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Seymour Nickel Mine Brook Arsenic and Nickel Mine.

Past Producer in New Haven county in Connecticut, United States with commodities Arsenic, Nickel, Iron, Sulfur
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  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Materials information
  7. Nearby scientific data
  8. Controls for ore emplacement
  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 10068210
MRDS ID W001158
Record type Site
Current site name Seymour Nickel Mine Brook Arsenic and Nickel Mine.
Related records 10142907

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -73.08397, 41.37666 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

New Haven(county)

Connecticut(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Naugatuck(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Bridgeport(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Hartford(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Housatonic(hydrologic unit)

Connecticut Coastal(hydrologic accounting unit)

Connecticut Coastal(hydrologic subregion)

New England(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Connecticut New Haven

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Arsenic Critical Primary
Nickel Critical Primary
Iron Tertiary
Sulfur Tertiary

Comments on the commodity information

  • INFORMATION LACKING. OLD SHAFT IN VALLEY, ADJACENT TO STREAM, AT BASE OF HILL, NEAR MOUTH; DUMPS BOTH SIDE OF STREAM; ARSENOPYRITE IN DUMP MATERIAL.

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Biotite Gangue
Calcite Gangue
Magnetite Gangue
Microcline Gangue
Muscovite Gangue
Plagioclase Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Economic information

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Near Contact Of Collinsville And Cambrian Ordovician The Straits Schist Formation.

Comments on the geologic information

  • GEOL.DESC: COLLINSVILLE HIGHLY METAMORPHOSED TUFFS AND PYROCLASTICS WITH NUMEROUS THICK AMPHIBOLITE, MARBLE, AND QUARTZITE LAYERS IN UPPERMOST PART OF SECTION; NEAR CONTACT WITH HIGHLY METAMORPHOSED CLAY RICH SHALES OF THE STRAITS SCHIST FORMATION.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Both
Significant No
Production years UNKNOWN

Mining district

District name Seymour

Comments on the production information

  • INFORMATION LACKING. SMALL PRODUCTION OF HIGH GRADE NICKEL AND ARSENIC ORE.

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • FIGURES LACKING. PROBABLY SMALL AMOUNT OF HIGH GRADE ARSENOPYRITE ORE STILL PRESENT; METALLIC SULFIDE ZONE NEEDS STUDY.

Comments on development

  • TOTAL$: US

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    RYERSON, K. H., 1968, "ROCK HOUND'S GUIDE CONN.", PEQUOT PRESS, HANDBOOK NO. 3, PG. 7, 8

  • Production

    SCHAIRER, 1931

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit CROWLEY'S MAP AT 1:125000 LOCATES MINE BY SYMBOL. ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUL-1972 D'Agostino, John P. U.S. Geological Survey

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