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Hematite from
Empire State No. 2 Mine, Balmat, Fowler, St. Lawrence County, New York, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Hematite
Formula:Fe2O3
Comments:As grains and reddish coatings in a rock with willemite and chlorite found on the wall of the Gleason open pit by Howard Merk in 1993.
Habit:grains, coatings
Colour:black, red
Quality for species:Rock forming mineral/non-crystalline/little interest for collectors.(##)
Abundance at site:Rare
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Willemite2
Chlorite Group2
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Hematite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Empire State No. 2 Mine, Balmat, Fowler, St. Lawrence County, New York, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1615302
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1615302:0
GUID (UUID V4):0
Nearest other occurrences of Hematite
1.4km (0.9 miles) Sylvia Lake Mine (deposit), Sylvia Lake, Fowler, St. Lawrence County, New York, USA
1.5km (0.9 miles) Empire State No. 4 Mine, Balmat, Fowler, St. Lawrence County, New York, USA
1.6km (1.0 miles) ZCA No. 3 Mine, Balmat, Fowler, St. Lawrence County, New York, USA
2.1km (1.3 miles) Fowler, St. Lawrence County, New York, USA
6.3km (3.9 miles) Balmat-Edwards Zinc Mining District, St. Lawrence County, New York, USA
6.6km (4.1 miles) Whitton prospect, Rose Road, Pitcairn, St. Lawrence County, New York, USA
9.1km (5.6 miles) Toothaker Creek prospects, Cooper Hill, Toothaker Creek State Forest, Pitcairn, St. Lawrence County, New York, USA
9.5km (5.9 miles) Chub Lake prospects, Chub Lake, Hailesboro, Fowler, St. Lawrence County, New York, USA
10.1km (6.3 miles) Toothaker Pond prospect, Cooper Hill, Toothaker Creek State Forest, Pitcairn, St. Lawrence County, New York, USA
11.0km (6.8 miles) Kearney Mine, Spragueville, Rossie, St. Lawrence County, New York, USA
References
Former Howard Merk collectionIdentified by Harold Moritz: Visual Identification
 
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