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Marble Lime Rock Quarries No. Fj-025

Past Producer in Litchfield county in Connecticut, United States with commodity Stone
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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. Controls for ore emplacement
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Mining district
  12. Workings at the site
  13. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. General comments
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10105479
MRDS ID W000597
Record type Site
Current site name Marble Lime Rock Quarries No. Fj-025
Related records 10240383

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -73.44288, 41.59693 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Litchfield(county)

Connecticut(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

New Milford(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Waterbury(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Hartford(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Housatonic(hydrologic unit)

Connecticut Coastal(hydrologic accounting unit)

Connecticut Coastal(hydrologic subregion)

New England(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Connecticut Litchfield

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Stone Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • INFORMATION LACKING. TOPO SHOWS MAIN WATER FILLED QUARRY AS 600 FEET LONG NORTH TO SOUTH, 200 FEET WIDE EAST TO WEST, WITH WORKING FACE MORE THAN 70 FEET TO THE EAST. TWO ADDITIONAL QUARRIES ARE LOCATED 1000 FEET EAST, AND 600 FEET SE. THE DRY EAST QUARRY IS 800 FEET LONG NORTH TO SOUTH, 200 FEET WIDE EAST TO WEST, AND ABOUT 40 FEET DEEP; THE DRY SOUTHEAST QUARRY IS ABOUT 250 FEET LONG NORTH TO SOUTH, 75 FEET WIDE, AND 50 FEET DEEP. MEDIUM TO COARSE GRAINED MARBLE, PARTLY CALCITIC, PARTLY DOLOMITIC. MINOR LAYERS OF MICA SCHIST IN CALCITIC MARBLE.

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Marble Ore
Calcite Gangue
Phlogopite Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Early Devonian
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Ordovician
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Metasedimentary Rock > Marble

Nearby scientific data

(1) -73.44288, 41.59693
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Economic information

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Metamorphosed Sedimentary Limestone Beds

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Non-metallic
Significant No
Production years UNKNOWN

Mining district

District name New Milford

Comments on the production information

  • INFORMATION LACKING. SIZE OF PITS INDICATES LARGE PRODUCTION OF MARBLE FOR AGRICULTURAL LIME.

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • INFORMATION LACKING. LARGE VOLUME OF ROCK SUITABLE FOR CONSTRUCTION STONE REMAINS.

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Unknown
    Overall length 182.88M
    Overall width 60.96M

Comments on development

  • TOTAL$: US

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    GREGORY, H. E., 1906, "GEOL. MAP CONN.", CONN. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY, BULL. NO. 7, TEXT

  • Production

    GREGORY, 1906

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit GREGORY'S MAP AT 1:250000 LOCATES QUARRY BY SYMBOL. USGS, TOPO, 1955, "NEW MILFORD", AT 1:24000 SHOWS QUARRIES BY TOPOGRAPHY. ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-AUG-1972 D'Agostino, John P. U.S. Geological Survey

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