LOCATION OF IRON ORE IN NEW YORK 



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An aluminous magnetic ore occurs near Peekskill, Westchester 

 county; it is self-fluxing, but not now worked except for emery, 

 though it occurs in large deposits. 



Hematite specular iron ore, red hematite. — Gouverneur, Fuller- 

 ville, St. Lawrence county ; Philadelphia and Antwerp, Jefferson 

 county, productive mines. It occurs in Hermon, Edwards, 

 Fowler and Canton, in St. Lawrence county. 



Hematite fossil ore, lenticular clay iron ore. — This ore has been 

 worked chiefly at Yerona, Westmoreland, New Hartford and 

 Clinton, Oneida county ; Ontario, Wayne county. It also occurs 

 in Madison county in thin beds. 



Zimonite, brown hematite. — This ore occurs at East Fishkill, 

 Sylvan lake, Beekman, Pawling, Dover, Unionvale, Amenia, 

 Sharon, Millerton and Mount Riga, in Dutchess county; Copake, 

 Ancram and Boston Corners, in Columbia county ; the mines at 

 these localities produce largely. Besides these are the Townsend 

 mine, Cornwall, Orange county ; Castleton Four Corners, New 

 Dorp and Todt Hill, Staten Island. 



Zimonite, bog iron ore. — There are numerous localities and 

 many small deposits of this ore in the northern and eastern parts 

 of the State. It was formerly worked to a small extent, but is 

 now abandoned. 



Siderite, spathic iron ore, carbonate of iron. — -Near Catskill 

 Station and Linlithgo, Columbia county, an immense deposit has 

 been developed ; at Napanock, Ulster county, a deposit was 

 formerly worked ; in Dutchess county it occurs in small quantity; 

 at Antwerp, Jefferson county, in crystals only. 



