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Parish Deposit

Occurrence in St. Lawrence county in New York, United States with commodity Iron
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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. Land status
  12. Workings at the site
  13. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10082184
MRDS ID W044846
Record type Site
Current site name Parish Deposit
Related records 10296592

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -74.94708, 44.35304 (WGS84)
Elevation 378
Relative position 4.07 MILES N 35 E OF BM 1221 ON TOOLEY POND RD BY RAINBOW FALLS

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

St. Lawrence(county)

New York(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Tooley Pond(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Tupper Lake(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
Iron Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Magnetite Ore
Barite Gangue
Fluorite Gangue
Garnet Gangue
Quartz 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) -74.94708, 44.35304
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form LENTICULAR
    Strike N-S
    Dip VERTICAL
    Thickness 40.84M
    Length 12.8M
    Width 22.86M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Land status

Ownership category State

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface
    Area 0.002HA
    Length 6.1M
    Overall depth 1.52M
    Overall length 6.1M
    Overall width 3.05M

Comments on the workings information

  • ONE SMALL TEST PIT OPENED

Comments on development

  • INTENSIVE EXPLORATION OF THE DEPOSIT WAS MADE BY M.A. HANNA CO. IN 1941, A DIP NEEDLE SURVEY AND 30 HOLES WERE DRILLED. IN 1949, THE MINERAL RIGHTS WERE HELD BY W.H. LOOMIS TALC CORP

Reference information

Bibliographic references

Reporter information

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

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