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Glendon 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. Ownership information
  12. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. General comments
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10106389
MRDS ID W055227
Record type Site
Current site name Glendon Mine
Alternate or previous names Chapin Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -74.76265, 40.96083 (WGS84)
Elevation 198

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Sussex(county)

New Jersey(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Tranquility(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

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Iron Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • ORE IS MAGNETITE IN CALCITE; PROBABLY NOT MUCH ORE WAS MINED

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Magnetite Ore
Garnet Gangue
Hornblende Gangue
Marble Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone
    Rock unit name Franklin
    Rock description Franklin
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Precambrian
    Chronological age 1000000000

Nearby scientific data

(1) -74.76265, 40.96083
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR

Comments on the geologic information

  • CHARACTER OF THE ORE SEEMED TO BE DUE TO THE ACTION OF THE BASIC I GNEOUS ROCK, WHICH IS EVIDENTLY INTRUSIVE

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Year of first production 1850
Year of last production 1868

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Glendon Iron Co.

Comments on the workings information

  • BY 1868 FOUR SHAFTS HAD BEEN SUNK, ONE TO 70 FEET. IN 1984 A LARGE OPEN PIT WITH A SHAFT AT ITS SOUTHERN END WAS VISIBLE

Comments on development

  • OPENED BY DANIEL CHAPIN OF SPARTA, BY 1855 WAS OWNED AND WORKED BY THE GLENDON IRON COMPANY UP TO ABOUT 1868

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 220

  • Deposit

    FIELD CHECKED 1984

  • Deposit

    KITCHELL, WILLIAM 1856, SECOND ANNUAL REPORT ON THE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF THE STATE OF NEW JERSEY, FOR THE YEAR 1855; PG 163

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit REPORTEDLY MANGANIFEROUS. ORE ASSOCIATED WITH PEGMATITE AND SCAPOLITIC DIORITE

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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