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Scott-Cook Mine

Past Producer in Orange county in New York, United States with commodity Iron
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  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 10175228
MAS/MILS ID 0360710040
Record type Site
Current site name Scott-Cook Mine

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Ore Body
Geographic coordinates: -74.24287, 41.2033 (WGS84)
Elevation 250
Location accuracy 10(meters)

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) -74.24287, 41.2033
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Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type 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 Private Lease

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

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

Comments on the production information

  • PRODUCTION IS ESTIMATED AT 497,500 TONS OF MAGNETITE ORE. ESTIMATED RESERVES AS FOLLOWS- 304400 TONS OF BLOCKED OUT ORE, 1,075,400 TONS OF INDICATED ORE, AND 8,400, TONS OF ORE INFERRED TO A DEPTH OF 4000 FEET. TOTAL ESTIMATE RESERVES ARE THUS 9,479,000 TONS NOTE- THE LOCATION GIVEN ON REC.030 IS FOR COOK MINE. SCOTT ABOUT 300 METERS TO THE NORTH-NORTH-EAST.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    USGS BULLETIN 982-F, 1952, PP 227- 229.

  • Deposit

    WAR MINERALS REPORT 91.635, 1944, 20 P.

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.

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