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French Creek Mine, Chester County, PA

Mineral locality Documented siteGray area

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Crystals and mineralsCrystals and minerals

Also reported: magnetite, epidote.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Stephanie Clifford from Arlington, VA, USA (CC BY 2.0).

Why this spot

Rockhounding locality: magnetite skarn/replacement deposit with sulfides and quartz

Historic French Creek magnetite mine documented on mindat and in PA collecting literature.View source →

Before you go

Hazards noted for this site.

Flooded pits, dumps

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