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Colony, R.J. The Magnetite Iron Deposits of Southeastern New York. New York State Museum Bulletin, Albany, NY, 1923.
Cook, George H. Geology of New Jersey. Newark, NJ, 1868.
History of Morris County, New Jersey, with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of Prominent Citizens and Pioneers, New York, W.W. Munsell & Co., 1862.
Hotz, Preston E. Magnetite Deposits of the Sterling Lake, NY Ringwood, NJ Area. Geological Survey Bulletin 982-F, Washington, DC, 1953.
Johnson, Rodney P. Thomas Edison's "Ogden Baby", Highland Lakes, NJ, 2004.
Klemic, Harry; Heyl, A.V. Jr.; Taylor, A.R.; Stone, Jerome, Radioactive Rare-Earth Deposits at Scrub Oaks Mine, Morris County, NJ, Geological Survey Bulletin 1082-B, Washington, DC, 1959.
Klemic, Harry; Eric, John H.; McNitt, James R.; McKeown, Frank A., Uranium in Phillips Mine - Camp Smith Area, Putnam and Westchester Counties, New York, Washington, DC, 1959.
Lenik, Edward J. Iron Mine Trails. New York: New York-New Jersey Trail Conference, 1996.
Lowenthal, Larry, Iron Mine Railroads of Northern New Jersey, Tri-State Railway Historical Society, 1981.
Neumann, G.L. Diamond Drilling for Zinc Ore at Andover-Sulphur Hill Iron Mines Sussex County, N.J., Bureau of Mines Report of Investigations 4911, 1952.
Ransom, James M., Vanishing Ironworks of the Ramapos. New Brunswick, NJ, 1966.
Roche, H.M.; Crockett, R.E., "Iron-Ore Mining and Milling At Scrub Oak Part II," Engineering and Mining Journal, New York, NY, 1933.
Sims, P. K., Geology and Magnetite Deposits of Dover District, Morris County, NJ, Geological Survey Professional Paper 287, Washington, DC, 1958.
Sims, P.K.. Geology of the Dover Magnetite District, Morris County, NJ, Geological Survey Bulletin 982-G, Washington, DC, 1953.
Smock, John C. First Report of the Iron Mines and Iron Ore Districts in the State of New York: New York State Museum Bulletin 7, Albany, NY, 1889.
Sugrue, Francis "Ringwood's Iron Mine, Famous for Its Ghost And Revolutionary Cannon, Is Being Revived," New York Herald Tribune, July 7, 1947.
Vivian, C.H. "Mount Hope Mine Expands" Compressed Air Magazine, Volume 50, Number 3, New York, March 1945.


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