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Poultney River Drainage Placer Deposits

Producer in Rutland county in Vermont, United States with commodity Gold
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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. Ore body information
  9. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  10. Land status
  11. Links to other databases
  12. Bibliographic references
  13. General comments
  14. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10081190
MRDS ID W033064
Record type Site
Current site name Poultney River Drainage Placer Deposits

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -73.21203, 43.5083 (WGS84)
Location accuracy 10000(meters)
Relative position 10 MILES NORTH AND 12 MILES SOUTH OF POULTNEY, VT

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Rutland(county)

Vermont(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Poultney(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Ticonderoga(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Glens Falls(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Mid Atlantic(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Vermont Rutland

Comments on the location information

  • POINT LOCATED IS CENTRAL TO THE GOLD BEARING STREAMS AND THEREFORE IS NOT THE LOCATION OF THE DEPOSIT.
  • Streams Are 10 Miles N and 12 Miles S of Point Located

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Gold Ore

Nearby scientific data

(1) -73.21203, 43.5083
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR

Comments on the geologic information

  • FORMATIONS UNDERLYING STREAMS ARE NOT NECESSARILY SOURCE ROCKS FOR THE DEPOSIT.
  • Formations Underlying Streams Are Not Necessarily Source Rocks For the Deposit.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Land status

Ownership category Private

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    MORRILL, P AND CHAFFEE, R.G., 1964, VERMONT MINES AND MINERAL LOCALITTES, DARTMOUTH COLLEGE MUSEUM, HANOVER, NH., 54 P

  • Deposit

    U.S. Bureau Of Mines War Minerals Report No. 359; May, 1943U.S. Bureau Of Mines War Minerals Report No. 359; May, 1943

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit GOLD FOUND IN FLOWER BROOK AND THE HUBBARDTON RIVER
Deposit The Mountain Dark Quarry Seems To Be the Same As the Parker and Pinckney Prospect of Dale (1914).

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Updater 01-APR-1986 McBean, Alan J. (Ratte, Charles A.) Vermont Agency of Environmental Conservation
Reporter 01-JUN-1984 McBean, Alan J. (Ratte, Charles A.) Vermont Agency of Environmental Conservation
Editor 01-DEC-2002 L. G. Woodruff U.S. Geological Survey checked references; location; commodities; ore materials

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