Fern Occurrence

Occurrence 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. Host and associated rocks
  7. Nearby scientific data
  8. Ore body information
  9. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  10. Land status
  11. Links to other databases
  12. Bibliographic references
  13. General comments
  14. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10082186
MRDS ID W044850
Record type Site
Current site name Fern Occurrence
Related records 10175332

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -75.87072, 44.2872 (WGS84)
Elevation 463
Location accuracy 500(meters)
Relative position 3.4 MILES S 39 W BM 1470 ON THE WESTSIDE OF THE CLIFTON AND COLTON TOWN BORDER

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Jefferson(county)

New York(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Redwood(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 1970 EDITION

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Iron Primary

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Ultramafic Intrusive Rock > Pyroxenite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic

Nearby scientific data

(1) -75.87072, 44.2872

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form LENTICULAR
    Length 367.28M
    Width 91.44M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Land status

Ownership category State

Reference information

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit IT REGISTERED AS A ANOMALY DURING THE 1945 AEROMAGNETIC SURVEY DONE BY THE UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-NOV-85 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.