Unnamed

Occurrence in Orange county in Vermont, United States with commodities Lead, Zinc
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 10081568
MRDS ID W033650
Record type Site
Current site name Unnamed

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -72.2253, 43.8253 (WGS84)
Elevation 262
Relative position 0.45 MILES NORTH, NORTHEAST OF THETFORD HILL, VT.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Orange(county)

Vermont(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Lyme(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Rutland(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Glens Falls(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Waits River-Connecticut River(hydrologic unit)

Upper Connecticut(hydrologic accounting unit)

Connecticut(hydrologic subregion)

New England(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Vermont Orange

Comments on the location information

  • PROSPECT IS LOCATED ON THE SOUTHERN BOUNDARY OF THE THETFORD HILL STATE FOREST.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Lead Primary
Zinc Critical Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Sphalerite Ore
Galena Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Metasedimentary Rock > Quartzite
    Rock unit name Gile Mountain Formation
    Rock description Gile Mountain Formation
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Early Devonian
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Early Devonian

Nearby scientific data

(1) -72.2253, 43.8253

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR
    Strike NS
    Dip 50E

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Land status

Ownership category State Forest

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner State Of Vermont

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface
    Area 0.001HA
    Overall length 7.62M
    Overall width 1.52M

Comments on the workings information

  • SMALL PIT EXCAVATED ALONG STRIKE OF A QUARTZ VEIN.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    MCBEAN, A., 1984, UNPUBLISHED FIELD NOTEBOOK. VGS FILE, PP. 50-51

  • Deposit

    Mcbean, A., 1984, Unpublished Field Notebook. Vermont Geological Survey File, Pp. 50-51.Mcbean, A., 1984, Unpublished Field Notebook. Vermont Geological Survey File, Pp. 50-51.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Editor 01-JAN-2003 L. G. Woodruff U.S. Geological Survey checked references; location; commodities; ore materials
Updater 01-APR-1986 McBean, Alan J. (Ratte, Charles A.) Vermont Agency of Environmental Conservation
Reporter 01-NOV-1984 McBean, Alan J. (Ratte, Charles A.) Vermont Agency of Environmental Conservation

Beyond USGS

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