Cheney Pond Ore Body

Occurrence in Essex county in New York, United States with commodities Titanium, Metal, Iron, Vanadium
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. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  10. Mining district
  11. Links to other databases
  12. Bibliographic references
  13. General comments
  14. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10067870
MRDS ID W000744
Record type Site
Current site name Cheney Pond Ore Body

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -74.08288, 44.04998 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Essex(county)

New York(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Mount Adams(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Tupper Lake(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Ogdensburg(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper Hudson(hydrologic unit)

Upper Hudson(hydrologic accounting unit)

Upper Hudson(hydrologic subregion)

Mid Atlantic(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States New York Essex

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Titanium, Metal Critical Primary
Iron Primary
Vanadium Critical Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Apatite Gangue
Feldspar Gangue
Garnet Gangue
Pyroxene Gangue
Spinel Gangue
Ilmenite Unknown

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Gabbro
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic

Nearby scientific data

(1) -74.08288, 44.04998

Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • GEOL.DESC: IGNEOUS-ANORTHOSITE-NORITE

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Sanford Lake(Tahawus) District

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    1A. GROSS, S.O., 1968, TITANIFEROUS ORES OF THE SANFORD LAKE DISTRICT,NEW YORK, IN ORE DEPOSITS OF THE UNITED STATES, 1933-1967(GRATON-SALES VOLUME), VOL. 1: NEW YORK, A.I.M.E. INC., P. 140-153.

  • Deposit

    1B.ENGINEERING AND MINING JOURNAL, 1955, NATIONAL LEAD CO.: ENG. AND MINING JOUR., V. 156, NO. 10, P. 73.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit NO ANORTHOSITE TITANIUM DEPOSITS ARE PRESENT HERE. ESTIMATED RESERVES AS OF 1955 WERE 100,000,000 TONS OF TITANIFEROUS MATERIAL WITH 50 MILLION TONS OF ILMENITE (1B) ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-NOV-1972 Cooper, Margaret U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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