Education Department Bulletin 



Published fortnightly by the University of the State of New York 



Entered as second-class matter June 24, 1908, at the Post Office at Albany, N. Y. 



under the act of July 16, 1894 



No. 522 



ALBANY, N. Y. 



July i, 1912 



New York State Museum 



John M. Clarke, Director 



Museum Bulletin 161 



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THE MINING AND QUARRY INDUSTRY 



OF 



NEW YORK STATE 



REPORT OF OPERATIONS AND PRODUCTION DURING 191 1 



BY 



D. H. NEWLAND 



PAGE 



Introduction 5 



Mineral production of New York 9 



Cement 10 



Clay 12 



Production of clay materials .... 13 



Manufacture of building brick. . 16 



Other clay materials 20 



Pottery 21 



Crude clay 22 



Emery 22 



Feldspar 23 



Notes on the occurrence of feld- 

 spar in New York 26 



Garnet 30 



Graphite 3 2 



Gypsum 34 



Iron ore 37 



Mineral paint 40 



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Mineral waters 42 



Natural gas 45 



Petroleum 49 



Pyrite 52 



Salt 55 



Sand and gravel 60 



Sand-lime brick 63 



Stone 63 



Production of stone 65 



Granite 65 



Limestone 77 



Marble 84 



Sandstone 86 



Trap 90 



Talc 91 



The Gouverneur talc district .... 93 



Zinc 101 



Index 107 



