MAGNETITE IRON DEPOSITS OF SOUTHEASTERN NEW YORK OI 
Of this group only the Cook and the Scott mines have been 
dewatered, and they are the only ones now in operation. The other 
members of the group ceased producing many years ago. 
At the time of the writer’s visit the work of dewatering the Cook 
mine was in progress, but the mine was not in a fit condition for 
inspection. Of this group, therefore, the Scott mine is the only one 
which was inspected underground. Of the others, some were worked 
by shallow open cuts, in which there is not much to be seen, and 
some by inclined shafts sunk down the dip; these are full of water 
and inaccessible. The Cook and the Scott mines are close together 
and connected by underground workings; essentially the same gen- 
eral conditions as to the character of the ore and associated rock 
obtains in each, so that a description of the Scott mine will suffice 
for both. 
The Scott mine (including the Cook and Augusta). ‘This 
mine is the northernmost member of the Augusta-Cook-Scott group, 
the three mines lying so close together as to constitute essentially a 
single working; they all lie on the same body of ore, and two of 
them, the Cook and the Scott, are already connected underground. 
The Scott mine was originally operated through an inclined shaft 
or slope following the dip of the ore, which was not steep at the 
Fig. 10 Generalized form of the Scott-Cook-Augusta ore body. 
The part above the level of the surface of the block has been removed by 
erosion. The ore-body pitches towards the northeast. Offset by faulting is 
not represented. 
