CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
687 United States (New York) 44.24.15 N -- 075.09.55 W Walker Farm deposit; Hughesville School deposit Fe
 
Database name: World Fe-oxide+/-Cu-Au-U (IOCG) deposits
Compilers: Sunil S. Gandhi
Release date: 2015-03-04
   
Deposit name(s): Walker Farm deposit; Hughesville School deposit
Political location(s): United States; Province or state: New York; Subprovince or locality: St. Lawrence County; Nearest community: Russell (1.75 mi 205)
Deposit clan (type): Kiruna-type
Deposit (sub) types: skarn(?)
Deposit status: prospect; Size category: very small; Status comments: some magnetite reportedly shipped in 1870; trenched; tested in 1943 by 14 drill holes; magnetite stringers, with pyrite, pyrrhotite and minor chalcopyrite, in pyroxene-garnet skarn at granite contact.
Geologic province: Grenville Province
Geologic subprovince: Adirondack Mountains
Deposit object located: main trenched area
Commodities: Fe
References:
Leonard, B. F.; Buddington, A. F., 1964
Ore Deposits of the St. Lawrence County Magnetite District, Northwest Adirondacks, New York
Professional Papers, United States Geological Survey, Publication code 377, 259 p., 27 maps.


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