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| The new entrance to Mine #1 The shaft is 40 feet deep with an adit going off from the bottom northweat for 10 feet that is 6 feet wide and 7 feet high. The adit is well timbered and the shaft was filled with debris dating back to the 19th Century. Photo by John Carter |
We have rediscovered an old mining complex in western Connecticut
that to date comprises two mine shafts with accompanying adits. The first mine consists of a shaft
approximately forty feet deep with an adit going off to the northwest that is
ten feet long, six feet wide and sever feet high. Town records reveal the first mine was a
prospect hole that may have been created in pre-Revolutionary days; the second
mine was just discovered on July 30,
2012 and is yet to be explored. Town records indicate this mine may have an
adit up to 140 feet long.
At the end of May 2012 a blue ribbon committee was convened
at the site consisting of Charles Merguerian of Hofstra University, Nicholas
Bellantoni of Uconn, Stefan Nicholescue of Yale, John Carter of Geotek and two
engineers, none of us could determine what they were mining. The town P&Z Officer finally discovered
some old records that divulged the fact the second mine was dated to 1858. The mineral mined was chalcocite an ore of
copper.
The mines were found within two miles of Cameron’s Line a
major fault system that extends from Staten Island ,
NY Norway
under a series of different names. There
are several important mines located in the proximity of this suture zone
producing gold, silver and copper. The
largest copper mine in the U.S.
before the discovery of copper in the Keweenah Peninsula of Michigan was the
Argo Mine in Vermont that is also
associated with this large fault system.
The property where these mines are located is highly
mineralized containing in addition to chalcocite, malachite, pyrites, quartz,
kyanite, ilmenite, magnetite, cerrussite, beryl and many other minerals yet to
be identified. Although there are no
plans to resume mining operations at these old mines mineral specimens will be
available for sale. For further
information contact John Carter at geotekllc@gmail.com
or 860-469-4804.
Many of the specimens of kyanite, ilmenite and magnetite are
of museum quality and are really spectacular.
Some of these specimens are on display at the Yale
Peabody Museum New Haven , CT.
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