Mountain Mine

Past Producer in Orange county in New York, United States with commodity Iron
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. Mining district
  9. Mineral rights holdings
  10. Land status
  11. Links to other databases
  12. Bibliographic references
  13. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10175122
MAS/MILS ID 0360710038
Record type Site
Current site name Mountain Mine
Alternate or previous names Patterson

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Ore Body
Geographic coordinates: -75.42991, 41.21 (WGS84)
Elevation 311

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Monroe(county)

Pennsylvania(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Tobyhanna(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Scranton(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Scranton(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Lehigh(hydrologic unit)

Upper Delaware(hydrologic accounting unit)

Delaware-Mid Atlantic Coastal(hydrologic subregion)

Mid Atlantic(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Tobyhanna Army Depot(Army Depot)

Army Depot ARMY(Type of land area)

ARMY(Federal land areas administered by ARMY)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States New York Orange

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Iron Tertiary

Nearby scientific data

Ore Body (1) -75.42991, 41.21

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Surface
Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No
Discovery year 1758
Year of first production 1831

Mining district

District name Sterling Lake

Mineral rights holdings

Type of mineral rights Fee Ownership
Type of mineral rights Unknown

Land status

Ownership category Private

Comments on the production information

  • PRODUCTION IS ESTIMATED AT 7000 TONS OF MAGNETITE ORE.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 25-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.