Coal Hill Deposit

Past Producer in St. Lawrence county in New York, United States with commodity Lead
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. General comments
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10082066
MRDS ID W044656
Record type Site
Current site name Coal Hill Deposit
Related records 10199996

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -75.66432, 44.35498 (WGS84)
Elevation 98
Relative position 1.88 MILES S53E OF BM 322 IN NELSON CORNERS NEW YORK

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

St. Lawrence(county)

New York(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Muskellunge Lake(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Gouverneur(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Ogdensburg(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Great Lakes(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States New York St. Lawrence

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Lead Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Calcite Gangue
Chalcopyrite Gangue
Pyrite Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Pegmatite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Gneiss

Nearby scientific data

(1) -75.66432, 44.35498

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form VEINS
    Strike N 80 W
    Dip NEARLY VERTICAL
    Width 1.83M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1835
Year of first production 1836
Year of last production 1868

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Carroll-Phelan Estate, 1952 (Surface Rights) Pardee Mining Co, 1952 (Mineral Rights)

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface
    Length 243.84M
    Overall depth 91.44M
    Overall length 243.84M

Reference information

Bibliographic references

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit Discovery Year: 1830'S

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-AUG-1985 Nyahay, Richard E. (Kelly, William M.) New York State Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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