(Facility) Asarco Refinery/ Perth Amboy, N.J.

Plant in Middlesex county in New Jersey, United States with commodities Copper, Silver
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 10174614
MAS/MILS ID 0340239915
Record type Site
Current site name (Facility) Asarco Refinery/ Perth Amboy, N.J.

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Plant
Geographic coordinates: -74.26788, 40.5117 (WGS84)
Elevation 7
Location accuracy 5000(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Middlesex(county)

New Jersey(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Perth Amboy(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Newark(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Newark(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Sandy Hook-Staten Island(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 Jersey Middlesex

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary
Silver Secondary

Nearby scientific data

Plant (1) -74.26788, 40.5117

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Unknown
    Owner Asarco (American Smelting And Refining Co.)
    Year 1978

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    1978 E/M J DIRECTORY

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 02-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.

Operator history (post-MRDS)

MRDS records operators as of each record's last update (≤ 2019). Some of the operators listed here have since changed hands or dissolved:

Curated by qvyshift.com from publicly-reported M&A activity (SEC filings, press releases, USGS Mineral Yearbooks). Not authoritative — verify against primary sources before relying on it. The MSHA panel above is the current authoritative source for actively-permitted mines.