Little Elmore Pond Locality

Occurrence in Lamoille county in Vermont, United States with commodities Iron, Titanium
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 10081545
MRDS ID W033619
Record type Site
Current site name Little Elmore Pond Locality

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -72.5345, 44.5053 (WGS84)
Elevation 378
Relative position 4.85 MILES SOUTHEAST OF MORRISVILLE, VT.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Lamoille(county)

Vermont(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Morrisville(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 Lamoille

Comments on the location information

  • TAKE FIRST ROAD WEST, SOUTH OF LAKE ELMORE. ROAD TORNS TO TRAIL AND JUST PAST THIRD BEAVER POND ON THE EAST SIDE OF THE TRAIL IS THE PIT.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Iron Primary
Titanium Critical Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Ilmenite Ore
Actinolite Gangue
Kyanite Gangue
Chlorite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Amphibolite
    Rock unit name Stowe Formation
    Rock description Stowe Formation
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Early Ordovician

Nearby scientific data

(1) -72.5345, 44.5053

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR

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 Roy Salls Elmore, Vt

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface
    Area 0.004HA
    Overall length 6.1M
    Overall width 6.1M

Reference information

Bibliographic references

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Updater 01-APR-1986 McBean, Alan J. (Ratte, Charles A.) Vermont Agency of Environmental Conservation
Reporter 01-JUL-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.