Latitude: 43°54'N
Longitude: 73°28'W
Located 3 miles West of Ticonderoga. Started before 1842. Mineralization is a vein in gneiss and a contact of limestone and pegmatitic granite. Workings featured numerous pits, including: "Woodchuck" workings (3 irregular shafts); "Young Lion" pit (large underground chamber); "Old Lion" tunnel; "Higher" workings; "Fryatt" workings; "6th. set of workings" & the "Old Indian" workings (now lost).
References
Nason, Frank (1888). Pyroxenes from the Mineral Locality at Chilson Hill, Ticonderoga, N.Y. (Bulletin of the New York State Museum Bulletin, No.4.)
Alling, Harold L. (1917). The Adirondack Graphite Deposits. New York State Museum Bulletin No. 199, Fig. 1, 8, 23-31.
Economic Geology 5: 147-148.
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