Devils Elbow

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. Materials information
  7. Host and associated rocks
  8. Nearby scientific data
  9. Geologic structures
  10. Ore body information
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Land status
  13. Workings at the site
  14. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10096659
MRDS ID W044866
Record type Site
Current site name Devils Elbow
Related records 10257220

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -75.18847, 44.44415 (WGS84)
Elevation 177
Relative position 2.23 MILES N 58 W OF BM 582 IN RUSSELL 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

Hermon(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
Iron Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chlorite Gangue
Pyrite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Host and associated rocks

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

Nearby scientific data

(1) -75.18847, 44.44415

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Deposit Follows A Joint Trending N 40 W And Diping 80 Ne In The Marble

Ore body information

  • General form STRINGER

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Land status

Ownership category Private

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface
    Length 4.57M
    Overall depth 1.83M
    Overall length 4.57M

Comments on the workings information

  • TWO SHALLOW PIT ARE EVIDENT, ONE IS OVERGROWN WITH BRUSH.

Reference information

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-DEC-1985 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.