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NJDEP - NJGS - First Annual Report of the Geological Survey of the ...

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39form <strong>of</strong>i.a large irregular deposit, from' sixty'to eighty f_et in"width_ and forms:<strong>the</strong>southwestern side <strong>of</strong> a hill ris!ng upwards'<strong>of</strong> one hundred and fifty feet above water level_ and fromwhich during ttm last seven years over one hundred andtwenty thousand tons <strong>of</strong> ore have been removed. The priaclp_lpart <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> ore is specular iron o_ different shades <strong>of</strong> red vgray and blue, and <strong>of</strong> various qu_dities. Its co!or i texture andlustre depend chiefly on <strong>the</strong> foreign materials with which it is" mingled, ainong which are carbo(mte <strong>of</strong> lime, alumifi_, silica,mdgnesih, mangandse_ and magnetic oxide <strong>of</strong> iron, The followingare <strong>the</strong> statements and.analyses which Mr: James C.Kent, <strong>the</strong> chemist <strong>of</strong> tile Trenton Iron Company, has, at myrequest, been" kind eriough.te furnish me :"OFFmE CooP_a IRON WO_XS,_ , . December 15, 1='54. ""The'Andover mines, sit_

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