CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
675 United States (New York) 44.21.15 N -- 074.56.55 W Parish deposit; Parish ore bed Fe; spessartite
 
Database name: World Fe-oxide+/-Cu-Au-U (IOCG) deposits
Compilers: Sunil S. Gandhi
Release date: 2015-03-04
   
Deposit name(s): Parish deposit; Parish ore bed
Political location(s): United States; Province or state: New York; Subprovince or locality: St. Lawrence County; Nearest community: Monterey / Degrasse (6.5 mi 080)
Deposit clan (type): Kiruna-type
Deposit status: prospect; Status comments: One of the few outcropping magnetite deposits in the Adirondacks. Magnetic dip needle survey and 30 holes drilled by M. A. Hanna Co. in 1941.
Geologic province: Grenville Province
Geologic subprovince: Adirondack Mountains
Deposit object located: centre-magnetic anomaly
Commodities: Fe; spessartite
Mineralization styles: disseminated magnetite along bands
Geological ages: Late Mesoproterozoic (host rocks)
Tectonic setting: continental (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) intrusive; granite suite; Magma series/sedimentary package/metamorphic group: calc-alkaline; Depositional setting: continental; Metamorphic grade: granulite
Individual lithologies:granite (potassic)
Host rock stratigraphy:Lyon Mountain Granitic Gneiss

(2) metamorphic; gneiss (Pyroxene-quartz-feldspar gneiss); Magma series/sedimentary package/metamorphic group: quartzo-feldspathic assemblage; Metamorphic grade: granulite
Host rock stratigraphy:Grenville sedimentary sequence
Related igneous rocks: (1) intrusive; granite suite; Initials: Lyon Mountain granitic gneiss; Magma series: calc-alkaline; Depositional setting: continental
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.

Walker, A. E., 1943
Geology of the Clifton and Parish Ore Deposits
Mining and Metallurgy, Volume 24, p. 519 - 520


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