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Ontario Talc Mine

Past Producer in St. Lawrence county in New York, United States with commodity Talc-Soapstone
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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. Mining district
  11. Land status
  12. Ownership information
  13. Workings at the site
  14. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10090013
MRDS ID W044887
Record type Site
Current site name Ontario Talc Mine
Alternate or previous names Potter Mine, No. 4 Mine, Little York Mine
Related records 10175294

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -75.3557, 44.27887 (WGS84)
Elevation 195
Relative position 1.25 MILES S 25 E OF BM 614 IN EMERYVILLE 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

Edwards(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

  • IT IS LOCATED ON STATE ROUTE 58, JUST WEST OF THE WEST BRANCH OF THE OSWEBATCHIE RIVER AND 1 3/4 MILES EAST OF THE VILLAGE OF FOWLER

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Talc-Soapstone Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • IT YIELDED A WHITE AND VERY UNIFORM PRODUCT IN WHICH THERE IS A LARGE PROPORTION OF FIBER.

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Metasedimentary Rock > Marble
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Eoarchean

Nearby scientific data

(1) -75.3557, 44.27887
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form LENSE
    Strike EAST-NORTHEAST
    Dip MODERATELY NORTHWARD
    Plunge direction NORTH-NORTHEAST
    Thickness 7.62M
    Length 441.96M
    Width 45.72M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Non-metallic
Deposit size Medium
Significant No
Year of first production 1885

Mining district

District name Gouverneur

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Ontario Talc Co. Loomis Talc Co,
    First year 1917

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Area 0.378HA
    Overall depth 91.44M
    Overall length 1313.69M
    Overall width 3.05M

Comments on the workings information

  • 6 LEVELS TURNED, OPERATED ON LEVELS 3 TO 6. THE FIRST FOUR WERE TURNED BY ONTARIO TALC, THE LAST TWO WERE DEVELOPED BY LOOMIS TALC CO.

Comments on development

  • MINE WAS OPERATED UNTIL 1917 BY THE ONTARIO TALC CORP. THEREAFTER IT WAS CLOSED UNTIL THE SPRING OF 1940 WHEN LOOMIS TALC CORP TOOK IT OVER.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

Reporter information

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

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