| Deposit ID | 10275126 |
|---|---|
| MAS/MILS ID | 0420290034 |
| Record type | Site |
| Current site name | Brookdale Mine |
| Point of reference | Ore Body |
|---|---|
| Geographic coordinates: | -75.51962, 40.10281 (WGS84) |
| Elevation | 55 |
Political divisions (FIPS codes)
Chester(county)
Pennsylvania(state)
United States(country)
North America(continent)
Land(continent)
USGS map quadrangles
Malvern(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)
| Country | State | County |
|---|---|---|
| United States | Pennsylvania | Chester |
| Commodity | Importance |
|---|---|
| Antimony Critical | Tertiary |
| Arsenic Critical | Tertiary |
| Cadmium | Tertiary |
| Cobalt Critical | Tertiary |
| Copper | Tertiary |
| Lead | Tertiary |
| Molybdenum | Tertiary |
| Nickel Critical | Tertiary |
| Silver | Tertiary |
| Zinc Critical | Tertiary |
| Materials | Type of material |
|---|---|
| Anglesite | Unknown |
| Ankerite | Unknown |
| Aragonite | Unknown |
| Azurite | Unknown |
| Barite | Unknown |
| Calamine | Unknown |
| Calcite | Unknown |
| Cerussite | Unknown |
| Chalcocite | Unknown |
| Chalcopyrite | Unknown |
| Cuprite | Unknown |
| Dolomite | Unknown |
| Fluorite | Unknown |
| Galena | Unknown |
| Goethite | Unknown |
| Limonite | Unknown |
| Malachite | Unknown |
| Pyrite | Unknown |
| Pyromorphite | Unknown |
| Quartz | Unknown |
| Sphalerite | Unknown |
| Ore Body (1) | -75.51962, 40.10281 |
|---|
| Strike | N35E | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dip | 70S | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Thickness | 0.5M | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Width | 0.5M | ||||||||||||||||||||
| |||||||||||||||||||||
| Operation type | Underground |
|---|---|
| Development status | Past Producer |
| Commodity type | Metallic |
| Significant | No |
| Discovery year | 1850 |
| Year of first production | 1851 |
| District name | Phoenixville |
|---|
| Type of mineral rights | Fee Ownership |
|---|---|
| Type of mineral rights | Private Lease |
| Ownership category | Private |
|---|
| Type | Operator |
|---|---|
| Owner | New York And Boston Silver Lead Co |
| Year | 1976 |
| Type | Owner |
|---|---|
| Owner | Clothier, W. J. |
| Year | 1976 |
| Agency | Database name | Acronym | Record ID | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| U.S. Bureau of Mines | Minerals Availability System | MAS | 0420290034 |
MILLER, BENJAMIN L, LEAD AND ZINC ORES OF PENNSYLVANIA, PA G
BULL M5, 1924
BASCOM AND STOSE, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL RESOURCES OF THE HONEY
AND PHOENIXVILLE QUADRANGLES, USGS BULL 891, 1938
LAPHAM AND GEYER, MINERAL COLLECTING IN PENNSYLVANIA, PA GEO
BULL G33, 2ND ED, 1965
ICKES, HAROLD L, PICKERING CREEK MINES, BUMINES WAR MINERAL
REGIONAL FILE E-974, JUNE 1944
ROSE, ARTHUR W, ATLAS OF PENNSYLVANIAS MINERAL RESOURCES, PA
PA GEOL SUR BULL M50, 1970
REED, DONALD F, INVESTIGATION OF PICKERING CREEK LEAD-ZINC D
BUMINES RI-4451, MAY 1949
REED, DONALD F, PICKERING CREEK LEAD-ZINC DEPOSITS, BUMINES
PUBLISHED RPT 91.974, CONFIDENTIAL, 1949
GORDON, SAMUEL G, MINERALOGY OF PENNSYLVANIA, SPEC PUB NO 1,
NATL SCI OF PHILADELPHIA, 1922
ROGERS, HENRY D, GEOLOGY OF PENNSYLVANIA, VOL 2, J.B. LIPPIN
AND CO, PHILADELPHIA, 1858
ASHLEY, GEORGE H, SYLLABUS OF PENNSYLVANIA GEOLOGY AND MINER
RESOURCES, PA GEOL SUR BULL G1, 1931
| Subject category | Comment text |
|---|---|
| Deposit | REC 800-816 ARE 1976 ENTRIES REC 010 COMMODITIES FROM 708 PG 2, ALSO PROBABLY NON-RECOVER GOLD, VANADIUM AND TUNGSTEN. LEAD AND SILVER WERE RECOVERED MINE WAS OPERATING, GRADES UNKNOWN, THOUGH ADJOINING WHEATLE GRADED 60% LEAD AND 26-30 OUNCES OF SILVER PER TON (708 PG 1 REC 020 LAST KNOWN OPERATOR (700 PG 22) REC 021 OWNER AS OF 1944 (706 FIG 2) REC 030 LOCATION APPROXIMATED FROM 700 PG 23 AND 706 FIG 1 REC 040 COL 14-16 ROAD .3 KM SOUTH, ELECTRICITY .6 KM EAST A HORSE ROAD, MINE CREEK RUNS PAST PROPERTY REC 040 COL 65 EXTENT OF MINERALIZATION UNKNOWN REC 040 COL 60 PROPERTY, IN WHOLE OR IN PART, REPORTED TO BE UTILIZED BY GOLF COURSE (702 PG 125) REC 050 FROM 702 PG 124. COL 17, GOSSAN, 700 PG 27 REC 060-062 ORE IN VEINS CUTTING THESE FORMATIONS REC 070-074 COMMON MINERALS (700 PG 28) REFERENCES IN PHOENIXVILLE MINES FILE (SEQUENCES 0031-0034) |
| Type | Date | Name | Affiliation | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reporter | 27-FEB-1984 | Unknown | U.S. Bureau of Mines |
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