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NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM 



Production of talc in New York 



882 

 883 

 884 

 885 

 886 

 887 

 888 

 889 

 890 

 891 

 892 



893 

 894 



895 

 896 



897 



SHORT 



TONS 



6 



000 



6 



000 



10 



000 



10 



000 



12 



000 



15 



000 



20 



000 



23 



476 



41 



354 



53 



054 



41 



925 



36 



500 



50 



500 



40 



000 



46 089 



57 



009 



VALUE 



$75 000 

 75 000 

 no 000 

 no 000 

 125 000 

 160 000 

 210 000 

 244 170 

 389 196 

 493 068 

 472 485 

 337 625 

 454 500 

 320 000 

 399 443 

 396 936 



YEAR 



1898 

 1899 

 1900 

 I9OI 

 1902 

 1903 

 1904 



1905 

 1906 

 1907 

 1908 

 1909 

 19IO 

 I9II 

 1912 

 I913 



SHORT 

 TONS 



54 356 

 54 655 



63 500 



62 200 

 71 100 



60 230 

 65 000 

 67 000 



64 200 

 59 000 

 70 739 

 50 000 



65 000 

 65 000 



61 619 



63 000 



HI I 430 

 438 150 

 499 500 

 483 600 

 615 350 

 421 600 

 455 000 

 519 250 

 541 600 

 501 500 

 697 390 

 450 000 

 552 500 

 552 500 

 511 437 

 551 250 



ZINC 



There were no commercial shipments of zinc ore last year from 

 deposits within the State, although a quantity of blende was ex- 

 tracted in the course of underground development at Edwards. The 

 product was held for mill treatment. The results of recent activity 

 in the search for zinc ores in southern St Lawrence county have 

 been quite favorable, and there is good prospect that a stable 

 mining industry will be developed there in the near future. The 

 industry will be a small one, but with the exceptional conditions for 

 cheap mining and milling it should prove profitable. The main 

 obstacle that has presented itself thus far in the development of 

 the district is incident to the character of the ore which is usually 

 a fine-grained mixture of blende and pyrite in a limestone gangue. 

 The separation of the pyrite and blende has proved more difficult 

 than was anticipated and has necessitated a good deal of experi- 

 mental work at the expense of commercial operations. 



The developments so far have been carried on by the Northern 

 Ore Co., who some time ago acquired properties in the vicinity of 

 Edwards, the terminus of a branch railroad from Gouverneur that 

 serves the talc district. The company has concentrated attention 

 upon outcrops of blende on the Brown farm, but has other holdings 

 that show more or less ore. The progress of underground work 

 has been related in previous issues of this report, more particularly 



