CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
648 United States (New York) 43.10.10 N -- 074.50.00 W Salisbury mine Fe
 
Database name: World Fe-oxide+/-Cu-Au-U (IOCG) deposits
Compilers: Sunil S. Gandhi
Release date: 2015-03-04
   
Deposit name(s): Salisbury mine
Political location(s): United States; Province or state: New York; Subprovince or locality: Herkimer County; Nearest community: Dolgeville (5 mi N)
Deposit clan (type): Kiruna-type
Deposit status: past producer; Size category: small; Status comments: Discovered and trenched about 1840; main zone trends east, dips steeply south. During 1905, a 200' deep shaft was sunk, with drifts at 100' and 150' levels. A parallel small zone 1 mile to the south.
Geologic province: Grenville Province
Geologic subprovince: Adirondack Mountains
Deposit object located: mine site
Commodities: Fe
Mineralization styles: massive magnetite lenses, interbedded
Host rocks: (1) intrusive; granite suite (Leucogranitic suite); Magma series/sedimentary package/metamorphic group: calc-alkaline; Metamorphic grade: amphibolite
Host rock protoliths:granite; Host rock protolith name: LyonMountain granitic gneiss
Individual lithologies:leucogranite
Host rock stratigraphy:Lyon Mountain Granite gneiss
Related igneous rocks: (1) intrusive; granite suite (Leucogranitic suite); Initials: Lyon Mountain granitic gneiss; Magma series: calc-alkaline; Depositional setting: hypabyssal
Individual lithologies:syenite (greenish augite-bearing variety; gneissic, locally with augen texture)
Mineralogy: (alteration): apatite, hornblende (actinolite?), augite, feldspar, quartz
(mineralization): magnetite
References:
Cushing, H. P., 1907
Geology of the Long Lake Quadrangle
New York State Museum Bulletin, p. 1 - 88

McLelland, J.; Foose, M. P.; Morrison, J., 2001
Kiruna-type Low-Ti, Fe Oxide ores and Related Rocks, Adirondack Mountains, New York: High Temperature Hydrothermal Processes
in Proterozoic iron and zinc deposits of the Adirondack Mountains of New York and New Jersey Highlands (Part 1; Guide Book 35), Edited by Slack, J. F., Guide Book Series, Society of Economic Geologists, Society of Economic Geology, Inc., v. 35/pt.1, 110 p, p. 7 - 17

Newland, D. H., 1908
Geology of the Adirondack Magnetic Iron Ores, with a Report on the Mineville-Port Henry Mine Group by J. F. Kemp
New York State Museum Bulletin, p. 1 - 182


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