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Cokesbury Mine

Past Producer in Hunterdon 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 10082497
MRDS ID W055249
Record type Site
Current site name Cokesbury Mine
Alternate or previous names Cokesburg Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -74.83516, 40.68389 (WGS84)
Elevation 171

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Hunterdon(county)

New Jersey(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Califon(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 Hunterdon

Comments on the location information

  • NO TRACE OF MINE FOUND ONLY PILES OF WASTE ROCK WITH A LITTLE ORE (1985) ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1970)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Iron Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • ORE WAS VERY MUCH LIKED BY FURNACE MEN AND COMMANDED THE HIGHEST MARKET

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Magnetite Ore

Analytical data

Result ORE WAS VERY RICH WITH ONLY TRACES OF SULPHUR

Host and associated rocks

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

Nearby scientific data

(1) -74.83516, 40.68389
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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 1776
Year of last production 1873

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Union Iron Co.
    First year 1872
  • Type Owner
    Owner David Jeffrey Rd 2 Lebanon, Nj

Comments on the workings information

  • VEIN WAS SO SMALL AND THE QUALITY OF WATER TO BE PUMPED SO GREAT, THAT THE MINING BECAME UNPROFITABLE

Comments on development

  • CLOSED SHORTLY AFTER REVOLUTION; REOPENED 1863 BY HUMMER, LARGE AND CONOVER, AND AFTERWARDS BY UNION IRON COMPANY

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 424

  • Deposit

    FIELD CHECKED 1985

  • Deposit

    COOK, GEO. H. 1873, ANNUAL REPORT OF THE STATE GEOLOGIST, FOR THE YEAR 1873; PP 29-30

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit VEIN WAS ONLY FROM 10 INCHES TO 2 FEET WIDE

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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