[Rockhounds] Bog Iron in the Northeast

[Paul]

in Bog Iron in the Northeast
On Tue Jul 17 11:22:36 PDT 2018
MEM  (Eman) wrote:

 >BTW there was also suposidlt a "tin" mine in Garrison,
 > NY across from Westpoint but the adit is back filled
 > and i couldn't locate any ore samples.Who knows
 > how accurate these "historical" tradition's may be
 > without, verifying through early geological reports.

I came across this article about mining in Putman County.

Mining: A Journey Through Local History Underground
By James Kelly and Michael Turton, Highlands Current
January 14, 2031
http://highlandscurrent.com/2013/01/14/mining-a-journey-through-local-history-underground/

I found:

Emmons, S. F., and Hayes, C. W., 1904, Contributions to
Economic Geology 1904. Series A, Economic Geology, 53,
United States Geological survey Bulletin No. 260.
https://pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/b260

(PDF file of above publication in Google Books)

In it, there is:

p. 163 - "New York and New Jersey. Tin has been
reported from the highlands of New York and New
Jersey as sparingly present in the magnetite deposits."

This would suggest to me that that the tin was being
recovered from a magnetite mine as a byproduct.

I could not get access to either:

Garrison, Frank Lynwood, 1904, Tin in the United States.
Engineering and Mining Journal. vol 78, 1904, pp. 830-832;

Cook, R.B., 2008. Magnetite: Zinc Corporation of
America Mine No. 4, St. Lawrence County, New York.
Rocks & Minerals, 83(3), pp.240-247;

or

Whitney, Philip R., 1999, A tin- and tungsten-bearing
skarn occurrence in the Adirondack Highlands, New York
Abstracts with Programs - Geological Society of America,
March, 1999, Vol. 31, Issue 2, pp. 79

Yours,

Paul H.