Redback 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. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10127070
MAS/MILS ID 0360710039
Record type Site
Current site name Redback Mine

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Ore Body
Geographic coordinates: -74.24067, 41.1789 (WGS84)
Elevation 259

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) Amphibolite

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Surface-Underground
Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No
Discovery year 1780

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 Lake Iron And Railway Co.
    Interest 100
    Home office New York
    Year 1976

Comments on the production information

  • 3600 TONS OF HIGH SULPHUR MAGNETITE ORE WERE PRODUCED.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    USGS BULLETIN 982-F, 1952, PP 235,236.

  • Deposit

    US BUREAU OF MINES R.I.4469, 1949, 4 P.

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.