Mine detail: Champlain Graphite Co. Mine

Previously called 'Tinsman Graphite Mine'

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Location

Lat / long:

43.54692, -73.4687

Resource(B)

Primary:	Graphite
Tertiary:	Sulfur-Pyrite
Ore:	Graphite
Gangue:	Biotite, Garnet, Quartz
Orebody form:	LINEAR
Other material:	Pyrite

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Deposit type:	Metamorphic
Production size:	Small
Development status:	Past Producer

Geology

Host rock:	Grenville Series; Schist, Quartzite, Marble
Host type:	Schist
Structure:	Faulting In Pit Part Of Graben Forming Lake Champlain
Tectonic:	Adirondack Highlands
Alteration processes:	Oxidation Of Pyrite To Iron Oxide And Sulfides

References

MRDS	W032237
DEP	10106254
Reference	ALLING, H.L., 1918, THE ADIRONDACK GRAPHITE DEPOSITS, N.Y. ST. MUSE UM BULL., NO. 199, 150 P
Reporter	Sutphin, David M.