Ref.: New Jersey State Geologist's Annual Reports: (1868): 596; (1873): 43; (1879): 54; (1880): 106; (1883): 106; (1899): 161; (1900): 206; (1906): 176.
Bayley (1910) The Iron Mines of New Jersey: 11, 365.
Williams, R.L. (1967) Reconnaissance of Yttrium and Rare Earth Resources in Northern New Jersey, U.S. Department of the Interior Bureau of Mines Report of Investigation (ROI) #6885: 15-22.
Speiser, Robert (1978) A Quest for New Jersey Minerals: 11.
Rutgers University Bull. #5, Pt 1: 43.
A major New Jersey iron mine in magnetite ore located in the small borough of Mine Hill, near Dover. Started before 1868 and worked until 1873 but reopened for a few months in 1880, then the summer of 1881, 1899 and finally in 1905. Ore is hosted in a perthite-oligoclase granite. Much drilling and analyses were performed in conjunction with the ROI # 6885 research.
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