Chicago Paper - The Geology of the Magnetites near Port Henry, N. Y., and Especially those of Mineville

PARE Introductory Note. ........... 147 General Topography. ..... ....... 148 General Distribution of the Mines. .149 General Geology.............151 The Non-Titaniferons Ore-Bodies. .1. 54 The Lee Mine. ..........154 The Cheever Mine...........15.5 The Pilfershire and Pease Pits.........1.56 The Mineville and Barton Hill Groups........1.56 Introductory. ........... 156 The Mineville Group..........157 The Miller Pit..........158 Old Bed or Mine 23 .........166 Relations of Old Bed to Miller Pit. ..168 The "21 "-Bonanza-Joker Ore-Body,......168 Summary. .......... 170 O'Neill Shaft and Cook Shaft, .......171 The Barton Hill Group..........172 The Mines on Barton Hill........172 Fisher Hill and Burt Lot........173 The Chemical Composition of the Ores. .. 173 The Geological Relations of the Ores. .176 The "21 "Gneiss..........176 The Orchard Gneiss. . . . . . . . .178 The Barton Gneiss..........178 The Gabbro and Gabbro-Gneiss. . . . . . .180 Minor Rocks...........182 Mineralogical Relations of the Gneisses. ..183 Stratigraphical Relations of the Gneisses. . . . 183 The Origin of the Ores. ..190 Review of Hypotheses . . . . . . 191 Interpretation of the Ore-Bodies as Contact-Deposits on Gabbro,. 193 The Mineralogy of the Mines. . . .......195 Bibliography.............201