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The Pahaquarry Copper Mine is an abandoned copper mine located on the west side of Kittatinny Mountain presently in Hardwick Township [2] in Warren County, New Jersey in the United States. Active mining was attempted for brief periods during the mid-eighteenth, mid-nineteenth, and early twentieth centuries but was never successful despite ...
The southern end starts near the Pahaquarry Copper Mine, in what was once Pahaquarry Township, now part of Hardwick Township. The northern end is at the intersection of Old Mine Road, County Route 521, and U.S. Route 206 in Montague Township. [5] It includes Early Republic, Late Victorian, and Early Colonial Dutch architecture. [5]
Opened in the 1750s, the Pahaquarry Copper Mine was active from the 18th to early-20th centuries, until its closure in 1928. [5] Despite developments in mining technology and improving mineral extraction methods, the mine remained unsuccessful and unprofitable, as the ore extracted proved to be of too low a concentration of copper. [6]
Also, no camps were ever found at the Pahaquarry Mine area. According to many maps drawn in the 18th century, including William Faden's map of 1778, no road is shown going south of Walpack Bend along the eastern side of the Delaware River to Pahaquarry. In 1830 a road was made through the Delaware Water Gap along the New Jersey side and then ...
Copper mining began in the 1750s at the Pahaquarry Copper Mine, which is 8 miles (13 km) north of the Gap, off Old Mine Road. [2] This mine is located in the Silurian High Falls Formation on the west side of the mountain. This sandstone is very hard and made mining very difficult.
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Panama will not allow Canada's First Quantum to expand the area of its existing copper mining operations, the deputy environment minister told Reuters, stressing the government's opposition to the ...
Millbrook, also known as Millbrook Village, is an unincorporated community located along Old Mine Road within Hardwick Township, formerly Pahaquarry Township, in Warren County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. [1] [2] It is named after the Mill Brook, now known as Van Campens Mill Brook, a tributary of the Delaware River.