Glidden-Durkee Titanium Mine (Glidden Mine; Nord Industries site), Van Hiseville, Jackson Township, Ocean County, New Jersey, USAi

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Glidden-Durkee Titanium Mine (Glidden Mine; Nord Industries site)	Mine
Van Hiseville	Hamlet
Jackson Township	Township
Ocean County	County
New Jersey	State
USA	Country

A former Ti occurrence/mine located 0.3 km (0.2 miles) NE of Legler. Opened 1962.

This facility was operated by the Glidden Paint Company for titania as paint pigment. The deposit is alluvial heavy minerals in quartz sand/gravel (Cohansey formation). It was subsequently known as the Nord Industries site. The site was a hazardous waste site regulated by the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection and the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission due to concentrates of radioactive monazite-(Ce) waste.

Regarding the host Cohansey Formation: Age: Middle Miocene, Serravallian. Sand, white to yellow with local gravel and clay. Locally stained red or orange brown by iron oxides and (or) cemented into large blocks of ironstone. Unweathered clay is typically dark gray, but commonly weathers white where interbedded with thin beds of ironstone. Unit is a complex of interfingering marine and nonmarine facies. Sand is typically medium grained and moderately sorted although it ranges from fine to very coarse grained and from poorly to well sorted. Sand consists of quartz and siliceous rock fragments. Some beds are locally micaceous, and in the Lakehurst area, Ocean County, some beds have high concentrations of "black" sand (pseudorutile) that was once extensively mined. In general, the sand is crossbedded, although the style of crossbedding varies significantly with the paleoenvironment. Trough crossbedding predominates, especially in the nonmarine channel fill deposits, and the scale of the crossbeds varies from small to large. In some areas, planar bedding is well developed in sections that have abundant marine burrows (mostly the clay-lined trace fossil Ophiomorpha nodosa). Such marine-influenced beds (largely foreshore deposits) occur on the central sheet west of Asbury Park, near Adelphia, Monmouth County, north of the Lakehurst Naval Air Station, Ocean County, and at Juliustown, Burlington County (Owens and Sohl, 1969), and on the southern sheet as far north as Salem, Salem County. Gravel beds occur locally, especially in updip areas such as near New Egypt, Ocean County, in the Atlantic Highlands and in the highlands west of Barnegat, Ocean County, in the southern part of the central sheet and in mixed marine and nonmarine facies in the northeastern part of the southern sheet where gravel occurs in well-defined channels. Most of the gravel is 1.3 to 2.5 cm (0.5-1.0 in) in diameter, but pieces as long as 10 cm (4 in) are present. The gravel is composed of quartz with small amounts of black chert and quartzite. Clay commonly occurs as discrete, thin, discontinuous beds, is dark gray where unweathered, white or red where weathered. Lesser, thin laminated clay strata also are present. Locally, as near Lakehurst, thick, dark-gray, very lignitic clay was uncovered during the mining of ilmenite and is informally called the Legler lignite (Rachele, 1976).[1]

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