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): |
Walker Farm deposit; Hughesville School deposit |
Political location(s): |
United States; Province or state: New York; Subprovince or locality: St. Lawrence County; Nearest community: Russell (1.75 mi 205) |
Deposit clan (type): |
Kiruna-type |
Deposit (sub) types: |
skarn(?) |
Deposit status: |
prospect; Size category: very small; Status comments: some magnetite reportedly shipped in 1870; trenched; tested in 1943 by 14 drill holes; magnetite stringers, with pyrite, pyrrhotite and minor chalcopyrite, in pyroxene-garnet skarn at granite contact. |
Geologic province: |
Grenville Province |
Geologic subprovince: |
Adirondack Mountains |
Deposit object located: |
main trenched area |
Commodities: |
Fe |
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. |
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