(Facility) New Jersey Zinc Smelter-Palmertown

Plant in Carbon county in Pennsylvania, United States with commodities Lead, Zinc
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 10305087
MAS/MILS ID 0420259001
Record type Site
Current site name (Facility) New Jersey Zinc Smelter-Palmertown

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Plant
Geographic coordinates: -75.63022, 40.79581 (WGS84)
Elevation 122
Location accuracy 100(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Carbon(county)

Pennsylvania(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Lehighton(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 Carbon

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Lead Tertiary
Zinc Critical Primary

Nearby scientific data

Plant (1) -75.63022, 40.79581

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Processing Plant
Development status Plant
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No
Plant type Smelter

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Unknown
    Owner New Jersey Zinc Co.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    1975 PA INDUSTRIAL DIR

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 15-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.