Queen Mine

Past Producer in Warren county in New Jersey, United States with commodity Iron
Sections on this page
  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Nearby scientific data
  7. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  8. Mineral rights holdings
  9. Land status
  10. Ownership information
  11. Links to other databases
  12. Bibliographic references
  13. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10150317
MAS/MILS ID 0340410028
Record type Site
Current site name Queen Mine
Alternate or previous names Belvidere

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Ore Body
Geographic coordinates: -75.0202, 40.8119 (WGS84)
Elevation 183
Location accuracy 1000(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Warren(county)

New Jersey(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Belvidere(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Allentown(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 Warren

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Iron Tertiary

Nearby scientific data

Ore Body (1) Microperthite Alaskite

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Surface-Underground
Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No
Year of first production 1882

Mineral rights holdings

Type of mineral rights Fee Ownership
Type of mineral rights Unknown

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner R. E. Shellenburger
    Home office New Jersey
    Year 1944

Comments on the production information

  • PRODUCTION IS ESTIMATED AT 100000 TONS OF MAGNETITE ORE, THO MORE WAS PROBABLY MINED. ACCORDING TO REF 701, A DIP-NEEDLE MADE IN 1944 DISCLOSED A REASONABLE LARGE OREBODY HERE, BUT ESTIMATE OF RESERVE TONNAGE WAS GIVEN.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    USGS BULLETIN 920, 1941, P 67.

  • Deposit

    WAR MINERALS MEMORANDUM, REGIONAL FILE NO.E-1286, 1944, 6 PP

  • Deposit

    N.J.GEOL.SURVEY, FINAL REPORT, V.7, 1910, PP 208, 209.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 02-NOV-83 Eastern Field Operations Center (EFOC) U.S. Bureau of Mines

Beyond USGS

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