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): |
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: amphiboliteHost 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: amphiboliteHost rock stratigraphy: | Lyon Mountain Granite gneiss |
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Related igneous rocks: |
(1) intrusive; granite suite (massive to gneissic); Initials: Lyon Mountain granitic gneiss; Magma series: calc-alkaline; Depositional setting: hypabyssalIndividual lithologies: | potassic granite (pyroxene-bearing ) |
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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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