MAGNETITE IRON DEPOSITS OF SOUTHEASTERN NEW YORK 43 
2 The Scott group. About 14 miles east of Sterling lake, and 
approximately 2 miles northeast of the Lake and Sterling mines, a 
series of workings were opened along two adjacent belts of magnetite 
630 feet apart, and slightly converging toward the northeast. Their 
continuity has been disturbed by faulting, which has affected the 
original strike of the two bands. 
The Crossway mine is located at the southern end of the westerly 
belt, just north of the highway. The Patterson mine lies about 600 
feet northeast; it is offset toward the east about 250 feet, and the 
Mountain mine, which may be considered as an extension of it, lies 
a few hundred feet farther north along the same belt. 
The shaft of the Smith mine lies 1310 feet north of the Mountain 
mine workings in the same general line of strike. No additional 
openings were ever made on this westerly belt, but if a line be 
extended from the shaft of the Smith mine northeastwardly in the 
direction of strike, it will intersect a line projected northwestwardly 
along the strike of the northernmost pit of the Long mine, lying on 
the easterly belt. Moreover, dip-needle readings indicate a curving 
line of strike at this point, so it appears probable that this double 
belt of magnetite, although disturbed in continuity by faulting, is 
parabola-shaped with the apex pointing northeast; it is difficult to 
confirm this because of swampy ground and lack of outcrops at 
critical places. 
The easterly belt, which for reasons cited above, is judged by the 
writer to represent the easterly limb of an inherited pitching fold, 
and hence structurally obscure, contains at its northernmost limits 
the Long mine, just mentioned. The strike along the axes of the 
pits of this mine shifts from about 5° east of north at the southern- 
most opening to about 30° west of north at the northernmost open- 
ing, with corresponding changes in dip. The same oblique fault 
which offsets the Crossway and Mountain mines seems to have off- 
set, in like manner the Long and the Scott ore bodies. 
The old shaft of the Scott mine is situated about 2800 feet south 
and 1400 feet west of the south end of the Long workings. 
The Cook mine lies directly southwest of the Scott, along the 
same line of strike; the Cook shaft is 900 feet southwest of the 
Scott shaft. 
These two mines have underground connections. The most south- 
erly mine on this belt is the Augusta, some 1400 feet southwest of 
the Cook. The Hard and the Middle mines are mere prospect pits. 
(See fig. 9.) 
