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Mining conditions. No active mining has been undertaken at 

 the property, but the writer looked the situation over with such a 

 prospect in mind. The north road is the one employed by the 

 farmer and is passable even for a motor car. It is 3^4 miles by 

 dirt road to the state road at Stickney Bridge, then 2 miles to 

 Ausable Forks, the terminal of the Ausable branch of the Delaware 

 and Hudson Railroad. 



At the property there is not a sufficient supply of water for the 

 wet process of concentration, nor is there water power. At Ausable 

 Forks, however, there is probably sufficient water power for a 

 finishing mill and in addition electric power is available. 



Amount of ore. The quartzite ore is the only attractive material. 

 It is impossible to say how much there is of it. The outcrop 

 measures some 20 feet in width, while the extent along the strike is 

 difficult to determine. It is possible that the Gulf and the South 

 gulf faults delimit the amount of ore. The high angle of the dip is 

 not favorable to mining. Considerable exploration will be necessary 

 before anything more definite can be stated. 



The Welch Prospect 



This property is in the township of Moriah, Essex county, 3 

 miles southwest of Mineville, on the Welch farm, Newland 1 reports 

 that " some prospect work has been done on a bed of graphitic lime- 

 stone . . . which outcrops along the crest of a low hill and is 

 accompanied by pyritous gneisses which are also more or less 

 graphitic. In one pit a very rich band of limestone has been found, 

 giving assays as high as 15 per cent graphite. The flakes are large 

 and are built up of many laminae into comparatively thick plates. 

 There is little mica in the rock, the accompanying minerals com- 

 prising pyroxene, serpentine, pyrite, tourmaline and quartz. The 

 mining rights on the. property are owned by the firm of Witherbee, 

 Sherman & Company of Mineville." 



It would appear from the above that this bed of limestone has 

 been enriched by contact with some igneous rock, presumably peg- 

 matite. 



The Wilmington Prospect 



This property is located in the township of Wilmington, Essex 

 county, about 2^ miles west-northwest of the town of Wilmington. 

 It is situated at an elevation of about 2800 feet on the shoulder 



1 Newland, D. H., N. Y. State Mus. Bui. 102, p. 76. 



