Galkins Property

Occurrence in Windsor county in Vermont, United States with commodity Talc-Soapstone
Sections on this page
  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. General comments
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10089896
MRDS ID W044179
Record type Site
Current site name Galkins Property

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -72.67921, 43.3214 (WGS84)
Elevation 600
Relative position 3.15 MILES NORTH, NORTHEAST OF ANDOVER, VT

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Windsor(county)

Vermont(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Andover(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Claremont(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Glens Falls(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

West River-Connecticut River(hydrologic unit)

Upper Connecticut(hydrologic accounting unit)

Connecticut(hydrologic subregion)

New England(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Vermont Windsor

Comments on the location information

  • THE AREA PROSPECTED IS JUST EAST OF A JEEP TRAIL AND SEVERAL HUNDRED FEET EAST OF THE POWER LINE RIGHT OF WAY.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Talc-Soapstone Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Steatite Ore
Talc Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Metasedimentary Rock > Quartzite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Ordovician
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Ordovician
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Schist
    Rock unit name Missisquoi Formation
    Rock description Missisquoi Formation
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -72.67921, 43.3214

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR POD
    Length 965.58M
    Width 121.92M

Comments on the geologic information

  • THE POD OF ULTRAMAFIC ROCK OCCURS AT THE CONTACT BETWEEN TWO DIFFERENT ROCK TYPES OF THE MISSISQUOI FORMATION
  • The Pod of Ultramafic Rock Occurs At the Contact Between Two Different Rock Types of the Missisquoi Formation

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Non-metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Cyprus Mines
  • Type Owner
    Owner Town Of Chester (Glebeland)

Comments on development

  • THE SITE WAS CORE DRILLED IN NOVEMBER OF 1982.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    MORRILL, P. AND CHAFFEE, R., 1964, VERMONT MINES AND MINERAL LOCALITIES: (MONTSHIRE MUSEUM; HANOVER, NH), P. 13.

  • Deposit

    DOLL, C. G. ET AL, 1961, CENTENNIAL GEOLOGIC MAP OF VERMONT: (STATE OF VERMONT; MONTPELIER, VT).

  • Deposit

    RATTE, C. A., 1985, PERSONAL COMMUNICATION.

  • Deposit

    UNPUBLISHED FILE: STATE GEOLOGIST'S OFFICE; MONTPELIER, VT.

  • Deposit

    Morrill, P. And Chaffee, R., 1964, Vermont Mines And Mineral Locations: Montshire Museum, Hanover, New Hampshire, 50 P., Pp. 12-13.

  • Deposit

    Doll, C.G., 1961, Centennial Geologic Map Of Vermont: Vermont Geological Survey, Scale 1:250,000.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit DIMENSIONS OF ULTRAMAFIC BODY IS FROM DOLL'S (1961) MAP.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Editor 01-JAN-2003 L. G. Woodruff U.S. Geological Survey checked references; location; commodities; ore materials
Reporter 01-NOV-1985 McBean, Alan J. (Ratte, Charles A.) Vermont Agency of Environmental Conservation

Beyond USGS

Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.

Operator history (post-MRDS)

MRDS records operators as of each record's last update (≤ 2019). Some of the operators listed here have since changed hands or dissolved:

Curated by qvyshift.com from publicly-reported M&A activity (SEC filings, press releases, USGS Mineral Yearbooks). Not authoritative — verify against primary sources before relying on it. The MSHA panel above is the current authoritative source for actively-permitted mines.