USGS NEW YORK MINING Rare Earths at MINEVILLE, ESSEX Co Vintage 1956 Report

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SCARCE VINTAGE ITEM!!
This is USGS Bulletin 1046-B,
Rare-Earth-Bearing Apatite at Mineville, Essex County, New York
. Published in 1956, there can’t be many of these around.
This 16-page report documents this unusual occurrence of rare earth metals in apatite at some of the iron ore deposits in the Adirondack mountains of New York. Metals such as yttrium, rare earths, thorium, and uranium are present in ores from the
Old Bed
and
Smith
mines. In addition, the uncommon minerals
bastnaesite
and
monazite
are present in these rocks. The
Cheever
,
Sherman
,
Pilfershire
and
Old Joker
mines are also discussed in the text, as well as the
Fisher Hill deposit
. All in all this is a very interesting and rare publication on a historic mining area.
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