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Winter Mine

Past Producer in Morris county in New Jersey, United States with commodity Iron
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  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Materials information
  7. Host and associated rocks
  8. Nearby scientific data
  9. Ore body information
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Land status
  12. Ownership information
  13. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. General comments
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10082307
MRDS ID W055028
Record type Site
Current site name Winter Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -74.48458, 41.00083 (WGS84)
Elevation 293

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Morris(county)

New Jersey(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Newfoundland(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Middletown(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Scranton(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Hackensack-Passaic(hydrologic unit)

Lower Hudson(hydrologic accounting unit)

Lower Hudson-Long Island(hydrologic subregion)

Mid Atlantic(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States New Jersey Morris

Comments on the location information

  • INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1971)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Iron Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • ORE COARSELY CYRSTALLINE; TOTAL PRODUCTION APPROX 10,000 TONS

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Magnetite Ore
Limonite Gangue

Analytical data

Result 65% FE

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Gneiss
    Rock unit name Quartz Oligoclase Gneiss
    Rock description Quartz Oligoclase Gneiss
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Precambrian
    Chronological age 1000000000

Nearby scientific data

(1) -74.48458, 41.00083
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form LENSE
    Thickness 3.66M

Comments on the geologic information

  • BIOTITE AMPHIBOLITE VEIN FOUND NEARBY

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Year of first production 1882
Year of last production 1885

Land status

Ownership category Military Reservation

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Mutual Iron Co.
  • Type Owner
    Owner Picatinny Arsenal; Military Reservation

Comments on the workings information

  • 3 SHAFTS AND A FEW SMALL PITS

Comments on development

  • IN 1886 SAID TO BE FLOODED. 2 SHAFTS WORKED IN 1885. THE "ENGINE SHAFT" WAS 75 FEET DEEP, WITH A 30 FOOT DRIFT TO NE INTO A 3 FOOT ORE BODY. THE "NEW SHAFT" WAS 30 FEET DEEP INTO 10 FOOT THICK ORE.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    BAYLEY, WILLIAM S., 1910. IRON MINES AND MINING IN NEW JERSEY, VOL. VII OF THE FINAL REPORT SERIES OF THE STATE GEOLOGIST;

  • Deposit

    FIELD CHECKED 1986

  • Deposit

    STATE OF NEW JERSEY DEPT. OF LABOR AND INDUSTRY, 1978. ABANDONED IRON MINES OF ROCKAWAY TOWNSHIP, MORRIS COUNTY NEW JERSEY

  • Deposit

    COOK, GEORGE H., 1886. ANNUAL REPORT OF THE STATE GEOLOGIST FOR THE YEAR 1886

  • Deposit

    COOK, GEORGE H., 1885. ANNUAL REPORT OF THE STATE GEOLOGIST FOR THE YEAR 1885

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit DEPOSIT ON A COMPLEX SYNCLINE; ORE REPLACES LAYERED HORNBLENDE-PYROXENE SKARN; LOCAL PEGMATITE BODIES

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-DEC-1986 Kaeding, Margaret E. (Bell, Christy A.) New Jersey Bureau of Geology and Topography

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