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Sickles Mine

Past Producer in Sussex 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. 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 10102158
MRDS ID DE01083
Record type Site
Current site name Sickles Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -74.65153, 40.99917 (WGS84)
Elevation 296

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Sussex(county)

New Jersey(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Stanhope(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 Sussex

Comments on the location information

  • INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1970)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Iron Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • 4,000 TONS WERE REMOVED, OF WHICH 2,000 TONS WERE BESSEMER GRADE.

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Magnetite Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Ultramafic Intrusive Rock > Hornblendite
    Rock unit name Amphibolite
    Rock description Amphibolite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Precambrian
    Chronological age 1000000000
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic

Nearby scientific data

(1) -74.65153, 40.99917
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • Dip E ENE
    Width 3.66M

Comments on the geologic information

  • SOUTH EASTERN PIT IS RADIOACTIVE UP TO 400 CPS; HOT SPOTS UP TO 1000 CPS CAN BE FOUND.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Year of first production 1870
Year of last production 1882

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Sparta-Peapack Assoc.
    Home office Lp 31 North Shore Tr. Sparta, Nj. 07871.

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface
    Overall depth 9.14M
    Overall length 152.4M

Comments on the workings information

  • TWO PITS ARE STILL PRESENT, IN 1870-71 A SHAFT WAS UNK TO 30 FEET, A SECOND SHAFT 150 YARDS TO THE NE WAS SUNK; IN 1879 A NEW SHAFT WAS SUNK TO 60 FEET, 500 FT SW OF THE OLD MINE.

Comments on development

  • WORKED 1870-71 BY BETHLEHEM IRON CO., IN 1879-1880 BY BLOOMIS RIDGE IRON CO.

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.

  • Deposit

    FIELD CHECKED 1987.

  • Deposit

    COOK, GEORGE H., 1873 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE STATE GEOLOGIST FOR THE YEAR 1873.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit MAGNETITE AND FEDLDSPAR MAKES UP THE ORE; SOMETIMES VERY COARSE.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUN-1987 Kaeding, Margaret E. (Bell, Christy A.) New Jersey Bureau of Geology and Topography

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