Database name: |
World Fe-oxide+/-Cu-Au-U (IOCG) deposits |
Compilers: |
Sunil S. Gandhi |
Release date: |
2015-03-04 |
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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: granuliteIndividual 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: granuliteHost rock stratigraphy: | Grenville sedimentary sequence |
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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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