Name of the Mine
Empire State mine.

Location  
Near Gouverneur, New York State, in the US.

Mine Owner/s  
Titan Mining Corporation.

Brief Description  
Empire State mine (ESM) comprises a group of high-grade mines – ESM No 4 mine, which is in production, and six historic mines. The ESM No 1, No 2 and No 3, Hyatt, Pierrepont and Edwards mines are all within a 48 km radius of the mill.

Brief History  
ESM No 4 mine restarted mining operations in January 2018 and began producing zinc concentrate in March 2018.

Primary Metals/Minerals  
Zinc.

Secondary Metals/Minerals  
None.

Geology/Mineralisation  
Mineralisation is hosted within an upper marble rock unit, consisting of metamorphosed and complexly folded (silicified) marbles. The mineralisation is located primarily in hinges of large fold structures.

Reserves  
None stated.

Resources  
The mine hosts measured and indicated resources of 1.71-million tons, grading 11.72% and inferred mineral resources of 6.55-million tons grading 11.11%.

Type of Mine
Underground.

Mining Method  
The mine uses a combination of selective longhole stoping, modified or stepped room-and-pillar and mechanised cut-and-fill mining methods.

Major Infrastructure/Equipment  
The mine is fully developed with shaft access and mobile equipment on site. Existing surface facilities at the mine include a maintenance shop, offices, mine dry, primary crusher, mine ventilation fans, a 12 000 t covered concentrate storage building, a rail siding, a warehouse, and storage buildings.

Underground, a crusher is in place and capable of feeding a surface flotation concentrator with a nameplate capacity of 5 000 t/d.

Prospects  
Titan announced the discovery of the Kilbourne graphite trend, an extensively drill-tested graphite-bearing trend located on the permitted lands hosting ESM.

The company believes that the Kilbourne target has the potential to host between 3.36-million tons and 26.25-million tons of graphitic carbon, contained within 210-million to 1.1-billion tons grading 2% to 4.5% graphitic carbon. 

This is a significant discovery because there are no domestic sources for natural flake graphite in the US.

Contact Details
Titan Mining Corporation
Tel +1 315 535 3200
Email info@titanminingcorp.com

Sources
Mining Weekly. Titan makes graphite discovery at Empire State mine (October 23, 2023).

Titan Mining Corporation. Website: https://titanminingcorp.com/
Titan Mining Corporation. Empire State Mines 2021 NI 43-101 Technical Report (Amended) (February 24, 2021).