I4 2 NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM 



Iron 54 



Silica 13 



Sulfur 



Phosphorus 



Manganese 



32 57-8t 



34 8.55 



08 . 41 



01 tr. 



29 .50 



Parish ore body. This deposit is 8 miles east of Monterey, on 

 Tracy pond outlet, Clifton township. Its outcrop has been 

 uncovered by trenching for a short distance, but it has not been 

 explored in depth. The width shown is about 8 feet. The deposit 

 appears to have a steep dip so that the actual width is probably 

 near the figure given. The wall rock is fine grained grayish 

 gneiss, while nearby reddish granitic gneiss is exposed, and within 

 a mile distant an area of crystalline limestone and sedimentary 

 schists. The magnetite is mixed with the minerals of the gray 

 gneiss and with red garnet, yet is fairly rich. It has a coarse 

 granular texture. It contains no pyrite so far as observed. It 

 is reported that a line of magnetic attraction can be traced for 800 

 feet north and south of the tract along the course of the vein. The 

 analysis below is from a sample of the ore. 



Iron • 50.3 



Phosphorus. .58 



SALISBURY MINE, HERKIMER COUNTY 



This mine is in the town of Salisbury, 5 miles north of Dolge- 

 ville, the present terminus of the branch railroad running north 

 from Little Falls. It is the only magnetite mine in this section 

 of the Adirondacks that has been actively worked. 



The deposit apparently was discovered about 1840. Vanuxem 

 who has given a brief description of it states that a small amount 

 of ore had been taken out at the time of making his report. 1 It 

 is probable that the old pits located along the outcrop of the ore 

 body date from this period. The quantity of ore mined during the 

 early operations is not a matter of record though the size of the 

 openings leads one to infer that it did not exceed a few thousand tons. 



Geological relations. The locality lies within the Little Falls 

 topographic sheet, the geology of which has been mapped and 

 described by H. P. Cushing. 2 



1 Fourth Annual Report of the Geological Survey of the Third District, 

 1840. 



2 Geology of the Vicinity of Little Falls. X. Y. State Mus. Bui. 77. 1905. 



