Crawford and Steele Mines

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. Ownership information
  12. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10175523
MAS/MILS ID 0360710030
Record type Site
Current site name Crawford and Steele Mines
Alternate or previous names Crawford, Steele

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Ore Body
Geographic coordinates: -74.26147, 41.1686 (WGS84)
Elevation 201

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Orange(county)

New York(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Greenwood Lake(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Middletown(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Scranton(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Hackensack-Passaic(hydrologic unit)

Lower Hudson(hydrologic accounting unit)

Lower Hudson-Long Island(hydrologic subregion)

Mid Atlantic(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States New York Orange

Comments on the location information

  • NOTE-THE LOCATION GIVEN ON REC.030 IS FOR CRAWFORD MINE. STE MINE IS 800 METERS TO THE SOUTH-SOUTH-WEST, AND IS A CONTINU OF THE SAME MINERALIZED ZONE. THE ORE IS MAGNETITE.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Iron Tertiary

Nearby scientific data

Ore Body (1) -74.26147, 41.1686

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Surface
Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No
Discovery year 1792

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

Ownership information

  • Type Unknown
    Owner Sterling Iron And Railway Co.
    Home office New York
    Year 1976

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.