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Woosamonsa Prospect

Occurrence in Mercer county in New Jersey, United States with commodity Copper
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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 10082475
MRDS ID W055221
Record type Site
Current site name Woosamonsa Prospect

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -74.83571, 40.33807 (WGS84)
Elevation 58

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Mercer(county)

New Jersey(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Pennington(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Trenton(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 Mercer

Comments on the location information

  • INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1970)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • ORE MINERALS WERE INFREQUENTLY FOUND AT SITE. PREVIOUSLY, SITE REPORTED AS HAVING "TRACE OF COPPER" (KUMMEL, 1876)

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcocite Ore
Chrysocolla Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite > Diabase
    Rock unit name Pennington Mountain
    Rock description Pennington Mountain
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Metasedimentary Rock > Slate
    Rock unit name Brunswick
    Rock description Brunswick

Nearby scientific data

(1) -74.83571, 40.33807
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Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Year of first production 1896

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Cifelli, Anthony
    Home office Penn-Akors Cor Road, Pennington, Nj
    First year 1985

Comments on the workings information

  • TWO ENTRANCES WERE FOUND. THEY ARE PARTIALLY FILLED BUT NOT ENTIRELY. LENGTH OF EACH HOLE COULD NOT BE DETERMINED. SMALL PITS WERE ALSO FOUND BUT NO EVIDENCE OF TAILINGS OR EQUIPMENT

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    KUMMEL, H.B., 1896, NEW JERSEY GEOLOGICAL SURVEY'S PERMANENT NOTES, ON FILE NJGS, TRENTON

  • Deposit

    KUMMEL, H.B., MINING INDUSTRY OF NEW JERSEY; ANN. REPT. STATE GEOLOGIST OF NEW JERSEY FOR 1900; P. 213, 1901

  • Deposit

    WOODWARD, H.P., COPPER MINES AND MINING IN NEW JERSEY; BULLETIN 57, GEOLOGIC SERIES, DEPT. OF CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT, STATE OF NJ, 1944; P. 109

  • Deposit

    LEWIS, J.V., NEWARK (TRIASSIC) COPPER ORES IN NEW JERSEY; ANN. REPT. STATE GEOLOGIST OF NEW JERSEY FOR 1906; P. 155, 1907

  • Deposit

    FIELD CHECKED 1985

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-AUG-1985 Master, Julian A. (Bell, Christy A.) New Jersey Bureau of Geology and Topography

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