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Garrison Farm

Occurrence 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. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  10. Land status
  11. Ownership information
  12. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. General comments
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10082380
MRDS ID W055119
Record type Site
Current site name Garrison Farm

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -74.90099, 40.92389 (WGS84)
Elevation 247

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

  • PART OF JENNY JUMP STATE FOREST ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1971)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Iron Primary

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) -74.90099, 40.92389
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Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Year of first production 1858
Year of last production 1882

Land status

Ownership category State Forest

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Scranton And Humphreys On Farm Of Robert L. Garrison
    First year 1881
  • Type Owner
    Owner State Of New Jersey
    Home office New Jersey

Comments on the workings information

  • (1985) ONE SHAFT APPROX. 12 FEET IN DIAMETER, WATER FILLED WITH SEEMINGLY GOOD DEPTH FOUND. GOOD ORE FOUND SURROUNDING SHAFT

Comments on development

  • OPENED ABOUT 1858, IN 1881 WAS RE-EXPLORED BY AN ADIT OR CUT, NOTHING IS KNOWN ABOUT PRODUCTION

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 238

  • Deposit

    FIELD CHECKED 1985

  • Deposit

    COOK, GEORGE H. 1881, ANNUAL REPORT OF THE STATE GEOLOGIST FOR THE YEAR 1881, PP 37-38

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit BED OF ORE 15 FEET WIDE ON SURFACE FOUND IN 1881. GOOD FOOT WALL BUT NO HANGING WALL HAD BEEN REACHED IN THAT YEAR

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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