Cheshire Barytes Company Mine
Cheshire, Connecticut
41.5191°N 72.9117°W
Mine Overview
The Cheshire Barytes Company Mine is near Cheshire, Connecticut. Historically the site has been part of the Cheshire Mining District. The Cheshire Barytes Company Mine was closed at the time of data entry with no known plans to re-open. Past operations took place from 1868 to 1872, 1873 to 1878. The ore mined is composed of barite. Associated rock in this area is diabase from the Upper Triassic epoch 237.00 to 201.30 million years ago. The New England Upland Section of the Appalachian Highlands characterize the geomorphology of the surrounding area.
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Cheshire Barytes Company Mine Near Cheshire, Connecticut
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Commodities
Additional textual information about a site or mine.
- Commodity Type Importance
- Barium-Barite Non-Metallic Primary
- Copper Metallic Tertiary
- Silver Metallic Tertiary
- Strontium Non-Metallic Tertiary
Deposit
FRITTS, 1963, MAP AT 1:24, 000, LOCATES SHAFT AND TWO DUMPS BY SYMBOLS. FRITTS, 1962, MAP AT ABOUT 1:50, 000, LOCATES SHAFT BY SYMBOL, PG. 8, 9. CHESHIRE BARYTES MINE DUMP ASSAY SAMPLES, USGS LAB FILES, NOS. BCT 189, 190 IN HM 3336.; INFORMATION SOURCE: 1 PUB LIT.
Location Info
- New Haven , Connecticut County / State
- Continent Country State County
- North America The United States Connecticut New Haven
Development
TOTAL$: US
Geology
WEST ROCK DIABASE SILL, ABOUT 500 FEET THICK, INTRUDES NEW HAVEN ARKOSE, SEVERAL THOUSAND FEET THICK, OCCUPYING CONN. VALLEY GRABEN. AREA UNDERLAIN BY EITHER SILURIAN AND DEVONIAN WEPAWAUG SCHIST OR CAMBRIAN AND ORDOVICIAN SOUTHINGTON MOUNTAIN SCHIST, WHICH INCLUDES ORDOVICIAN OR DEVONIAN PROJECT GNEISS.
Rocks
Geological materials at the site.
- Class? 1st Order Name? 2nd Order Name? 3rd Order Name? 4th Order Name? Most Specific Name? Begin Time End Time Description?
- Associated Rock Plutonic Rock Mafic Intrusive Rock Diorite - Diabase Upper Triassic Upper Triassic -
- Host Rock Sedimentary Rock Clastic Sedimentary Rock Arkose - Arkose - - -
- Mineralization - - - - - Upper Triassic Upper Triassic -
Physiography
Physiographic area where the resource is found.
- Division Province? Section
- Appalachian Highlands New England Province New England Upland Section
Ore Control
Controls on emplacement of ore such as faults or other structural features.
- Text?
- Permeable Sandstone Associated With Thick Intrusive Diabase Sill
Reserve-resource
FIGURES LACKING, BUT FRITTS INDICATES RESERVES LOW AND MINING COST HIGH.
Nearby Deposits
Other deposits in the same region.
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Unnamed Copper Prospect
- Copper commodity Site type Occurrence status
- New Haven, Connecticut
- Void Filling And Replacement
- 2.20 miles
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New Haven Mineral Company Barite Mine
- Barium-Barite commodity Site type Mine status
- New Haven, Connecticut
- 2.32 miles
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Jinny Hill Barite Mine
- Barium-Barite commodity Site type Mine status
- New Haven, Connecticut
- Underground
- 2.89 miles
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Bellamy-Copper Valley Mine
- Copper commodity Site type Mine status
- New Haven, Connecticut
- Void Filling And Replacement
- Surface And Underground
- 3.20 miles
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Copper Valley Mine
- Copper commodity Site type Mine status
- New Haven, Connecticut
- Underground
- 3.23 miles
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Gaylord Copper Prospect
- Copper commodity Site type Mine status
- New Haven, Connecticut
- Void Filling And Replacement
- 3.64 miles
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Cross-Rock Copper Mine
- Copper commodity Site type Mine status
- New Haven, Connecticut
- Void Filling And Replacement
- Surface
- 4.26 miles
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Golden Parlour Copper Mine
- Copper commodity Site type Mine status
- New Haven, Connecticut
- Surface
- 4.69 miles
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Tallmans Copper Mine
- Copper commodity Site type Mine status
- New Haven, Connecticut
- Void Filling And Replacement
- Underground
- 5.18 miles
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Townsend Property
- Copper commodity Site type Occurrence status
- New Haven, Connecticut
- Void Filling And Replacement
- 5.54 miles
Nearby Places
- Cheshire (1.50 miles away)
- Prospect (3.65 miles away)
- Meriden (5.57 miles away)
- Southington (5.62 miles away)
- Wallingford (6.28 miles away)
- Wolcott (6.93 miles away)
- Naugatuck (7.54 miles away)
- Waterbury (7.71 miles away)
- Bethany (8.04 miles away)
- Hamden (8.54 miles away)
- North Haven (9.26 miles away)
- Beacon Falls (9.42 miles away)
- Middlefield (10.33 miles away)
- Oakville (10.34 miles away)
- Bristol (10.72 miles away)
- Kensington (10.91 miles away)
- Plainville (11.08 miles away)
- Berlin (11.12 miles away)
- Middlebury (11.18 miles away)
- New Britain (11.95 miles away)
- Seymour (11.99 miles away)
- Terryville (12.12 miles away)
- Oxford (12.13 miles away)
- Durham (12.20 miles away)
Nearby Mining Districts
- Cheshire Mining District (0 miles away)
- Meriden Mining District (3.66 miles away)
Footnotes
* Mine bounds on map indicate the general area that a mine occupies. For an detailed map, refer to the overseeing BLM field office.
** The mine central point is based on an average of the mine's bounding box(es) and does not necessarily fall on the claim itself.
1 World-class significance is determined by total endowment of the contained commodity. This includes all past production and remaining reserves. Each commodity is considered separately and commodities cannot be combined to arrive at a significant size. The tonnage thresholds are from the mine model grade-tonnage studies. As of June 2008, many entries were classified as significant under less strict rules.
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Notes
FIRST PROSPECTED 1844 BY LEVI BRADLEY WITH PITS; CHESHIRE BARYTES COMPANY DUG ONE SHAFT 1868 TO 1872, CONTINUED BY STAMFORD MANUFACTURING COMPANY FROM 1873 TO 1878. SHAFT DEPTH 300 FEET. GEOLOGIC MAP SHOWS TWO MINE DUMPS. REGIONAL STRIKE OF SANDSTONE ABOUT N. 70 DEG. EAST, REGIONAL DIP ABOUT 20 DEG. SOUTHEAST.