Mt. Olive Mines

Past Producer in Morris 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. Mining district
  9. Mineral rights holdings
  10. Land status
  11. Links to other databases
  12. Bibliographic references
  13. General comments
  14. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10198750
MAS/MILS ID 0340270067
Record type Site
Current site name Mt. Olive Mines
Alternate or previous names Salmon, Osborne, Church, Hilt, Ho, Stephens, Drake, Mt. Olive,, Pler

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Ore Body
Geographic coordinates: -74.71379, 40.86 (WGS84)
Elevation 302
Location accuracy 1000(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Morris(county)

New Jersey(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Chester(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Newark(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Newark(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Raritan(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 Morris

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Iron Tertiary

Nearby scientific data

Ore Body (1) -74.71379, 40.86

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Surface-Underground
Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Mount Olive

Mineral rights holdings

Type of mineral rights Fee Ownership
Type of mineral rights Unknown

Land status

Ownership category Private

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    WAR MINERALS REPORT 91.550, 1945, 20 P.

  • Deposit

    N.J.GEOL.SURVEY, FINAL REPORT, V.7, 1910, PP 326-330.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit THE VARIOUS MINES OF THE MT.OLIVE DISTRICT WERE MINED AT DIF TIMES FROM BEFORE THE REVOLUTION TO 1908. THE TOTAL PRODUCTI ALL THE MINES IN THIS DISTRICT IS ESTIMATED TO BE ABOUT 1000 OF MAGNETITE ORE. FROM 1941 TO 1943 SEVERAL MINING COMPANIES DIAMOND DRILLING TO EXPLORE THIS AREA. RESULTS DISCLOSED LIT PROSPECT OF OPERATING A LARGE OPEN PIT. NO ESTIMATE OF RESER AVAILABLE, BUT IT IS POSSIBLE THAT THERE ARE ORE BODIES OF M SIZE HERE. THERE ARE 2 BELTS OF MAGNETIC ATTRACTION. BOTH TREND NE-SW. ARE ROUGHLY 1 MILE APART. THE LOCATION ON REC.030 IS FOR THE SALMON MINE, WHICH ROUGHL DIVIDES THE NORTHERNMOST BELT OF MAGNETIC ATTRACTION.

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.