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Little York Quarry

Past Producer in Hunterdon county in New Jersey, United States with commodities Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken
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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. Workings at the site
  14. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. General comments
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10082468
MRDS ID W055214
Record type Site
Current site name Little York Quarry

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -75.09154, 40.60834 (WGS84)
Elevation 128
Relative position APPROX. 500' EAST OF FARM HOUSE

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Hunterdon(county)

New Jersey(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Frenchtown(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Allentown(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 Hunterdon

Comments on the location information

  • INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1970)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Limestone, General Primary
Stone, Crushed/Broken Tertiary

Comments on the commodity information

  • LIMESTONE WAS BURNED ON SITE AND USED AS FERTILIZER

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Orthoclase Gangue
Pyrite Gangue
Quartz Gangue
Serpentine Gangue
Shale Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone
    Rock unit name Kittatinny;Martinsburg
    Rock description Kittatinny;Martinsburg

Nearby scientific data

(1) Leithsville Formation
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR
    Length 87.49M
    Width 7.62M

Comments on the geologic information

  • MARTINSBURG SHALE IS HIGHLY METAMORPHOSED WHOSE APPEARANCE IS A DARK GRAY SCHISTIC ROCK OVERLYING THE LIMESTONE IN PLACES

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Non-metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Year of first production 1870
Year of last production 1947

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Guarantee Land Imp. Co.
    Home office Hampton, N.J.

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface
    Area 1.214HA

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    JOHNSON, M., 10-11-47, NEW JERSEY GEOLOGICAL SURVEY'S PERMANENT NOTES, ON FILE AT NJGS, TRENTON

  • Deposit

    FIELD CHECKED 1985

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit TWO QUARRY PITS WITH ONE, TWO BAY LIME KILN NORTH OF LARGEST AND WEST OF SMALLER PIT.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-SEP-1985 Simonds, Raymond E. (Bell, Christy A.) New Jersey Bureau of Geology and Topography

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