CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


 
Database name: World Fe-oxide+/-Cu-Au-U (IOCG) deposits
Compilers: Sunil S. Gandhi
Release date: 2015-03-03
   
Deposit name(s): Parkhurst mine; Lyon Mountain ore belt; Lyon Mountain deposit group
Longitude / Latitude: -73.86944 / 44.75000
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
Deposit object located: mine site
Commodities: Fe
References:
Postel, A. W., 1952
Geology of the Clinton County Magnetite District, New York
Professional Papers, United States Geological Survey, Publication code 237, 87 p., 3 maps.


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