Looking north at ore face, the bedding vein of good ore being outlined in between the Mauch Chunk red shale

Looking north at ore face, the bedding vein of good ore being outlined in between the Mauch Chunk red shale

Metallic Mineral Resources

Looking north at ore face, the bedding vein of good ore being outlined in between the Mauch Chunk red shale

Foose, Richard Martin, 1915-

1941

Bedford

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The thickness of the good ore increases one foot (at the hammer) to three feet or more (at the pick). There are large pieces of unreplaced red shale in the ore.

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