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

Pennsylvania Geological Survey - Historical Photographs

About

Subject

Metallic Mineral Resources

Description

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

Creator

Foose, Richard Martin, 1915-

Date

1941

Location Covered

Bedford

Type

Image

Original Format

Photographs

Digital Format

image/jpeg

Source

9557

Note

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.

Relation

205

Rights

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Contact

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Contributing Institution

Pennsylvania Geological Survey

Sponsorship

This Digital Object is provided in a collection that is included in POWER Library: Pennsylvania Photos and Documents, which is funded by the Office of Commonwealth Libraries of Pennsylvania/Pennsylvania Department of Education.