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Haggerty's Farm

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. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  10. Land status
  11. Ownership information
  12. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. General comments
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10082480
MRDS ID W055228
Record type Site
Current site name Haggerty's Farm
Alternate or previous names Haggerty's Farm Exploration

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -74.80098, 40.89611 (WGS84)
Elevation 287

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Warren(county)

New Jersey(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Tranquility(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

  • 100 TONS OF ORE WERE MINED

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Magnetite Ore

Analytical data

Result 1879: FE 58.55% P .33 S .05 TIO2 4.20

Host and associated rocks

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

Nearby scientific data

(1) -74.80098, 40.89611
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Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Year of first production 1874
Year of last production 1879

Land status

Ownership category State Forest

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner D. E. P. State Of New Jersey

Comments on the workings information

  • PROBABLY ONLY ONE SHAFT. IN 1984 AN ADIT APPROX. 20 FEET LONG, WATER FILLED, WAS EVIDENT

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 263

  • Deposit

    FIELD CHECKED 1984

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit ATTRACTRATION RAN NE. ORE RICH NEAR HANGING WALL BUT LEAN AND MIXED WITH QUARTZ, FELDSPAR AND HORNBLENDE NEAR FOOTWALL. PROBABLY A MAGNETIFEROUS PEGMATITE DIKE

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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