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Mount Olive Mines

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. Controls for ore emplacement
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Land status
  13. Ownership information
  14. Workings at the site
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. General comments
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10082456
MRDS ID W055198
Record type Site
Current site name Mount Olive Mines

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -74.7332, 40.845 (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

Chester(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Newark(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Newark(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Raritan(hydrologic unit)

Lower Hudson(hydrologic accounting unit)

Lower Hudson-Long Island(hydrologic subregion)

Mid Atlantic(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States New Jersey Morris

Comments on the location information

  • NEW HOMES BEING BUILT IN AREA. MINE WORKING WILL NOT BE VISABLE SOON ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1970)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Iron Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • BY 1880 22,400 TONS OF ORE WAS REMOVED

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Magnetite Ore

Analytical data

Result 1880: FE 58.92%, S 1.96%, P 0.182%

Host and associated rocks

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

Nearby scientific data

(1) -74.7332, 40.845
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form VEIN
    Dip SE
    Width 8.23M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Ore Contained Pyrite That Was Being Altered To Limonite By Downward Percolating H2o

Comments on the geologic information

  • MUCH PEGMATITE ASSOCIATED WITH THE ORE, ORE PROBABLY PARTLY MAGNET ITIC PEGMATITE

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Medium
Significant No
Discoverer Anthony A. Drake
Year of first production 1848
Year of last production 1886

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Mt. Olive Iron Co.

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 121.92M
    Overall depth 53.34M

Comments on the workings information

  • IN 1883 2 SHAFTS 100 FEET APART WERE OPERATED. MANY SHAFTS, ADITS AND DUMP PILES STILL VISABLE (1986)

Comments on development

  • MINE WAS RUN INTERMITTENTLY TILL 1886. ORIGINALLY OWNED BY SOLOMAN, DRAKE AND YEAGER. IN 1880 WAS LEASED BY THEIR HEIRS TO MT. OLIVE IRON CO. CLOSED MAY 1886

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 326-327

  • Deposit

    FIELD CHECKED 1986

  • Deposit

    KITCHELL, WILLIAM 1856, SECOND ANNUAL REPORT ON THE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF THE STATE OF NEW JERSEY FOR THE YEAR 1855; PP. 175-179

  • Deposit

    COOK, GEORGE H. 1884, GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF N.J., ANNUAL REPORT OF THE STATE GEOLOGIST FOR THE YEAR 1884; PG 97

  • Deposit

    COOK, GEORGE H. 1887, GSNJ, ANNUAL REPORT OF THE STATE GEOLOGIST FOR THE YEAR 1886; PG 148

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit SEVERAL VEINS, AVERAGED 5-6 FT WIDE BUT REACHED 27 FT WIDE IN PLACES

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUN-1986 Simonds, Raymond E. (Bell, Christy A.) New Jersey Bureau of Geology and Topography

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