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General Bush Copper Mine

Past Producer in Dutchess county in New York, United States with commodity Copper
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  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. Controls for ore emplacement
  9. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  10. Mining district
  11. Links to other databases
  12. Bibliographic references
  13. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10067357
MRDS ID W000091
Record type Site
Current site name General Bush Copper Mine
Related records 10127320

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -73.56372, 41.84943 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Dutchess(county)

New York(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Amenia(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Waterbury(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Hartford(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Housatonic(hydrologic unit)

Connecticut Coastal(hydrologic accounting unit)

Connecticut Coastal(hydrologic subregion)

New England(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States New York Dutchess

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary

Host and associated rocks

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

Nearby scientific data

(1) -73.56372, 41.84943
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Economic information

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Unknown

Comments on the geologic information

  • GEOL.DESC: COPPER MINE 100 RODS WEST OF AMENIA NEAR CONTACT OF TWO FORMATIONS.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No
Production years 1818

Mining district

District name Southeast New York

Comments on the production information

  • A SMALL AMOUNT OF HIGH-GRADE CU ORE WAS PRODUCED.

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • NO FIGURES; ESTIMATE SMALL HIGH GRADE ORE RESERVES; NO ESTIMATE FOR LOW GRADE RESOURCES, STUDY NEEDED

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    MATHER, W. W., 1838, "REPORT 1ST GEOL. DIST. N.Y.S.," N.Y. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY, V.2, PG 17

  • Production

    MATHER, 1838

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-DEC-1971 D'Agostino, John P. U.S. Geological Survey

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