Jacob Steiners and Solomon Kehms

Past Producer in Lehigh county in Pennsylvania, 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. Mineral rights holdings
  9. Land status
  10. Ownership information
  11. Links to other databases
  12. Bibliographic references
  13. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10177915
MAS/MILS ID 0420770027
Record type Site
Current site name Jacob Steiners and Solomon Kehms
Alternate or previous names No. 134

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Ore Body
Geographic coordinates: -75.52852, 40.55361 (WGS84)
Elevation 142

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Lehigh(county)

Pennsylvania(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Allentown West(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 Lehigh

Comments on the location information

  • THIS MINE IS 1 OF A GROUP OF SMALL MINES NORTH OF THE LITTLE CREEK. SEE ALSO H. KEMBRY AND CARBON IRON CO. MINE. THE ORE WAS LIMONITE.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Iron Tertiary

Nearby scientific data

Ore Body (1) Allentown Formation

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mineral rights holdings

Type of mineral rights Fee Ownership
Type of mineral rights Private Lease

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Lehigh Iron Co. (Formerly)
    Home office Pennsylvania
    Year 1976
  • Type Operator
    Owner Emaus Iron Co. (Formerly)
    Home office Pennsylvania
    Year 1976

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    PA. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY, BULLETIN M50, 1964, PART 3, SHEET 2.

  • Deposit

    PA. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY, 4TH SERIES, BULLETIN C39, 1941, P 300

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.