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NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM 



Barite, barytes, heavy spar; sulphate of baryta. — Ancram, 

 Columbia county ; near Schoharie Courthouse, with strontianite, 

 in Water-lime group ; Carlisle, Schoharie county ; near Little 

 Falls and Fairfield, Herkimer county ; near Syracuse, Onondaga 

 county ; Pillar Point, Jefferson county, in large veins ; Hammond 

 and De Kalb, St. Lawrence county. 



Magnesite, carbonate of magnesia. — Near Rye, "Westchester 

 county ; Warwick, Orange county ; New Rochelle, Westchester 

 county ; Stony Point, Rockland county ; Serpentine hills, Staten 

 Island ; everywhere in thin seams and strings. 



Muscovite, mica. — As a rock constituent, common In large 

 plates near Warwick and at Greenwood at Mount Basha pond, in 

 Orange county; Pleasantville, Westchester county, once opened 

 and mined ; Henderson, Jefferson county ; Potsdam and Edwards, 

 in St. Lawrence county. 



Serpentine. — Staten Island, near New Rochelle and near Rye, 

 Westchester county ; Phillipstown, Putnam county ; near Amity, 

 Orange county, verd antique ; Johnsburg and Warrensburg, War- 

 ren county ; Shelving rock, Lake George, Washington county ; 

 Gouverneur, Fowler, Edwards and Pitcairn townships, in St. 

 Lawrence county ; other localities of occurrence in small quantity. 



Coal and Lignite. 



Coal and lignite, while they occur in New York, can never be 

 found in commercial quantities. The coal measures of Penn- 

 sylvania are not found north of the boundary line between Penn- 

 sylvania and New York, and what coal has been discovered in 

 the latter State is in older formations which do not contain this 

 valuable mineral in commercial quantities. Many thousands of 

 dollars have been spent in fruitless efforts to obtain eoal in New 

 York, but year after year persons appear in the field who seem 

 anxious to pay for their own experience. It can not be too 

 strongly urged upon the attention of the people of the State that 

 it is absolutely useless to seek for coal in New York. 



Goal. — Woodstock, Ulster county, thin vein in Catskills, 

 worked out ; in the seams interstratified with shales, in Chautau- 

 qua, Erie, Livingston and Seneca counties. 



Lignite, brown coal. — Near Rossville, Staten Island, thin seam 

 in clay ; also in Suffolk county in clays. 



