Daniel Steckles Mine

Past Producer in Lehigh county in Pennsylvania, 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. Mineral rights holdings
  9. Land status
  10. Links to other databases
  11. Bibliographic references
  12. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10250432
MAS/MILS ID 0420770026
Record type Site
Current site name Daniel Steckles Mine
Alternate or previous names No. 188

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Trench
Geographic coordinates: -75.54792, 40.67331 (WGS84)
Elevation 117
Location accuracy 100(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Lehigh(county)

Pennsylvania(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Cementon(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Allentown(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Newark(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)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Pennsylvania Lehigh

Comments on the location information

  • THIS MINE IS 1 OF 2 MINES EAST OF IRONTON.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Iron Tertiary

Nearby scientific data

Trench (1) Epler Formation

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mineral rights holdings

Type of mineral rights Fee Ownership
Type of mineral rights Unknown

Land status

Ownership category Private

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    PA.GEOLOGICAL SURVEY, FOURTH SERIES, BULLETIN C39, 1941, P 2

  • Deposit

    PA.GEOLOGICAL SURVEY, BULLETIN M50, 1964, PART 3, SHEET 2.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 25-NOV-83 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.