Stanhope Mine

Past Producer in Sussex 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. General comments
  14. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10271538
MAS/MILS ID 0340370034
Record type Site
Current site name Stanhope Mine
Alternate or previous names Hude

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Ore Body
Geographic coordinates: -74.71539, 40.9172 (WGS84)
Elevation 283
Location accuracy 1000(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Sussex(county)

New Jersey(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Stanhope(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 Tertiary

Nearby scientific data

Ore Body (1) -74.71539, 40.9172

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 1790

Mineral rights holdings

Type of mineral rights Fee Ownership
Type of mineral rights Unknown

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Warren Foundry And Pipe Co.
    Home office New Jersey
    Year 1976
  • Type Owner
    Owner Kurt Frietzche And Max Herman
    Home office New Jersey
    Year 1976

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    WAR MINERALS MEMORANDUM 91.1444, 1945, 6 P.

  • Deposit

    N.J.GEOL.SURVEY, FINAL REPORT, V.7, 1910, PP 287-289.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit A COMMENT AT THE END OF REF.700 ESTIMATES PRODUCTION AT 5000 THE 1944 DIP-NEEDLE SURVEY INDICATED A VERY ERATIC DEPOSIT.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 02-NOV-1983 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.