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Copper from
Chimney Rock Quarry (Houdaille Industries Quarry; The Bound Brook Quarry; Stavola Industries Quarry), Bridgewater Township, Somerset Co., New Jersey, USA


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Chimney Rock Quarry (Houdaille Industries Quarry; The Bound Brook Quarry; Stavola Industries Quarry), Bridgewater Township, Somerset Co., New Jersey, USA
© 2007 FAI III
Description
Comments:Masses of native copper to several hundred pounds retrieved in recent years (exhibited at the Sterling Hill Mining Museum, Ogdensburg, NJ).

Most of the copper occurs not in the basalt but in a zone of darkened, hydrothermally altered mudrock, about 18 inches thick,immediately beneath the basal contact of the basalt.
Quality of samples:not specified / average specimens
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
References
References:A Quest for New Jersey Minerals (1978), Speiser, R.:14; NJ State Geol. Ann. Rpt. (1906):147.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Copper data
Locality Data:Click here to view Chimney Rock Quarry (Houdaille Industries Quarry; The Bound Brook Quarry; Stavola Industries Quarry), Bridgewater Township, Somerset Co., New Jersey, USA
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