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Faxon Property

Past Producer in Warren county in New York, United States with commodities Graphite, Quartz, Feldspar
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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. Ore body information
  10. Controls for ore emplacement
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Land status
  13. Ownership information
  14. Workings at the site
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10081444
MRDS ID W033481
Record type Site
Current site name Faxon Property
Alternate or previous names Wheeler Lot: Mineral Rights On Lot 229

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -73.58897, 43.74164 (WGS84)
Elevation 518
Relative position .55 MILES N42E OF BM 1468 NEXT TO NORTH POND IN THE TOWN OF HAGUE NY

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Warren(county)

New York(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Silver Bay(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 New York Warren

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Graphite Critical Primary
Quartz Secondary
Feldspar Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Feldspar Ore
Graphite Ore
Quartz Ore

Analytical data

Result SAMPLE AVG 8.1% GRF, 58.5% QTZ, 19.4% FLD

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Schist > Quartz-Feldspar Schist
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic

Nearby scientific data

(1) -73.58897, 43.74164
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form LINEAR
    Strike N50E
    Dip 20SE
    Thickness 7.62M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Fault

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Non-metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Year of first production 1892
Year of last production 1921

Land status

Ownership category State Park

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner American Graphite Co.
    First year 1919
  • Type Owner
    Owner Faxon, William H.
    Home office Chestertown
    First year 1919

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface/Underground
    Length 12.19M
    Overall length 12.19M

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    ALLING, H.L., 1918, THE ADIRONDACK GRAPHITE DEPOSITS: NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM BULLETIN 199, PP 43-57

  • Deposit

    LUEDKE, E.M., WRUCKE, C.T., AND GRAHAM, J.A., 1959, MINERAL OCCURRENCES OF NEW YORK STATE WITH SELECTED REFERENCES TO EACH LOCALITY: UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 1072 F, P. 400-401

  • Deposit

    BASTIN, E.S., 1908, GRAPHITE: MINERAL RESOURCES OF THE UNITED STATES PART 2, P. 724, 725

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUL-1984 Nyahay, Richard E. (Kelly, William M.) New York State Geological Survey

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