1. Mineral Resources
  2. Online Spatial Data
  3. Mineral Resource Data System (MRDS)

Unnamed Manganese Prospect

Occurrence in Franklin county in Vermont, United States with commodities Iron, Manganese
Map
XML
JSON
KML
B
Sections on this page
  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. Ore body information
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Land status
  12. Ownership information
  13. Workings at the site
  14. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10081423
MRDS ID W033455
Record type Site
Current site name Unnamed Manganese Prospect
Alternate or previous names Unnamed

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -72.7064, 44.9986 (WGS84)
Elevation 233
Location accuracy 10000(meters)
Relative position 1.75 MILES WEST OF RICHFORD, VT.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Franklin(county)

Vermont(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Richford(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Mount Mansfield(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Lake Champlain(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Mid Atlantic(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Vermont Franklin

Comments on the location information

  • PROSPECT LOCATED 50 FEET EAST OF GRAVEL ROAD IN A SMALL CLUMP OF TREES.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Iron Primary
Manganese Critical Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Hematite Ore
Rhodonite Ore
Epidote Gangue
Pyrolusite Gangue
Calcite Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Metavolcanic Rock > Mafic Metamorphic Rock > Greenstone
    Rock unit name Pinnacle Formation, Tibbit Hill Member
    Rock description Pinnacle Formation, Tibbit Hill Member
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Early Cambrian
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Early Cambrian

Nearby scientific data

(1) -72.7064, 44.9986
ListMap

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR
    Strike N25E
    Dip 90
    Depth to top 0M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Paul And Delora St. Germaine, Berkshire, Vt. (802) 848-3588

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface
    Area 0.003HA
    Overall length 9.14M
    Overall width 3.05M

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    DENNIS, J.G., 1964, THE GEOLOGY OF THE ENOSBURG AREA, VERMONT, VGS BULL. NO. 23, P 53.

  • Deposit

    GRANT, R., 1964, MINERAL COLLECTING IN VERMONT. VGS SPECIAL PUBLICATION NO. 2,P. 17-18.

  • Deposit

    Grant, W. R., 1968, Mineral Collecting In Vermont: Vermont Geological Survey Special Publication 2, 49 P.Grant, W. R., 1968, Mineral Collecting In Vermont: Vermont Geological Survey Special Publication 2, 49 P.

  • Deposit

    Dennis, J.G., 1964, The Geology Of The Enosburg Area, Vermont: Vermont Geological Survey Bulletin 23, 56 P.Dennis, J.G., 1964, The Geology Of The Enosburg Area, Vermont: Vermont Geological Survey Bulletin 23, 56 P.

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

Beyond USGS

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

Maps centered on this site