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Upper Works Ore Body

Producer in Essex county in New York, United States with commodities Titanium, Metal, Iron, Vanadium
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  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Materials information
  7. Host and associated rocks
  8. Nearby scientific data
  9. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  10. Mining district
  11. Links to other databases
  12. Bibliographic references
  13. General comments
  14. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10067871
MRDS ID W000745
Record type Site
Current site name Upper Works Ore Body
Alternate or previous names Calamity Or Mill Pond
Related records 10175218

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -74.06622, 44.09997 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Essex(county)

New York(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Mount Adams(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Tupper Lake(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Ogdensburg(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper Hudson(hydrologic unit)

Upper Hudson(hydrologic accounting unit)

Upper Hudson(hydrologic subregion)

Mid Atlantic(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States New York Essex

Commodities

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

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Apatite Gangue
Feldspar Gangue
Garnet Gangue
Pyroxene Gangue
Spinel Gangue
Ilmenite Unknown

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Gabbro
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Anorthosite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -74.06622, 44.09997
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Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • GEOL.DESC: IGNEOUS-ANORTHOSITE-NORITE

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Sanford Lake(Tahawus)District

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • ESTIMATED RESERVES ARE 9.5 MILLION

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    1A. GROSS, S.O., 1968, TITANIFEROUS ORES OF THE SANFORD LAKE DISTRICT, NEW YORK, IN ORE DEPOSITS OF THE UNITED STATES, 1933-1967(GRATON-SALES VOLUME), VOL. 1: NEW YORK, A.I.M.E. INC.,P.140-153.

  • Deposit

    1B. BALSLEY, J.R.,JR,1943, VANADIUM - BEARING MAGNETITE-ILMENITE DEPOSITS NEAR SANFORD LAKE, ESSEX COUNTY, NEW YORK: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULL. 940-D, P. 99-123.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit ONLY A FEW THOUSAND TONS OF ORE WERE MINED HERE, ALL PRIOR TO 1900(1A). ESTIMATED RESERVES ARE 9.5 MILLION ST TITANIFEROUS MATERIAL WITH 1.63 MILLION ST TIO2 (1B) ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-NOV-1972 Cooper, Margaret U.S. Geological Survey

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