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Caledonia Prospect

Occurrence in St. Lawrence county in New York, United States with commodity Sulfur-Pyrite
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  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. Mining district
  12. Land status
  13. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10082128
MRDS ID W044755
Record type Site
Current site name Caledonia Prospect

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -75.53599, 44.27581 (WGS84)
Elevation 137
Relative position 1.2 MILES N 01 E OF THE CROSSROADS LOCATED IN SPRAGUEVILLE, N.Y.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

St. Lawrence(county)

New York(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Natural Dam(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Gouverneur(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Ogdensburg(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Great Lakes(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Fort Drum(Army Training Installation)

Army Training Installation ARMY(Type of land area)

ARMY(Federal land areas administered by ARMY)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States New York St. Lawrence

Comments on the location information

  • 1.2 MILES SOUTHEAST OF SOMMERVILLE

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Sulfur-Pyrite Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chlorite Gangue
Graphite Gangue
Phlogopite Gangue
Quartz Gangue
Serpentine Gangue

Analytical data

Result 20.0% S (PRUCHA, 1957)

Host and associated rocks

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

Nearby scientific data

(1) Potsdam Sandstone
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form LINEAR
    Strike NE
    Dip 25 NORTHWEST

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Gouverneur

Land status

Ownership category Private

Comments on development

  • SITE ORIGINALLY A HEMATITE MINE, IN 1948 A DIAMOND DRILLING PROGRAM BY REPUBLIC STEEL CORPORATION INDICATED HEMATITE WAS UNDERLAIN BY ONE OR MORE LAYERS OF PYRITIC SCHIST

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    BUDDINGTON, A.F., 1917, REPORT ON THE PYRITE AND PYRRHOTITE VEINS IN JEFFERSON AND ST LAWRENCE COUNTY, NY: NEW YORK STATE DEFENSE COUNCIL BULLETIN NO 1, P 32

  • Deposit

    BUDDINGTON, A.F., 1934, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL RESOURCES OF THE HAMMOND, ANTWERP, AND LOWVILLE QUADRANGLES: NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM BULLETIN 296, PP 209, 212, 213, MAP

  • Deposit

    O'LEARY, DENNIS, 1967, A STUDY OF THE GENESIS OF THE PYRITIC GNEISS IN THE GRENVILLE SERIES, ST LAWRENCE AND JEFFERSON COUNTIES, NEW YORK: MASTER'S, UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT ROLLA

  • Deposit

    PRUCHA, J.J., 1957, PYRITE DEPOSITS OF ST LAWRENCE AND JEFFERSON COUNTIES, NEW YORK: NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM BULLETIN 357, P 51, 52

  • Deposit

    LUEDKE, E.M., WRUCKE, C.T., AND GRAHAM, J.A., 1959, MINERAL OCCURRENCES OF NEW YORK STATE WITH SELECTED REFERENCES TO EACH LOCALITY: UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL BULLETIN 1072-F, P 425

Reporter information

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

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