Burden Deposit

Past Producer in Clinton county in New York, United States with commodity Iron
Sections on this page
  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Host and associated rocks
  7. Nearby scientific data
  8. Ore body information
  9. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  10. Land status
  11. Ownership information
  12. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10082094
MRDS ID W044692
Record type Site
Current site name Burden Deposit
Alternate or previous names Chateaguay Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -73.91037, 44.71719 (WGS84)
Elevation 600
Relative position .74 MILES S 10 W OF BM 1763 IN LYON MOUNTAIN NEW YORK

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Clinton(county)

New York(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Lyon Mountain(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Lake Champlain North(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Lake Champlain(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Great Lakes(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States New York Clinton

Comments on the location information

  • 1:24000 QUADRANGLE MAP IS A 1968 EDITION

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Iron Primary

Host and associated rocks

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

Nearby scientific data

(1) -73.91037, 44.71719

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form LENSE

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Medium
Significant No
Year of first production 1875
Year of last production 1967

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Republic Steel Corp
    First year 1967

Reference information

Bibliographic references

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUN-1986 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.