Geiger Pits

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Location: south of Wrightsdale and close to Octoraro Creek

The Geiger Pits are reported to have been operated first in 1844 and to consists of one small pit, one shallow shaft, and a tunnel in the hillside along Octoraro Creek. The tunnel, about 250 feet south of the Cedar Hill stone quarry, in an included shaft 15 feet long that slopes westwards at an ange of 35°. In place at the tunnel’s mouth are several narrow layers of disseminated chromite in a zone of about 16 inches thick.

Some of the Geiger workings for chromite that have been completely obliterated are reportedly beneath the stone piles east of the active quarry near the office. (Pearre and Heyl).