Commodities
PrimaryCopper, Platinum, Palladium, Nickel, Thorium, Gold, Tellurium
Commodity typeM
Deposit
Deposit sizeN
Orebody formUNKNOWN BUT PROBABLY DISSEMINATED
Ore controlMagmatic Segregation
Geology
Host rockDiabase
Tectonic settingMesozoic Basins - Gettysburg Basin
Economic & production
Development statusOccurrence
Identification
Deposit ID10048643
MRDS IDMP00247
RegionNA
Data scoreC
Coordinates40.19724, -76.86522
References
GOTTFRIED, DAVID, FROELICH, A.J., RAIT, NORMA, AND ARUSCAVAGE, P.J., 1990, FRACTIONATION OF PALLADIUM AND PLATINUM IN A MESOZOIC DIABASE SHEET, GETTYSBURG BASIN, PENNSYLVANIA: IMPLICATIONS FOR MINERAL EXPLORATION: JOURNAL OF GEOCHEMICAL EXPLORATION, V. 37, P. 75-89.GOTTFRIED, DAVID, FROELICH, A.J., ARUSCAVAGE, P.J., AND RAIT, NORMA, 1989, ANOMALOUS PALLADIUM-PLATINUM OCCURRENCES IN MESOZOIC QUARTZ-NORMATIVE THOLEIITIC SUITES IN THE EASTERN UNITED STATES, IN SCHINDLER, K.S., ED., USGS RESEARCH ON MINERAL RESOURCES - 1989, PROGRAM AND ABSTRACTS: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY CIRCULAR 1935, P. 23-25.GOTTFRIED, DAVID, AND FROELICH, A.J., 1988, VARIATIONS OF PALLADIUM AND PLATINUM CONTENTS AND RATIOS IN SELECTED EARLY MESOZOIC THOLEIITIC ROCK ASSOCIATIONS IN THE EASTERN UNITED STATES, IN, FROELICH, A.J., AND ROBINSON, G.R., JR., EDS., STUDIES OF THE EARLY MESOZOIC BASINS OF THE EASTERN UNITED STATES: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 1776, P. 332-341.