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Gossan - Not Prospected

Occurrence in Franklin county in Massachusetts, United States with commodities Iron, Sulfur
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  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Nearby scientific data
  7. Controls for ore emplacement
  8. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  9. Mining district
  10. Links to other databases
  11. Bibliographic references
  12. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10067353
MRDS ID W000067
Record type Site
Current site name Gossan - Not Prospected
Related records 10305382

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -72.79035, 42.63554 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Franklin(county)

Massachusetts(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Heath(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Keene(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Albany(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Deerfield River(hydrologic unit)

Lower Connecticut(hydrologic accounting unit)

Connecticut(hydrologic subregion)

New England(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Massachusetts Franklin

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Iron Tertiary
Sulfur Tertiary

Nearby scientific data

(1) -72.79035, 42.63554
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Economic information

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Not Known, But Probably Parallels Schistosity

Comments on the geologic information

  • GEOL.DESC: METAMORPHOSED HAWLEY FORMATION CONSISTS OF AMPHIBOLITES, GREENSTONES, FELDSPATHIC SCHISTS, GRANULITES; AMPHIBOLITES OF HORNBLENDE AND OLIGOCLASE; LOCATED WEST RIDGE OF SHELBURNE FALLS DOME BETWEEN EAST OXBOW AND WILDER BROOKS.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Both
Significant No

Mining district

District name Heath Quad

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • STUDY NEEDED; GOSSAN 50% TOURMALINE; PROBABLY SIMILAR TO DAVIS MINE DEPOSIT NO. 43 (ALBANY)

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    HATCH, N. L., JR., USGS GQ 735, 1968, 1:24,000

  • Reserve-Resource

    HATCH, N. L., JR., 1968

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-SEP-1971 D'Agostino, John P. U.S. Geological Survey

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

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