CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
644 United States (New York) 43.54.00 N -- 073.55.45 W Minerva mine Fe
 
Database name: World Fe-oxide+/-Cu-Au-U (IOCG) deposits
Compilers: Sunil S. Gandhi
Release date: 2015-03-04
   
Deposit name(s): Minerva mine
Political location(s): United States; Province or state: New York; Subprovince or locality: Essex County; Nearest community: Minerva Town (2 mi N)
Deposit clan (type): Kiruna-type
Deposit (sub) types: Kiruna-type; tabular, dip 10 degrees northeast, pyrite present in ore
Geologic province: Grenville Province
Geologic subprovince: Adirondack Mountains
Deposit object located: main trenched area
Commodities: Fe
Host rocks: (1) metamorphic; metasedimentary schist; Magma series/sedimentary package/metamorphic group: platform-shelf sediments; Depositional setting: shallow marine; Metamorphic grade: amphibolite
Host rock protoliths:limestone-shale (intruded by granitic gneiss); Host rock protolith name: host Grenville gneisses
Individual lithologies:marble
hornblende gneiss
schist
garnetiferous schist
Host rock stratigraphy:Grenville sedimentary sequence

(2) intrusive; granite suite (Lenses and small bodies in Grenville metasedimentary rocks); Magma series/sedimentary package/metamorphic group: calc-alkaline; Depositional setting: catazonal; Metamorphic grade: amphibolite
Host rock stratigraphy:Lyon Mountain Granite gneiss
Related igneous rocks: (1) intrusive; granite suite (massive to gneissic); Initials: Lyon Mountain granitic gneiss; Magma series: calc-alkaline; Depositional setting: hypabyssal
Individual lithologies:potassic granite (pyroxene-bearing )
Metallogenic signatures: Fe
References:
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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