Augusta 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. Ownership information
  12. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. General comments
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10272865
MAS/MILS ID 0360710025
Record type Site
Current site name Augusta Mine

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Ore Body
Geographic coordinates: -74.24597, 41.1997 (WGS84)
Elevation 262

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Orange(county)

New York(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Sloatsburg(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

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Iron Tertiary

Nearby scientific data

Ore Body (1) -74.24597, 41.1997

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

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

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    USGS BULLETIN 982-F, 1952, PP 229, 230.

  • Deposit

    WAR MINERALS REPORT 91.635, 1944, P 13.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit REF.701 PUTS RESERVES AT 121000 TONS OF INDIC ORE (MAGNETITE), WHICH MAY BE A PART OF THE SCOTT-COOK RESER

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.