Sugar Hill Mine

Past Producer in Grafton county in New Hampshire, United States with commodities Iron, Tungsten
Sections on this page
  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Nearby scientific data
  7. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  8. Land status
  9. Ownership information
  10. Links to other databases
  11. Bibliographic references
  12. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10126029
MAS/MILS ID 0330090121
Record type Site
Current site name Sugar Hill Mine
Alternate or previous names Franconia Iron Mine

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Ore Body
Geographic coordinates: -71.78977, 44.19636 (WGS84)
Elevation 543

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Grafton(county)

New Hampshire(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Sugar Hill(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Mount Washington(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Lewiston(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Headwaters Connecticut River(hydrologic unit)

Upper Connecticut(hydrologic accounting unit)

Connecticut(hydrologic subregion)

New England(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States New Hampshire Grafton

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Iron Primary
Tungsten Critical Tertiary

Nearby scientific data

Ore Body (1) Bethlehem Granodiorite

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Surface
Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Mrs. George H. Wales
    Year 1949

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    HOUK,L.G., 1949, W.M.M. ER-91.1719 FRANCONIA IRON MINE

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 02-NOV-1983 Eastern Field Operations Center (EFOC) U.S. Bureau of Mines

Beyond USGS

Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.