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De Kalb Deposit

Past Producer in St. Lawrence county in New York, United States with commodities Feldspar, Quartz
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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. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10082192
MRDS ID W044858
Record type Site
Current site name De Kalb Deposit
Alternate or previous names Mc Lear Deposit, Rowland Deposit
Related records 10272387

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -75.3107, 44.45887 (WGS84)
Elevation 155
Relative position 3.85 MILES N 54 E OF BM 450 IN BIGELOW 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

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

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Feldspar Primary
Quartz Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Diopside Gangue
Phlogopite Gangue
Pyrite Gangue
Pyrrhotite Gangue
Serpentine Gangue
Talc Gangue
Tourmaline Gangue
Tremolite Gangue

Host and associated rocks

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

Nearby scientific data

(1) -75.3107, 44.45887
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form SHEETLIKE
    Strike N 65 E
    Dip 45-90 S
    Length 294.13M
    Width 18.29M
    Depth to bottom 21.34M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Non-metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1907
Discoverer J.H Mclear
Year of first production 1908
Year of last production 1938

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Green Hill Mining Co
    First year 1933

Comments on the workings information

  • IT CONSISTED OF ONE SHAFT AND ONE INCLINE. THE SHAFT HAD TWO LEVELS

Comments on development

  • WHITE HILL MINERAL CO WAS THE FIRST OPERATER OF THE DEPOSIT (1929)

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • 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 393

  • Deposit

    NEWLAND, D.H., 1916, QUARRY MATERIALS OF NEW YORK-GRANITE, GNEISS, TRAP, AND MARBLE: NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM BULLETIN 181, P 169-170

  • Deposit

    SHAUB, B.M, 1929, A UNIQUE FELDSPAR DEPOSIT NEAR DE KALB JUNCTION, NY.: ECONOMIC GEOLOGY, VOL. 24, NO.1, P 68-89

  • Deposit

    SHAUB, B.M., 1940, AGE OF URANITE FROM MCLEAR PEGMATITE NEAR RICHVILLE STATION, ST LAWRENCE COUNTY, NEW YORK: AMERICAN MINERALOGIST, VOL. 25, NO 7. P 480-487

  • Deposit

    TAN, LI-PING, 1966, MAJOR PEGMATITE DEPOSITS OF NEW YORK STATE: NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM BULLETIN 408, P77-79

Reporter information

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

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