McGill Student Chapter Visit to Gouverneur Area
January 1998
Here are some pictures of the McGill SEG visit to the Balmat-Edwards mining district. More details are available in the newsletter.
| Participants at the Gouverneur Talc Company's "XX" Mine. Left to right: Alex Wills, John Kreider (GTC Geologist), Katherine Smuk (VP), Kate Ault, Glenn Poirier, Nicholas Barnes (Treas.), Ian Chartrand, John Carey, Fred Leclerc, Marc Spencer, Dave Mapp. Not in picture Sandy Archibald (Pres.). |
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| Gouverneur Talc operates 2 working open pits which supply much of the US talc and tremolite |  |
| Outcrop showing a tremolite (thick layers) and talc schist |  |
| American Zinc Corp.'s Balmat Mine |  |
| Getting ready to go underground |  |
| The two Katherines beside the famous Balmat "#uck mobile" |  |
| Bedded sphalerite ore lying above dolomitic marble at the Mudpond deposit. (Sph. bed 60cm thick) |  |
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