Pope Mills Deposit

Past Producer in St. Lawrence county in New York, United States with commodity Graphite
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. Ownership information
  12. Workings at the site
  13. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10090004
MRDS ID W044787
Record type Site
Current site name Pope Mills Deposit
Related records 10126984

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -75.55738, 44.47026 (WGS84)
Elevation 91
Relative position 1.53 MILES S 50 E OF BM 283 IN POPE MILLS 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

Pope Mills(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
Graphite Critical Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Apatite Gangue
Calcite Gangue
Feldspar Gangue
Pyrite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Host and associated rocks

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

Nearby scientific data

(1) -75.55738, 44.47026

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form LINEAR
    Strike N 25 E
    Dip NEARLY VERTICAL
    Width 3.66M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Non-metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Year of first production 1895
Year of last production 1945

Ownership information

  • Type Owner-Operator
    Owner St. Lawrence Graphite Co.
    First year 1940

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface
    Area 0.438HA
    Overall depth 4.57M
    Overall length 152.4M
    Overall width 30.48M

Comments on development

  • IT WAS FIRST WORKED BY CHAMBERLIN, JENKS, AND ROBERTS OF CANTON (1904), THEN PROSPECTED BY THE MACOMB GRAPHITE CO, THEN BY THE POPE MILLS GRAPHITE CO.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    ALLING, H.L., 1918, THE ADIRONDACK GRAPHITE DEPOSITS: NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM BULLETIN 199, P. 111-112

  • Deposit

    LOGAN, W.N., 1904, ECONOMIC PRODUCTS OF ST LAWRENCE COUNTY, NEW YORK: NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM ANNUAL REPORT, VOL. 56, PT. 1, P 123

  • 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 SURVEY BULLETIN 1072-F, P. 401

  • Deposit

    MILLS, F.S., 1908, THE ECONOMIC GEOLOGY OF NORTHERN NEW YORK: THE ENGINEERING AND MINING JOURNAL, VOL. 85, FEB. 22, P 306-308

  • Deposit

    PETERSON, R.B., 1950, THE MINERAL INDUSTRIES OF NEW YORK: NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE, P 76

  • Deposit

    HARTNAGEL, C.A., AND BROUGHTON, J.G., 1951, THE MINING AND QUARRY INDUSTRIES OF NEW YORK STATE, 1937 TO 1948: NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM BULLETIN 343, P 36, 37

Reporter information

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

Beyond USGS

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