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Willever Quarry

Past Producer in Warren county in New Jersey, United States with commodity Limestone, General
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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 10082317
MRDS ID W055040
Record type Site
Current site name Willever Quarry

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -75.06016, 40.67444 (WGS84)
Elevation 104

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Warren(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)

Middle Delaware-Musconetcong(hydrologic unit)

Upper Delaware(hydrologic accounting unit)

Delaware-Mid Atlantic Coastal(hydrologic subregion)

Mid Atlantic(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States New Jersey Warren

Comments on the location information

  • QUARRY LOCATED ON "LIME KILN ROAD" ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1970)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Limestone, General Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Limestone Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone
    Rock unit name Beekmantown Formation
    Rock description Beekmantown

Nearby scientific data

(1) -75.06016, 40.67444
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • Strike N 53 E
    Dip 40

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Non-metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Year of first production 1914
Year of last production 1914

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Hazlet, Phillip
    First year 1914
  • Type Owner
    Owner Elaine Redmond Rd1 Bloomsbury, Nj

Comments on development

  • IN 1914 WAS PRODUCING APPOX 4000 BUSHELS OF LIME A MONTH USING THE FOUR KILNS ON PROPERTY

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    UNKNOWN AUTHOR. 1914, NEW JERSEY GEOLOGICAL SURVEY'S PERMENANT NOTES, ON FILE AT NJGS, TRENTON

  • Deposit

    FIELD CHECKED 1985

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit KILNS ARE STILL STANDING BUT QUARRY IS OVERGROWN WITH LITTLE BEDROCK PRESENT (1985) ; INFO.SRC : 2 UNPUB REPT; 3 FIELD OBSERV

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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