Elizabethtown-Westport Area

Past Producer in Essex county in New York, United States with commodities Iron, Titanium, Metal, Vanadium
Sections on this page
  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Nearby scientific data
  7. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  8. Links to other databases
  9. Bibliographic references
  10. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10008224
MRDS ID D000214
Record type Site
Current site name Elizabethtown-Westport Area

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -73.49953, 44.19997 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Essex(county)

New York(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Westport(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Lake Champlain South(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Lake Champlain(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Mid Atlantic(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States New York Essex

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Iron Primary
Titanium, Metal Critical Tertiary
Vanadium Critical Tertiary

Analytical data

Result 24-44 % FE, 10-19 % TIO2, 0.04-0.62 % V2O5

Nearby scientific data

(1) -73.49953, 44.19997

Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • GEOL.DESC: NUMEROUS SMALL BODIES OF TITANIFEROUS MAGNETITE IN ULTRAMAFIC ROCKS

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Comments on the production information

  • SMALL PRODUCTION (OLD, NO QUANTITATIVE RECORD)

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • PROBABLY SMALL (ABOUT 40,000 SHORT TONS V); 24-44% FE, 10-19% TIO2, 0.04-0.62% V2O5 (KEMP, 1897-98)

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    NEWLAND, 1908, N. Y. STATE MUSEUM BULL. 119

  • Deposit

    KEMP, USGS 19TH ANN. REPT. PT. III, 1897-1898

  • Deposit

    LAWTHERS, ROBT., 1957, USBM I. C. 7791

  • Reserve-Resource

    LAWTHERS, 1957

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-SEP-1973 Fischer, Richard P. U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.