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Unnamed Pge Occurrence

Occurrence in Bergen county in New Jersey, United States with commodities Platinum, Palladium
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  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Host and associated rocks
  7. Nearby scientific data
  8. Ore body information
  9. Controls for ore emplacement
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Links to other databases
  12. Bibliographic references
  13. General comments
  14. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10048642
MRDS ID MP00246
Record type Site
Current site name Unnamed Pge Occurrence

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -73.98151, 40.83722 (WGS84)
Elevation 46
Location accuracy 1000(meters)
Relative position NEAR PALISADES PARK, Estimated At Palisades Park

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Bergen(county)

New Jersey(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Central Park(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Long Island West(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

New York(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Hackensack-Passaic(hydrologic unit)

Lower Hudson(hydrologic accounting unit)

Lower Hudson-Long Island(hydrologic subregion)

Mid Atlantic(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States New Jersey Bergen

Comments on the location information

  • UNSURVEYED. EXACT LOCATION OF SAMPLE SITES UNKNOWN. LOCATION GIVEN IS FOR PALISADES PARK

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Platinum Critical Primary
Palladium Critical Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • OTHER COMMODITIES SUCH AS CU AND NI ARE POSSIBLY PRESENT BUT NOT ADDRESSED IN REFERENCES

Analytical data

Result NUMEROUS SAMPLES: PT=<0.5-35 PPB, PD=<0.5-200 PPB

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite > Diabase
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Jurassic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Jurassic

Nearby scientific data

(1) Diabase
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form UNKNOWN BUT PROBABLY DISSEMINATED

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Magmatic Segregation

Comments on the geologic information

  • DURING DIFFERENTIATION, PT IS ENRICHED RELATIVE TO PD IN CUMULATE LAYERS. PD IS ENRICHED RELATIVE TO PT IN LATER DIFFERENTIATES.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Comments on the workings information

  • GEOCHEMICAL SAMPLING ONLY

Comments on development

  • OCCURRENCE FOUND DURING SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH AND ECONOMIC CONCENTRATIONS HAVE NOT YET BEEN FOUND IN THE MESOZOIC BASINS

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    GOTTFRIED, DAVID, AND FROELICH, A.J., 1988, VARIATIONS OF PALLADIUM AND PLATINUM CONTENTS AND RATIOS IN SELECTED EARLY MESOZOIC THOLEIITIC ROCK ASSOCIATIONS IN THE EASTERN UNITED STATES, IN, FROELICH, A.J., AND ROBINSON, G.R., JR., EDS., STUDIES OF THE EARLY MESOZOIC BASINS OF THE EASTERN UNITED STATES: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 1776, P. 332-341.

  • Deposit

    GOTTFRIED, DAVID, FROELICH, A.J., ARUSCAVAGE, P.J., AND RAIT, NORMA, 1989, ANOMALOUS PALLADIUM-PLATINUM OCCURRENCES IN MESOZOIC QUARTZ-NORMATIVE THOLEIITIC SUITES IN THE EASTERN UNITED STATES, IN SCHINDLER, K.S., ED., USGS RESEARCH ON MINERAL RESOURCES - 1989, PROGRAM AND ABSTRACTS: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY CIRCULAR 1035, P. 23-25.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit UNPUBLISHED MODEL NAME: MAGMATIC SEGREGATION.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUL-92 Peterson, Jocelyn A. U.S. Geological Survey

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