Mine detail: Menlo Park Mine

Previously called 'Edison Mine'

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Location

Lat / long:

40.56444, -74.33319

Resource(M)

Primary:	Copper
Ore:	Chrysocolla
Discovery year:	1784

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Production size:	Small
Development status:	Past Producer
First production started:	1784
Last production ended:	1903

Geology

Host type:	Shale
Tectonic:	Newark Rift Basin

References

MRDS	W044257
DEP	10100287
Reference	WOODWARD, H.P., 1944, COPPER MINES AND MINING IN NEW JERSEY, DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT, STATE OF NEW JERSEY, BULL. 5
Reporter	Master, Julian A. (Bell, Christy A.)