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 Bulletin No. 63 February 16, 1925, 
 
 COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA 
 
 DEPARTMENT OF INTERNAL AFPPAIRS 
 James F, Woodward, Secretary 
 
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 BUREAU OF TOPOGRAPHIC AND GEOLOGICAL SURVEY 
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 BROWN IRON ORES IN PENNSYLVANIA 
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 Production. From almost 500 000 tons in’ 1889. the annual output 
 of brown ores in Pennsylvania has fallen to 10,000 tons or less. In 
 recent years much of this amount has been the yar ciety known as bog ores, 
 used for gas purification purposes; but some small discontinuous 
 Operations have been conducted at a few other deposits. Also, some 
 brown ore has been obtained as a by-product th quarrying operations 
 and in digging sand and gravel. 
 
 Reasons for decrease. The reasons given by former producers for 
 the decrease in production have been the invasion of the markets by 
 the Lake Superior ores, inability of the local ores to stand the 
 freight charges, increasing labor costs, and similar causes. These 
 are of an external nature. In relatively few cases is the deposit 
 reported exhausted; hence it is a natural conclusion that under favor- 
 able conditions brown-ore mining in Pennsylvania may again become a 
 large industry. 
 
 Future Development. Advances in the art and machinery of mining 
 have been great during the last two decades. Various experiments have 
 been made tending to improve or beneficiate the brown ores, thus giving 
 a higher grade product for Shipment. It has been demonstrated that 
 the ores can be made magnetic by heating in a reducing atmosphere. 
 Subsequent magnetic treatment will raise the iron content from about 
 35 to 58 per cent. In attempts to remove or lower the phosphorus 
 content, the U. S. Bureau of Mines* conducted leaching experiments. 
 
 * Winslow, R. M., "Leaching Iron-Ores for Phosphorus," U. S. Bureau of 
 Mines Reports of Investigations, Serial No. 2266, July, 1921. 
 
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Although not successful, these tests were of great value. Experiments 
 have been conducted in the metal industry, using material containing 
 much more phosphorus than allowcée by standard specifications.* 
 Although the results were remarkably successful and startling, the 
 iron and steel trace is not yet prepared to alter its standards, 
 
 The lake Superior ores are by no means exhausted, but the tonnage 
 which reaches the open market will gradually GCecrease and the compara- 
 tive price will rise. It seems probable, therefore, that in the not 
 far distant future the brown<ore industry in Pemsylvania may regain 
 some of its former greatness, although uses of the ores will be 
 limited to certain definite fields in the iron and steel industries, 
 
 Kees of Deposits. Brown ores occur in rocks of all ages in 
 Pennsylvania. The oldest of these rocks, 600,000,000 years old or 
 more, are exposed in the southeastern corner of the State, Brown-ore 
 Geyvosits {bog ores) are iorming abundantly in the northwestern par 
 Of (Me srace ot ihe present time. Brown ores occur at several: defini t+ 
 horizons between’ these two extremes. The distribution of the larger 
 anc more important ore-bearing strata are indicated on the following 
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Attention is invited to the fact that the location of an iron~ore 
 deposit in strata of any definite eeolovical age does not always 
 Signify that the ore deposit is of the same age as that of the strata 
 which enclose it, Chemical compounds of iron are soluble in water, 
 Water carrying iron compounds in solution may have the iron pre- 
 Cipitated from it. These two statements avoly ecually well to 
 experiments in a chemical laboratory and to processes of nature. 
 
 If iron ores are deposited simultaneously with materials such 
 as clays and sands which afterwards are converted into bedded rock 
 whose age can be determined, such iron-ore Peete are recognized 
 as being of the same age as ‘she sandstones and shales which result 
 from the consolidation ‘of the sands ‘and clays. On the other hand, 
 
 a rock stratum may become fractured, and iron-bearing water solutions 
 passing through the fractures may deposit iron ore in them. Such 
 iron-ore deposits are obviously younger than the stratum which 
 contains the ore, Again, iron-bearing solutions passing through a 
 limestone stratum may simultaneously remove lime anc deposit the 
 iron, A deposit of this type is called a "replacement." Such 
 deposits also, are younger than the strata which the deposits have 
 replaced. For these reasons it is customary to speak of certain 
 iron-ore deposits as being in strata of certain ages without implying 
 that the iron-ore denosits are themselves of that age, 
 
 Brown=ore deposits which have been worked as sources of iron’ore 
 in Pennsylvania occur in. the various rocks of the Proterozoic Era 
 in the Lower Paleozoic limestones, in rocks of Lower Silurian, Lower 
 Devonian and Middle Devonian age, and in the rocks of the Pennsyl- 
 vanian and Lower Permian systems (Coal Measures, particularly the 
 Vanport or "ferriferous" limestone.) Of these the most important are 
 the brown vres of the Lower Paleozoic (Cambrian and Ordovician) 
 limestones, 
 
 Deposits in Proterozoic rocks; In the early days of the iron 
 industry in Pennsylvania a few deposits in the gneisses and schists 
 of the southeastern part of the State were worked, The devosits were 
 small, irregular, and of ‘only fair grade. The occurrences were 
 usualiv widely separated, and for these reasons the industry never 
 attained great magnitude in this area. 
 
