Kirk Mine
Location: West Nottingham, north of West Ridge Road, Nottingham County Park. The exact location of this mine is unclear. A pit about 45 feet deep south of Black Run and about 2½ mile southwest of Nottingham, owned by Edward Kirk, of Oxford, PA., was being unwatered by horsepower in 1918. The ore on the old dumps was both massive and disseminated. (Knopf, 1922) Chromite and other mineral deposits in serpentine rocks of the piedmont upland Maryland, Pennsylvania and Delaware, by N.C. Pearre and A.V. Heyl, Geological Survey Bulletin 1082-K (1960), discussion (abridged) of the Kirk mine is as follows: |