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Great Meadow Marble

Past Producer in Warren county in New Jersey, United States with commodity Stone, Dimension
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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 10082377
MRDS ID W055116
Record type Site
Current site name Great Meadow Marble

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -74.93543, 40.88556 (WGS84)
Elevation 189

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Warren(county)

New Jersey(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Blairstown(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

  • AT JUNCTION OF THE HOPE ROAD AND SHADES OF DEATH ROAD ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1971)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Stone, Dimension Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • STONE TOOK A BEAUTIFUL POLISH AND WAS USED FOR INTERIOR DECORATION OF PUBLIC BUILDINGS IN PHILADELPHIA

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Marble Ore

Analytical data

Result CALCITE 85% DOLOMITE 2% DIOPSIDE 5% PHLOGOPITE 8%

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Metasedimentary Rock > Marble
    Rock unit name Franklin
    Rock description Franklin

Nearby scientific data

(1) -74.93543, 40.88556
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • Dip 80 N 75 W
    Length 54.68M
    Width 15.24M
    Depth to bottom 7.62M

Comments on the geologic information

  • THE MARBLE IS COMPOSED OF COARSE-GRAINED PINK & WHITE CALCITE WITH PHLOGOPITE, DIOPSIDE AND OCCASIONAL BLACK TOURMALINE

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Non-metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Year of first production 1872
Year of last production 1903

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Tom Pasko Box 339 Great Meadows, Nj

Comments on the workings information

  • IN 1872 THERE WERE TWO OPENINGS. MOST BLOCKS MEASURED 8' X 3' X 2'; 1985 SOME BOULDERS REMAIN

Comments on development

  • A LARGE NUMBER OF BLOCKS WERE HAULED 7 MILES BY WAGON, AROUND 1872, TO HACKETTSTOWN TO BE SHIPPED BY RAIL TO PHILADELPHIA

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    LEWIS, J.V. 1909, BUILDING STONES OF NEW JERSEY; ANNUAL REPORT OF THE STATE GEOLOGIST FOR THE YEAR 1908; PP. 111-113

  • Deposit

    COOK, GEO. H. 1872, ANNUAL REPORT OF THE STATE GEOLOGIST OF NEW JERSEY, FOR THE YEAR 1872; PP 27-28

  • Deposit

    FIELD CHECKED 1985

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit BEDS EXPOSED MEASURED 30 FEET ACROSS THE STRIKE

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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