Dinning Mine

Producer in Harford county in Maryland, United States with commodities Titanium, Metal, Iron, Phosphorus-Phosphates
Sections on this page
  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Materials information
  7. Alteration
  8. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Ore body information
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10068347
MRDS ID W001354
Record type Site
Current site name Dinning Mine
Related records 10266778

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -76.38298, 39.70002 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Harford(county)

Maryland(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Fawn Grove(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

York(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Baltimore(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Lower Susquehanna(hydrologic unit)

Lower Susquehanna(hydrologic accounting unit)

Susquehanna(hydrologic subregion)

Mid Atlantic(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Maryland Harford

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Titanium, Metal Critical Primary
Iron Primary
Phosphorus-Phosphates Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Apatite Ore
Ilmenite Ore
Magnetite Ore
Rutile Ore

Alteration

  • (Local) Ilmenite Leucoxenitized

Analytical data

Result PROBABLY 1% RUTILE, 15% MAGNETITE IN SIGNIFICANT VOLUME.

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Ultramafic Intrusive Rock
    Rock unit name Wissahickon Form-Schist, Graywacke
    Rock description Wissahickon Form-Schist, Graywacke
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic

Nearby scientific data

(1) -76.38298, 39.70002

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form LENS
    Length 2133.6M
    Width 91.44M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Both
Significant No

Reference information

Bibliographic references

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JAN-1973 Force, Eric R. U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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