CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
585 United States (New York) 44.28.00 N -- 073.40.20 W Palmer Hill Fe
 
Database name: World Fe-oxide+/-Cu-Au-U (IOCG) deposits
Compilers: Sunil S. Gandhi
Release date: 2015-03-04
   
Deposit name(s): Palmer Hill
Political location(s): United States; Province or state: New York; Subprovince or locality: Clinton County; Nearest community: Clintonville (8 km 270)
Deposit clan (type): Kiruna-type
Deposit status: past producer; Size category: 1 million tonnes; Status comments: Newland (1908, p. 102) estimated that the Palmer Hill group of mines produced more than 1 million tonnes of ore. Postel (1952, p. 49) reported grade in the range of 33 to 58 per cent Fe.
Geologic province: Grenville Province
Geologic subprovince: Adirondack Mountains
Deposit object located: mine site
Commodities: 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

Newland, D. H., 1920
Magnetic Iron Ores of Clinton County, New York
Economic Geology, Volume 15, p. 177 - 180

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.

Associated group(s): Palmer Hill group (11)

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