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Deats Mine

Past Producer in Warren 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. Geologic structures
  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 10082346
MRDS ID W055076
Record type Site
Current site name Deats Mine
Alternate or previous names Dietz Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -74.96127, 40.87444 (WGS84)
Elevation 186

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Warren(county)

New Jersey(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Washington(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Newark(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

  • PART OF JENNY JUMP BELT; ON RIDGE THAT IS EAST OF STREAM ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1971)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Iron Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Magnetite Ore
Calcite Gangue
Mica Gangue
Pyrite Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone
    Rock unit name Franklin
    Rock description Franklin
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Precambrian
    Chronological age 1000000000

Nearby scientific data

(1) -74.96127, 40.87444
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Some Limestone Is Cut By Dikes Of Gabbroitic Rock

Comments on the geologic information

  • IMPURE LIMESTONE ON DUMP CONTAINS DARK MICA AND OTHER SILICATES CHARACTERISTIC OF ROCK WITH CLOSE CONTACT WITH BASIC INTRUSIVES

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Year of first production 1873
Year of last production 1883

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Belvidere Iron Co.
    First year 1882
  • Type Owner
    Owner Carl Cummins
    Home office Box 235 Great Meadows, Nj

Comments on the workings information

  • MINE WAS OPENED WITH A SHAFT 22' DEEP. A TRENCH 200' WEST OF THE SHAFT WAS DUG SOON AFTER. 2 SHAFTS LARGEST 10' DIAMETER WITH EARTH MOUNDS THAT COULD HAVE BEEN A TRENCH ARE STILL VISIBLE (1985)

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; PP. 214-215

  • Deposit

    FIELD CHECKED 1985

  • Deposit

    COOK, GEO. H. 1882, ANNUAL REPORT OF THE STATE GEOLOGIST, FOR THE YEAR 1882, PG .73

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit ORIGINAL DEPOSIT WAS COMPOSED OF MAGNETITE AND HORNBLENDE. LATER ORES WERE MAGNETITIC GNEISS; CALCITE IN HANGING WALL; SOME PYRITE NODULES THROUGH ROCK

Reporter information

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

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