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New Bed

Past Producer in Essex county in New York, United States with commodity Iron
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  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. Ownership information
  12. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10082276
MRDS ID W044989
Record type Site
Current site name New Bed
Alternate or previous names Barton Hill Deposit

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -73.53786, 44.09136 (WGS84)
Elevation 402
Relative position 1.06 MILES N 82 W OF BM 1200 IN MINEVILLE NEW YORK

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Essex(county)

New York(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Witherbee(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Lake Champlain South(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Lake Champlain(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Mid Atlantic(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States New York Essex

Comments on the location information

  • 1:62500 QUADRANGLE MAP IS A 1955 EDITION

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Iron Primary

Host and associated rocks

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

Nearby scientific data

(1) Glacial and Alluvial Deposits
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form LENTICULAR

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Large
Significant No
Discovery year 1844
Discoverer E.E. Sanford
Year of first production 1845

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Owner-Operator
    Owner Republic Steel Corp

Comments on the workings information

  • THE WORKINGS CONSISTED OF WALDERS PIT (UPPER VEIN), WASSONS AND DALTON'S PIT (MIDDE VEIN), AND BIG PIT (LOWER VEIN). IT WAS ALSO WORKED IN THE LITTLE PIT AND BY ROE SHAFT.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    BIRKINBINE, J., 1890, CRYSTALLINE MAGNETITE IN THE PORTHENRY NEW YORK MINES: AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF MINING AND ENGINEERING TRANSACTION, VOL. 18, P. 751-753

  • Deposit

    GRANBERRY, J.H., 1906, MAGNETITE DEPOSITS AND MINING AT MINEVILLE, N.Y.: ENGINEERING AND MINING JOURNAL, VOL. 81, PART II, P. 988-989

  • Deposit

    KEMP, J.F., 1898, THE GEOLOGY OF THE MAGNETITES NEAR PORTHENRY, N.Y. AND ESPECIALLY THOSE OF MINEVILLE: AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF MINING AND ENGINEERING TRANSACTIONS, VOL 27, P 172

  • 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. 407

  • Deposit

    NEWLAND, D.H., 1908, GEOLOGY OF THE ADIRONDACK MAGNETIC IRON ORES: WITH AN REPORT ON THE MINEVILLE PORTHENRY MINE GROUP, BY J.F. KEMP: NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM BULLETIN 119, P. 72

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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