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Styles Prospect

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

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10082126
MRDS ID W044750
Record type Site
Current site name Styles Prospect
Related records 10199823

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -75.34015, 44.44026 (WGS84)
Elevation 155
Relative position 3.2 MILES N 53 E OF BM 450 IN BIGELOW, N.Y.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

St. Lawrence(county)

New York(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Bigelow(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

Comments on the location information

  • 3 MILES NORTHEAST OF RICHVILLE, IT IS NEAR THE CONSPICUOUS SOUTHWEST POINTING ELBOW OF INDIAN CREEK

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Sulfur-Pyrite Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chlorite Gangue
Feldspar Gangue
Graphite Gangue

Analytical data

Result 15.2% S (PRUCHA, 1957)

Host and associated rocks

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

Nearby scientific data

(1) Biotite-quartz-plagioclase paragneiss
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form VEINS, KNOTS, STRINGERS
    Strike N 50 E
    Dip 40 NORTHWEST
    Plunge 22 E
    Plunge direction 15 N
    Thickness 2.74M
    Length 4.57M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Gouverneur

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 13.72M

Comments on the workings information

  • AN INCLINED SHAFT WAS SUNK INTO THE BANK ABOVE THE CREEK IN 1904 AND WORKED DOWN DIP. SHAFT FLOODED AS OF 1956 (PRUCHA)

Comments on development

  • EXPLORATORY WORK DONE IN 1904

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    BUDDINGTON, A.F., 1917, REPORT ON THE PYRITE AND PYRRHOTITE VEINS IN JEFFERSON AND ST LAWRENCE COUNTIES, NEW YORK; NEW YORK STATE DEFENSE COUNCIL BULLETIN NO. 1, P 26-27

  • Deposit

    PRUCHA, J.J., 1957, PYRITE DEPOSITS OF ST LAWRENCE AND JEFFERSON COUNTIES, NEW YORK, NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM BULLETIN 357, P 61-62, PLATE 16

  • Deposit

    SMYTH, C.H., JR., 1912, ON THE GENESIS OF THE PYRITE DEPOSITS OF ST LAWRENCE COUNTY; NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM BULLETIN 158, P 151-152, FIG 12, 13

  • 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 425

Reporter information

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

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