Mine detail: Patapsco Mines

Previously called 'Finksburg MineWildesen MineOrchard Mine'

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Location: Carroll County, Maryland, United States, North America
Lat / long: 39.48922, -76.87717
dep_id: 10145484
mrds_id: W000713
mas_id: 240130005
Commodity type: metallic
Trace mineral: Cobalt, Copper, Iron, Nickel
Operation type: Underground
Development status: Past Producer
other_matl: Actinolite, Bornite, Carrollite, Chalcocite, Chalcopyrite, Chlorite, Epidote, Gahnite, Magnetite, Pyrite, Quartz, Serpentine, Siegenite, Steatite, Talc
Reporter: Sapakoff
Year first produced: 1849
References:
  • Deposit:: CONFIDENTIAL UNPUBLISHED WAR MINERAL REPT FILES, PATAPSCO MI
  • Deposit:: CARROLL CO., MD., MISC REPTS INCLUDING REGIONAL FILE NO 290
  • Deposit:: ESPENSHADE, GILBERT K., REPT. ON MD COPPER MINES AND PROSPEC
  • Deposit:: USGS UNPUBLISHED REPT, AUG 13, 1942 P 5
  • Deposit:: HEYL, ALLEN V., AND PEARRE, NANCY C., MD GEOL. SURV. BULL 28
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