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Lanning 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. 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 10082348
MRDS ID W055079
Record type Site
Current site name Lanning Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -74.99599, 40.79333 (WGS84)
Elevation 221

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 OXFORD BELT, SOUTHERN MOST MINE ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1971)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Iron Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • YEILDED 12,000 TONS OF ORE, IN ITS TWO YEAR EXISTANCE

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Magnetite Ore
Feldspar Gangue

Analytical data

Result FE3O4 73.61% MNO .635% CAO 4.82% S .265%

Host and associated rocks

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

Nearby scientific data

(1) -74.99599, 40.79333
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • Length 45.72M
    Width 4.57M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Year of first production 1881
Year of last production 1883

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Oxford Iron Co.
    First year 1883
  • Type Owner
    Owner Eugenia Schultheis 49 Mine Hill Rd Oxford, N. J.

Comments on the workings information

  • NO RECORD OF SHAFT SIZE, 1985 A LONG TRENCH 50 YDS LONG IS VISIBLE THAT IS NOW A WASTE DUMP. A HIGH GRADE ORE CAN BE FOUND ALONG WITH FELDSPAR GNEISS

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 244-245

  • Deposit

    FIELD CHECKED 1985

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit DEPOSIT WAS 150 FT LONG AND FROM 2 TO 15 FEET WIDE AND APPEARS TO HAVE BEEN ISOLATED

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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