Gickerville Trap Quarry

Past Producer in Berks county in Pennsylvania, United States with commodities Arsenic, Cobalt
Sections on this page
  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Nearby scientific data
  7. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  8. Mining district
  9. Mineral rights holdings
  10. Land status
  11. Links to other databases
  12. Bibliographic references
  13. General comments
  14. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10226359
MAS/MILS ID 0420110031
Record type Site
Current site name Gickerville Trap Quarry

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Trench
Geographic coordinates: -75.85383, 40.26641 (WGS84)
Elevation 110
Location accuracy 100(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Berks(county)

Pennsylvania(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Birdsboro(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Reading(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Newark(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Schuylkill(hydrologic unit)

Lower Delaware(hydrologic accounting unit)

Delaware-Mid Atlantic Coastal(hydrologic subregion)

Mid Atlantic(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Pennsylvania Berks

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Arsenic Critical Tertiary
Cobalt Critical Tertiary

Nearby scientific data

Trench (1) -75.85383, 40.26641

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Surface
Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Eastern Penn

Mineral rights holdings

Type of mineral rights Fee Ownership

Land status

Ownership category Private

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    ROSE, ARTHUR W, ATLAS OF PENNSYLVANIAS MINERAL RESOURCES- PA

  • Deposit

    PA GEOL SUR BULL M50, 1970

  • Deposit

    GORDON, SAMUEL G, MINERALOGY OF PENNSYLVANIA, SPEC PUB NO 1,

  • Deposit

    OF NATL SCI OF PHILADELPHIA, 1922

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit REC 800-801 ARE 1976 ENTRIES REC 040 COL 65 EXTENT OF MINERALIZATION UNKNOWN

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 27-FEB-84 Schmidt U.S. Bureau of Mines

Beyond USGS

Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.