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Mount Hope Mine

Past Producer in Washington county in New York, United States with commodities Iron, Quartz, Feldspar, Sulfur-Pyrite
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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. Ownership information
  13. Workings at the site
  14. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10081463
MRDS ID W033504
Record type Site
Current site name Mount Hope Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -73.57176, 43.46665 (WGS84)
Elevation 305
Relative position 4.1 MILES N10W OF BM 366 JUST EAST OF WEST FORT ANN NEW YORK

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Washington(county)

New York(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Putnam Mountain(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Glens Falls(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Glens Falls(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Mid Atlantic(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States New York Washington

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Iron Primary
Quartz Tertiary
Feldspar Tertiary
Sulfur-Pyrite Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Feldspar Ore
Iron Ore
Pyrite Ore
Quartz Ore

Analytical data

Result SAMPLED AVG BETWEEN 35 TO 40% FE

Host and associated rocks

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

Nearby scientific data

(1) -73.57176, 43.46665
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form LODE
    Strike NE-SW
    Dip 5 TO 10 NW
    Thickness 7.62M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Both
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Year of first production 1879
Year of last production 1881

Land status

Ownership category State Park

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner W. P. Ostrander And Co.
  • Type Owner
    Owner Joseph Potter

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface/Underground
    Area 0.158HA
    Overall length 182.88M
    Overall width 9.14M

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    SMOCK, J.C., 1889, IRON MINES AND IRON ORE DISTRICTS IN THE STATE OF NEW YORK: NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM BULLETIN 7, P. 24, MAP.

  • Deposit

    PUTNAM, B.T., 1886, NOTES ON SAMPLES OF IRON ORE COLLECTED IN NEW YORK IN REPORT ON MINING INDUSTRIES OF THE UNITED STATES, BY R. PUMPELLY: CENCUS OFFICE, 10TH U.S. CENCUS, 1880, V. 15, P. 106

  • Deposit

    NEWLAND, D.H., 1908, GEOLOGY OF THE ADIRONDACK MAGNETIC IRON ORES: NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM BULLETIN 119, P 37-38

  • 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 404, 411

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-AUG-1984 Nyahay, Richard E. (Kelly, William M.) New York State Geological Survey

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