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Creamer Mine

Past Producer in Morris 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 10082419
MRDS ID W055158
Record type Site
Current site name Creamer Mine
Alternate or previous names Cramer Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -74.79403, 40.86 (WGS84)
Elevation 308

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Morris(county)

New Jersey(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Hackettstown(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 Morris

Comments on the location information

  • HOUSES NOW COVER SITE ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1971)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Iron Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • ORE WAS RICH BUT MOST MINED HAD CONCIDERABLE ROCK WITH IT

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Magnetite Ore

Analytical data

Result 1877: 62.23% FE
Result TIO2 9.80%
Result P .14%

Host and associated rocks

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

Nearby scientific data

(1) -74.79403, 40.86
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • Dip NW TO VERTICAL

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Year of first production 1854
Year of last production 1875

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner City Financial Sav. And Loan Assoc. 220 Centennial Ave. Piscataway Nj

Comments on the workings information

  • 3 MAIN SHAFTS ON A NE AND SW LINE; ONE SHAFT WAS 80 FEET DEEP, ONE 50 FEET AND THE OTHER 30 FEET.

Comments on development

  • WORKED IN 1854 FOR A FORGE NEAR HACKETTSTOWN. WORKED AGAIN IN 1873-1875

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 286

  • Deposit

    FIELD CHECKED 1985

  • Deposit

    COOK, GEO. H. 1879, ANNUAL REPORT OF THE STATE GEOLOGIST, FOR THE YEAR 1880; PG 70

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit ORE DIPS NW AT SURFACE BUT AT GREATER DEPTH IT WAS VERTICAL AND A BOTTOM OF SHAFTS IT DIPPED SE

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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