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Penn Haven Jct

Occurrence in Carbon county in Pennsylvania, United States with commodities Uranium, Lead, Copper
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  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Nearby scientific data
  7. Ore body information
  8. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  9. Links to other databases
  10. Bibliographic references
  11. General comments
  12. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10084774
MRDS ID W102221
Record type Site
Current site name Penn Haven Jct

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -75.74879, 40.94167 (WGS84)
Location accuracy 1000(meters)
Relative position 2000 FT SOUTH OF PENN HAVEN JCT ON THE LEHIGH RIVER, Est, From Literature

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Carbon(county)

Pennsylvania(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Christmans(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Allentown(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Newark(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Lehigh(hydrologic unit)

Upper Delaware(hydrologic accounting unit)

Delaware-Mid Atlantic Coastal(hydrologic subregion)

Mid Atlantic(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Pennsylvania Carbon

Comments on the location information

  • 5 MILES N OF JIM THORPE

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Uranium Primary
Lead Primary
Copper Primary

Nearby scientific data

(1) -75.74879, 40.94167
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form 300 FT EXPOSED IN SMALL ANTICLINE, ITS CONFORMABLE WITH BEDDING. ROLL STRUCTURE SIMILAR TO COLORADO PLATEAU

Comments on the geologic information

  • CATSKILL FORMATION

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No
Discoverer A Few Shallow Holes Were Put Down In 1950

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    KLEMIC, H., AND OTHERS, 1963, GEOLOGY AND URANIUM OCCURRENCES OF THE NORTHERN HALF OF THE LEHIGHTON, PA., QUAD AND ADJOINING AREAS, US GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 1138, 97 PP.

  • Deposit

    LAPHAM, D.M., AND GEYER, A.R., 1965, MINERAL COLLECTING IN PENNSYLVANIA, 2ND ED., 4TH PA. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY, BULLETIN G-33, 148 PP.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit CLAUSTHALITE (PBSE) AND SMALL AMOUNTS OF PYRITE ARE WITH URANINITE. SECONDARY MINERALS ARE KASOLITE AND URANOPHANE.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAR-86 Cannon, Susan U.S. Geological Survey

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

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