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Beach Glen Mines (Beach Glenn Mine), Hibernia, Rockaway Township, Morris Co., New Jersey, USA

Photo: 2009 David S. Bernstein

Latitude: 40°55'N
Longitude: 74°28'W

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An iron mine in magnetite ore located about 1 mile SE of Hibernia. Started about 1808, restarted 1851 and again 1868-1875, 1879- Sep 1885, 1896, 1898-1900, and finally closed in 1903. Featured 3 shafts by 1900. Exploited 2 ore veins.

Mineral List

Albite
var: Oligoclase
'Apatite'

'Biotite'
'Feldspar Group'

Ferro-hornblende
Magnetite

Quartz
var: Blue Quartz
var: Rock Crystal

8 entries listed. 2 valid minerals.

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References

New Jersey State Geologist Annual Report: (1855): 228-230.

New Jersey State Geologist Annual Report: (1868): 554.

New Jersey State Geologist Annual Report: (1873): 47.

New Jersey State Geologist Annual Report: (1879): 57.

New Jersey State Geologist Annual Report: (1880): 108.

New Jersey State Geologist Annual Report: (1883): 118.

New Jersey State Geologist Annual Report: (1884): 91.

New Jersey State Geologist Annual Report: (1885): 104.

New Jersey State Geologist Annual Report: (1886): 136.

New Jersey State Geologist Annual Report: (1890): 104.

New Jersey State Geologist Annual Report: (1896): 330.

New Jersey State Geologist Annual Report: (1898): 237.

New Jersey State Geologist Annual Report: (1899): 155.

New Jersey State Geologist Annual Report: (1900): 201.

New Jersey State Geologist Annual Report: (1901): 144.

New Jersey State Geologist Annual Report: (1903): 105.

Bayley (1910), The Iron Mines of New Jersey: 469-471.

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