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Wild Cat Mine

Occurrence in Hunterdon 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 10082313
MRDS ID W055036
Record type Site
Current site name Wild Cat Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -75.01404, 40.65778 (WGS84)
Elevation 291

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Hunterdon(county)

New Jersey(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Bloomsbury(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Allentown(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Newark(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Raritan(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 Hunterdon

Comments on the location information

  • NEW HOUSES BEING BUILT ON SITE, NO TRACE OF MINE CAN BE FOUND (1985) ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1970)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Iron Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • ORE WAS SHIPPED TO KEYSTONE FURNACE, PA

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Magnetite Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Gneiss
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Precambrian
    Chronological age 1000000000

Nearby scientific data

(1) -75.01404, 40.65778
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • Thickness 3.05M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Year of first production 1876
Year of last production 1880

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Hoffman, Theodore
    Home office Clinton, N.J.
    First year 1879

Comments on the workings information

  • IN 1879 MINE WAS OPERATING THROUGH A SHAFT 30' DEEP

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    BAYLEY, WILLIAM S., 1910, MINES AND MINING IN NEW JERSEY, VOL. VII OF THE FINAL REPORT SERIES OF THE STATE GEOLOGIST; PG 319

  • Deposit

    COOK, GEO. H. 1879, ANNUAL REPORT OF THE STATE GEOLOGIST, FOR THE YEAR 1879, PG 65

  • Deposit

    FIELD CHECKED 1985

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit VEIN CONSISTED OF TWO ORE LAYERS, ONE 4' WIDE, SEPERATED BY 2' OR 3' OF COUNTRY ROCK

Reporter information

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

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