Jayville Mines

Past Producer in St. Lawrence county in New York, United States with commodity Iron
Sections on this page
  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Materials information
  7. Nearby scientific data
  8. Ore body information
  9. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  10. Land status
  11. Ownership information
  12. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10082148
MRDS ID W044797
Record type Site
Current site name Jayville Mines
Related records 10272637

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -75.18931, 44.1597 (WGS84)
Elevation 347
Relative position 1.04 MILES S 88.5 E OF BM 1093 IN KALURAH, 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

Fine(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

  • 1:24000 QUADRANGLE MAP IS A 1966 EDITION

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Iron Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Magnetite Ore
Chlorite Gangue

Analytical data

Result 38% FE (LEONARD, BUDDINGTON, 1964)

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form LENTICULAR SHOOTS
    Strike N 30 E
    Dip 60 NW
    Plunge direction NORTHWARD

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Medium
Significant No
Discovery year 1854
Discoverer Z.H. Benton

Land status

Ownership category State

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Jones And Laughlin Steel Corp.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-AUG-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.