Wagner & Duff Stone Quarry

Past Producer in Hudson county in New Jersey, United States with commodity Stone, Crushed/Broken
Sections on this page
  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. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10102177
MRDS ID DE01484
Record type Site
Current site name Wagner & Duff Stone Quarry

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -74.01651, 40.80083 (WGS84)
Elevation 9

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Hudson(county)

New Jersey(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Weehawken(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Newark(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Newark(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Hackensack-Passaic(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 Hudson

Comments on the location information

  • INFO FROM LAND.ST :(197?); 1:24000 QUADRANGLE MAP IS A 1967 EDITION

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Stone, Crushed/Broken Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Diabase Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite > Diabase
    Rock unit name Diabase
    Rock description Diabase
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Triassic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Triassic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Triassic

Nearby scientific data

(1) -74.01651, 40.80083

Economic information

Ore body information

  • Strike N35E
    Dip 11-15NW

Comments on the geologic information

  • TRAP IS FINE GRAINED, HARD AND DENSE. NOT AT ALL VESICULAR.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Non-metallic
Deposit size Large
Significant No
Year of first production 1895
Year of last production 1890

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Erie Lackawana Northern Railroad
    First year 1985

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    KUMMEL, H.B., 1895, NEW JERSEY GEOLOGICAL SURVEY'S PERMANENT NOTES AT NJGS IN TRENTON.

  • Deposit

    KUMMEL, H.B., 1897, THE NEWARK SYSTEM, IN GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF NEW JERSEY'S ANNUAL REPORT OF THE STATE GEOLOGIST FOR THE YEAR 1897.

Reporter information

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

Beyond USGS

Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.