1. Mineral Resources
  2. Online Spatial Data
  3. Mineral Resource Data System (MRDS)

The Northern Quarry

Past Producer in St. Lawrence county in New York, United States with commodity Marble, Dimension
Map
XML
JSON
KML
C
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. Mining district
  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 10090007
MRDS ID W044795
Record type Site
Current site name The Northern Quarry

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -75.49042, 44.30359 (WGS84)
Elevation 149
Relative position 2.05 MILES S 34 W OF BM 455 BY RIVERSIDE CEMETERY IN GOUVERNEUR 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

Gouverneur(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
Marble, Dimension Primary

Analytical data

Result 51.45% CA

Host and associated rocks

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

Nearby scientific data

(1) -75.49042, 44.30359
ListMap

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form BLANKET
    Strike E-W
    Dip 80 N

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Non-metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Gouverneur

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Northern New York Marble Co
    First year 1912

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface
    Length 42.67M
    Overall depth 64.01M
    Overall length 42.67M
    Overall width 22.86M

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    LOGAN, W.N., 1904, ECONOMIC PRODUCTS OF ST LAWRENCE COUNTY, NEW YORK: NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM ANNUAL REPORT, VOL 56, PT. 1, P 119-120

  • 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. 420

  • Deposit

    NEWLAND, D.H., 1916, THE QUARRY MATERIALS OF NEW YORK-GRANITE, GNEISS, TRAP, AND MARBLE: NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM BULLETIN 181, P. 185, 186, 190-191

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-DEC-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.

Maps centered on this site