Unnamed Talc Occurrences

Occurrence in Windsor county in Vermont, United States with commodity Talc-Soapstone
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. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10081642
MRDS ID W033907
Record type Site
Current site name Unnamed Talc Occurrences
Alternate or previous names Unnamed

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -72.71701, 43.6081 (WGS84)
Elevation 457
Relative position 1.75 MILES NORTHWEST OF WEST BRIDGEWATER, VT.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Windsor(county)

Vermont(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Plymouth(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Rutland(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Glens Falls(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Black 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 Windsor

Comments on the location information

  • SEE PERRY (1928) AND MORRILL AND CHAFFEE (1964) FOR APPROXIMATE LOCATIONS.
  • Several Outcrops of Talc Within 2000 Feet of Location Given

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Talc-Soapstone Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Steatite Ore
Talc Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Phyllite
    Rock unit name Ottauquechee Formation
    Rock description Ottauquechee Formation
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cambrian
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cambrian

Nearby scientific data

(1) -72.71701, 43.6081

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR PODS AND LENSES

Comments on the geologic information

  • AN ULTRAMAFIC ORIGIN FOR THIS STEATITE OCCURRENCE IS DOUBTFUL.
  • An Ultramafic Origin For This Steatite Occurrence Is Doubtful.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Non-metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Land status

Ownership category Private

Comments on the workings information

  • ONE OF THESE OUTCROPS, "100 YARDS NORTH OF THE MCELROY FARMHOUSE,"(PERRY, 1928) WAS AT ONE TIME PROSPECTED FOR SOAPSTONE.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-NOV-1985 McBean, Alan J. (Ratte, Charles A.) Vermont Agency of Environmental Conservation

Beyond USGS

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