 These deposits were due to leaching of iron from rocks rich 
 in that material by cdownward-moving waters, and the devosition of the 
 iron in the places from which the ores were mined. 
 
 Deposits in Lower Paleozoic rocks, The greatest number and 
 most important brown-ore deposits in Pennsylvania lie in the large 
 valleys underlain by the Lower Paleozoic limestones, These extend 
 through the following counties: Montgomery, Chester, Lancaster, York 
 and Adams; Northampton, Lehigh, Berks, Lebanon, Dauphin, Cumberland, * 
 Franklin, and Fulton; ane Bedford, Blair, Huntingdon, Mifflin, Center, 
 Clinton and Lycoming, 
 
 The great limestone deposits (6,000 feet thick) occupying these 
 valleys were designated No. II by the Second Pennsylvania Geological 
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 reports of the Second Pennsylvania Geological Survey further-work in 
 these areas has indicated that other divisions are desirable, and 
 
 has Shown that a classification based on observations in one locality 
 may not be strictly applicable to other localities. As such division 
 and correlation progresses this Survey is in a position to indicate 
 more accurately the relationship of the iron deposits in these areas. 
 
 The brown-ore ceposits of the great limestone areas are the 
 result of precipitation of iron minerals from waters circulating 
 underground. Opportunities for the circulation or passage of under- 
 ground waters occurred along fault planes, in cavernous portions of 
 the limestones, or along the contact+-planes of the limestone with the 
 underlying sandstone (or quartzite) and with the overlying shales, 
 Because they are so very much harder and weather-resisting the 
 quartazites are found in more elevated positions on the various folds 
 than are the overlying limestones, Brown ores found along the 
 junction of the limestone and quartzite contain 4 noticeably greater 
 amount of silica (Si0e) and less lime (CaO) than those found within 
 the limestones. For these reasons the ores with high silica content 
 were called "mountain ores." The others were deSignated "valley ores." 
 
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 lower than the mountain ores, but higher in the stratigraphic column. 
 A more or less well-defined grouping of deposits occurs at about the 
 middle of the limestone series, This is somewhat discontinuous and 
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 shales and slates (Martinsburg shale, No. III, Utica and Hudson River 
 of the Second Pennsylvania Geological Survey) occur other brown-ore 
 deposits, These aiso ave due to the circulation of iron-bearing 
 waters, The Henrietta mines (Blair County) are large developments 
 at this horizon. In this instance, however, favlting may have been 
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 At the time these deposits were extensively worked (20-40 years 
 ago) all mining was done by hand, and haulage was by horse and cart. 
 It was common to mine and wash 5 or 6 tons of sand and clay to get 
 one ton of ore, The activities necessary to recover 200,000 tons of 
 ore ver year from the numerous small mines can hence be easily 
 imagined, <A few mines had large amiual outputs. In 1900 the Scotia 
 mines (Center County) produced 52,893 tons of ore.* 
 
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 Deposits in Lower Devonian vocks. Deposits in rocks of Lower 
 Devonian age are found in the Helderberg or "Lewistown" limestone 
 (No, VI, Second Pennsylvania Survey). As a rule, this horizon is 
 unimportant, Occasionally, however, where conditions for underground 
 circulation were especially favorable, ore bodies of considerable size 
 were formed. The mines northeast of Altoona developed ore bodies of 
 this class, 
 
 In Pennsylvania, ores of the Oriskany (No, VII, Second Pennsyl- 
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 these ores, also, are relatively unimportant, 
 
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 Marcellus ores were of importance in the central part of Pennsyl- 
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 Deposits in the Coal Measures, At many places along the outcrops 
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 deposits, however, are relatively unimportant compared to the ores of 
 the Vanport limestone. This limestone (called "Ferriferous" limestone 
 by the Sccond Pennsylvania Geological Survey) contains or has been 
 replaced by considerable masses of limonite in many places on its 
 outcrop in the central western part of the State. It was formerly of 
 great importance, and many of the early small furnaces derived their 
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1. Jessie Kline's mine, northeast of Emaus, Lehigh County, DD Dp. 27 
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 . sarge open mine at Henrietta, Blair County 7 p. 198 
 
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 GS. Marcellus ore, 5 miles N,E, from Port Littleton, Fulton County, 
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 pVrkees ore Grom! too) of Vanvort ("Perriferous™) limestone at: 
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 10. Vanvort ("Ferriferous™) limestone ore, Mr. Ziegler's mine, 
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