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Shilott Mine

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. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10082387
MRDS ID W055126
Record type Site
Current site name Shilott Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -74.94321, 40.90917 (WGS84)
Elevation 195
Relative position SOUTH OF INTERSECTION WITH DIRT ROAD

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

  • WESTERN FOOT OF THE JENNY JUMP MOUNTAIN ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1971)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Iron Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Limonite 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) -74.94321, 40.90917
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Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • ORE WAS FOUND AT CONTACT OF GNEISS AND LIMESTONE

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Mr. Burdge Owner Of Property In 1873
  • Type Owner
    Owner Raymond Lake Box 124 Hope, N. J.

Comments on the workings information

  • WORKINGS CONSISTED OF A NUMBER OF TEST PITS. 1 PIT VISIBLE BY ROAD 10 FOOT DIAMETER 2 FEET DEEP. A SECOND PIT 4 FOOT IN DIAMETER MOSTLY FILLED IS 1/4 MILE UP DIRT ROAD ON SE SIDE (1985)

Comments on development

  • LIMONITE WAS FOUND IN TEST PITS BUT NO WORKABLE AMOUNT

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; PG 58

  • Deposit

    COOK, GEO. H., 1873, ANNUAL REPORT OF THE STATE GEOLOGIST, FOR THE YEAR 1873, PG 89

  • Deposit

    FIELD CHECKED 1985

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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