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): |
Salisbury mine |
Political location(s): |
United States; Province or state: New York; Subprovince or locality: Herkimer County; Nearest community: Dolgeville (5 mi N) |
Deposit clan (type): |
Kiruna-type |
Deposit status: |
past producer; Size category: small; Status comments: Discovered and trenched about 1840; main zone trends east, dips steeply south. During 1905, a 200' deep shaft was sunk, with drifts at 100' and 150' levels. A parallel small zone 1 mile to the south. |
Geologic province: |
Grenville Province |
Geologic subprovince: |
Adirondack Mountains |
Deposit object located: |
mine site |
Commodities: |
Fe |
Mineralization styles: |
massive magnetite lenses, interbedded |
Host rocks: |
(1) intrusive; granite suite (Leucogranitic suite); Magma series/sedimentary package/metamorphic group: calc-alkaline; Metamorphic grade: amphiboliteHost rock protoliths: | granite; Host rock protolith name: LyonMountain granitic gneiss | Individual lithologies: | leucogranite | Host rock stratigraphy: | Lyon Mountain Granite gneiss |
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Related igneous rocks: |
(1) intrusive; granite suite (Leucogranitic suite); Initials: Lyon Mountain granitic gneiss; Magma series: calc-alkaline; Depositional setting: hypabyssalIndividual lithologies: | syenite (greenish augite-bearing variety; gneissic, locally with augen texture) |
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Mineralogy: |
(alteration): apatite, hornblende (actinolite?), augite, feldspar, quartz (mineralization): magnetite |
References: |
Cushing, H. P., 1907 |
Geology of the Long Lake Quadrangle |
New York State Museum Bulletin, p. 1 - 88 |
McLelland, J.; Foose, M. P.; Morrison, J., 2001 |
Kiruna-type Low-Ti, Fe Oxide ores and Related Rocks, Adirondack Mountains, New York: High Temperature Hydrothermal Processes |
in Proterozoic iron and zinc deposits of the Adirondack Mountains of New York and New Jersey Highlands (Part 1; Guide Book 35), Edited by Slack, J. F., Guide Book Series, Society of Economic Geologists, Society of Economic Geology, Inc., v. 35/pt.1, 110 p, p. 7 - 17 |
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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