CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
680 United States (New York) 44.18.25 N -- 075.20.15 W Clifton Fe
 
Database name: World Fe-oxide+/-Cu-Au-U (IOCG) deposits
Compilers: Sunil S. Gandhi
Release date: 2015-03-04
   
Deposit name(s): Clifton
Political location(s): United States; Province or state: New York; Subprovince or locality: St. Lawrence County; Nearest community: Monterey / Degrasse (3.5 mi 145)
Deposit clan (type): Kiruna-type
Deposit status: past producer; Size category: 2.5 long tonnes ; Status comments: During 1865 to 1870 small open pit operation (<10000 tonnes), and from 1941 to 1952 underground mining that produced estimated 2 to 2.5 million long tonnes of ore grading 38 per cent Fe.
Geologic province: Grenville Province
Geologic subprovince: Adirondack Mountains
Deposit object located: mine site
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.

Walker, A. E., 1943
Geology of the Clifton and Parish Ore Deposits
Mining and Metallurgy, Volume 24, p. 519 - 520


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