Commodities
TertiaryAntimony, Arsenic, Cobalt, Copper, Molybdenum, Nickel, Cadmium, Zinc, Lead
Commodity typeM
Materials
Other materialsAnglesite, Ankerite, Aragonite, Azurite, Barite, Calamine, Calcite, Cerussite, Chalcocite, Chalcopyrite, Cuprite, Dolomite, Fluorite, Galena, Goethite, Limonite, Malachite, Pyrite, Pyromorphite, Quartz, Sphalerite
Economic & production
Development statusPast Producer
First production1851
Discovery year1850
Identification
Deposit ID10177995
RegionNA
Data scoreB
Coordinates40.10641, -75.52072
References
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