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Main's Quarry

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

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10106388
MRDS ID W055223
Record type Site
Current site name Main's Quarry

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -74.89266, 41.03722 (WGS84)
Elevation 183
Location accuracy 100(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Sussex(county)

New Jersey(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Flatbrookville(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Middletown(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Scranton(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 :(1971)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Stone, Crushed/Broken Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • LIME WAS BURNED AT KILNS ON SITE

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Limestone Ore

Analytical data

Result LIMESTONE WAS NEARLY 98% CARBONATE OF LIME

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone
    Rock unit name Jacksonburg
    Rock description Jacksonburg
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Ordovician
    Chronological age 360

Nearby scientific data

(1) -74.89266, 41.03722
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form LAYERS

Comments on the geologic information

  • LOWEST BEDS WERE ONLY A FEW FEET FROM MAGNESIAN LIMESTONE AND THINLY BEDDED SHALE

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Non-metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Year of first production 1852
Year of last production 1929

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Main Family

Comments on the workings information

  • NO QUARRIES EVIDENT SINCE 1955 ONLY KILNS ARE EVIDENT. 2 QUARRIES WERE OPERATED HERE

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    COOK, GEORGE, H. 1868, GEOLOGY OF NEW JERSEY, PG 398

  • Deposit

    KUMMEL, HENRY B. 1901, REPORT ON PORTLAND CEMENT INDUSTRY, IN ANNUAL REPORT OF THE STATE GEOLOGIST FOR THE YEAR 1900, PP 58-59

  • Deposit

    NJGS PERMANENT NOTES 1929, 1955, ON FILE AT NJGS, TRENTON, NJ

  • Deposit

    FIELD CHECKED 1986

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUN-86 Simonds, Raymond E. (Bell, Christy A.) New Jersey Bureau of Geology and Topography

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