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): Arnold mine
Longitude / Latitude: -73.61944 / 44.48889
Political location(s): United States; Province or state: New York; Subprovince or locality: Clinton County; Nearest community: Clintonville (4 km 315)
Deposit clan (type): Kiruna-type
Deposit status: past producer; Size category: 0.6 million tonnes; Status comments: Postel (1952, p. 51-52) reported 3 veins or shoots (black, bgrey and blue) with moderate plunge to NE, and a grade of 62 % Fe. Newland (1908, p. 100) estimated 600000 tonnes mined from 1830 to 1890.
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.


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