The Segal Talc Mineral Properties are located near DeKalb/Gouverneur, in St. Lawrence county, New York, USA, and located approximately 418km north of New York City.
The talc properties have been under the control and ownership of several families since the 1920s, and the talc deposits were first discovered on the properties in 1940.
Most recently, CMC Inc., of Scottsdale, Arizona, has been active in evaluating the talc properties for possible development.
Geology & mineralogy
The Adirondack region constitutes a small part of a much larger, well-known geological feature, known as the Grenville Province, which extends from northeastern Canada into Mexico.
The Grenville Province is a broad band of (mostly) metamorphic rocks, believed to be from the Middle Proterozoic Eon (approximately 1.0 to 1.5bn years ago).
In the state of New York, most of the Grenville Province is overlain by younger sedimentary rocks. However, most of the Adirondack region was...