Deposit group number | Country | Location | Names | Commodities |
9 | United States (New York) | 44.43.30 N -- 073.54.15 W | Lyon Mountain ore belt; Lyon Mountain deposit group | Fe |
Database name: | World Fe-oxide+/-Cu-Au-U (IOCG) deposits | ||||||
Compilers: | Sunil S. Gandhi | ||||||
Release date: | 2015-03-03 | ||||||
Deposit group name(s): | Lyon Mountain ore belt; Lyon Mountain deposit group | ||||||
Political location(s): | United States; Province or state: New York; Subprovince or locality: Clinton County; Nearest community: Standish Town | ||||||
Deposit clan (type): | Kiruna-type | ||||||
Deposit (sub) types: | intrusion-hosted; deposition of magnetite from sodic, ore-bearing solutions genetically related to the host Lyon Mountain leucogranitic suite, at 600 to 700 degrees C. | ||||||
Geologic province: | Grenville Province | ||||||
Geologic subprovince: | Adirondack Mountains | ||||||
Geologic district: | Adirondack Highlands | ||||||
Deposit object located: | Chateaugay open pit | ||||||
Commodities: | Fe | ||||||
Geological ages: | Late Mesoproterozoic (host rocks) | ||||||
Host rocks: | (1) intrusive; unclassified granitoid rocks
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Radiometric ages: | Object dated: Host Rocks; Age - Ma: 1,055; +7; -7; Dating method: U-Pb; Concentrate: zircon; Source rock: K-rich leucogranitic gneiss; Formal name: Lyon Mtn. suite / sample AM 86-10; Event dated: host rock; Interpretive comment: outer zone of zircons dated; late stage Ottawan orogeny; zircon cores dated at 1152 +/- 11Ma; Reference: McLelland, J.; Hamilton, M.; Selleck, B.; McLelland, J. M.; Orrell, S. ; Walker, D., 2000: Zircon U-Pb Geochronology of the Ottawan Orogeny, Adirondacks Highlands, New York: Regional and Tectonic Implications; Precambrian Research, Volume 109, p. 39 - 72 Object dated: Host Rocks; Age - Ma: 1,055; +7; -7; Dating method: U-Pb; Concentrate: zircon; Source rock: Na-rich leucogranitic gneiss; Formal name: Lyon Mtn. suite / sample AM 86-14; Event dated: host rock; Interpretive comment: outer zone of zircons dated; late stage Ottawan orogeny; zircon cores dated at 1141 +/-16 Ma; Reference: McLelland, J.; Hamilton, M.; Selleck, B.; McLelland, J. M.; Orrell, S. ; Walker, D., 2000: Zircon U-Pb Geochronology of the Ottawan Orogeny, Adirondacks Highlands, New York: Regional and Tectonic Implications; Precambrian Research, Volume 109, p. 39 - 72 Object dated: Host Rocks; Age - Ma: 1,060; +10; -10; Dating method: U-Pb; Concentrate: zircon; Source rock: K-rich leucogranitic gneiss; Formal name: Lyon Mtn. suite / sample AM 86-4; Event dated: host rock; Interpretive comment: outer zone of zircons dated; late stage Ottawan orogeny; zircon cores dated at 1158 +/-16 Ma; Reference: McLelland, J.; Hamilton, M.; Selleck, B.; McLelland, J. M.; Orrell, S. ; Walker, D., 2000: Zircon U-Pb Geochronology of the Ottawan Orogeny, Adirondacks Highlands, New York: Regional and Tectonic Implications; Precambrian Research, Volume 109, p. 39 - 72 Object dated: Host Rocks; Age - Ma: 1,048.7; +2.2; -2.2; Dating method: U-Pb; Concentrate: zircon; Source rock: K-rich leucogranitic gneiss; Formal name: Lyon Mtn. suite / sample 9-23-85-6; Event dated: host rock; Interpretive comment: outer zone of zircons dated; late stage Ottawan orogeny; zircon cores small or absent; Reference: McLelland, J.; Hamilton, M.; Selleck, B.; McLelland, J. M.; Orrell, S. ; Walker, D., 2000: Zircon U-Pb Geochronology of the Ottawan Orogeny, Adirondacks Highlands, New York: Regional and Tectonic Implications; Precambrian Research, Volume 109, p. 39 - 72 Object dated: Host Rocks; Age - Ma: 1,047.3; +2.2; -2.2; Dating method: U-Pb; Concentrate: zircon; Source rock: fayalite granite; Formal name: Lyon Mtn. suite / sample AM 86-11; Event dated: host rock; Interpretive comment: massive phase of the gneissic intrusive emplaced at late stage of the Ottawan orogeny; Reference: McLelland, J.; Hamilton, M.; Selleck, B.; McLelland, J. M.; Orrell, S. ; Walker, D., 2000: Zircon U-Pb Geochronology of the Ottawan Orogeny, Adirondacks Highlands, New York: Regional and Tectonic Implications; Precambrian Research, Volume 109, p. 39 - 72 Object dated: Host Rocks; Age - Ma: 1,047; +10; -10; Dating method: U-Pb; Concentrate: zircon; Source rock: fayalite granite; Formal name: Lyon Mtn.suite / sample CLFG; Event dated: host rock; Interpretive comment: Late Ottawan massive phase; outer zone of zircons dated; cores dated at 1155 +/-16 Ma; Reference: McLelland, J.; Hamilton, M.; Selleck, B.; McLelland, J. M.; Orrell, S. ; Walker, D., 2000: Zircon U-Pb Geochronology of the Ottawan Orogeny, Adirondacks Highlands, New York: Regional and Tectonic Implications; Precambrian Research, Volume 109, p. 39 - 72 Object dated: Related igneous rocks; Age - Ma: 1,034; +10; -10; Dating method: U-Pb; Concentrate: zircon; Source rock: Zoned pegmatite (qtz-alb.) dyke; Formal name: Lyon Mtn. suite/ sample PL-PEG; Event dated: host rock; Interpretive comment: Pegmatite cuts leucogranitic gneiss of the suite; elsewhere postdates magnetite-rich zones in it; Reference: McLelland, J.; Hamilton, M.; Selleck, B.; McLelland, J. M.; Orrell, S. ; Walker, D., 2000: Zircon U-Pb Geochronology of the Ottawan Orogeny, Adirondacks Highlands, New York: Regional and Tectonic Implications; Precambrian Research, Volume 109, p. 39 - 72 Object dated: Related igneous rocks; Age - Ma: 1,026; +8; -8; Dating method: U-Pb; Concentrate: monazite; Source rock: Zoned pegmatite (qtz-alb.) dyke; Formal name: Lyon Mtn. suite/ sample PL-PEG; Event dated: host rock; Interpretive comment: The date is regarded as the time of monazite closure at ~ 725 degrees C.; Reference: McLelland, J.; Hamilton, M.; Selleck, B.; McLelland, J. M.; Orrell, S. ; Walker, D., 2000: Zircon U-Pb Geochronology of the Ottawan Orogeny, Adirondacks Highlands, New York: Regional and Tectonic Implications; Precambrian Research, Volume 109, p. 39 - 72 | ||||||
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Production data: | Report period: from 1870 until 1975; 20 million long tons ore; Provisional entry?: no; Yearly or summary?: S
Percent weights allocated to camp: 25.0% | ||||||
Associated deposit(s): | Chateaugay (576), '81' mine (577), Phillips vein (578), Parkhurst mine (579) |