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Swayze Hematite 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 10082388
MRDS ID W055127
Record type Site
Current site name Swayze Hematite Mine
Alternate or previous names Osman Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -74.94043, 40.94028 (WGS84)
Elevation 165

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

  • INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1971)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Iron Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • IN 1877 100 TONS OF ORE WAS PRODUCED; IN 1880 550 TONS. MOST WAS WASH ORE

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Limonite Ore

Analytical data

Result 1877: FE 47.44%
Result MN .79%
Result P .19%
Result S .00%

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Metasedimentary Rock > Slate
    Rock unit name Martinsburg
    Rock description Martinsburg
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Ordovician
    Chronological age 360

Nearby scientific data

(1) -74.94043, 40.94028
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • Thickness 8.53M

Comments on the geologic information

  • SLATE IS ALTERED TO YELLOW OCHERY CLAY. PITS PASSED THROUGH AN UN ASSORTED DRIFT CONSISTING OF BLUE CLAYEY EARTH, GRAVEL, COBBLES AND BOULDERS

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1872
Discoverer Ziba Osman
Year of first production 1877
Year of last production 1882

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Joe Smith 1089 Madison Ave. Troy N. Y.

Comments on the workings information

  • PITS WERE BETWEEN 20 TO 50' DEEP BY 2 1/2' WIDE. SHAFT SE OF FARM HOUSE HAD TWO DRIFTS 20 AND 30 FEET LONG EAST AND WEST RESPECTIVELY. SOUTH SE OF SHAFT A PIT WAS DUG 50' DEEP. VISIBLE IN 1985 ARE TWO NARROW PITS 20 AND 30' LONG APPROX 8' DEEP ALONG WITH SIGNS OF EARTH MOVEMENT NORTH AND EAST OF THEM

Comments on development

  • ZIBA OSMAN DID FIRST WORK IN 1872. A.J. SWAYZE OPENED MINE IN 1877

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 58-59

  • Deposit

    COOK, GEO. H., 1877, ANNUAL REPORT OF THE STATE GEOLOGIST FOR THE YEAR 1877, PP 50-52

  • Deposit

    FIELD CHECKED 1985

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit ORE OCCURED IN SLATE AREA WAS PROBABLY OVERLAIN BY KITTATINY LIMESTONE WHICH HAS NOW ERODED

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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