Newbold Mine

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Location: Little Britain township, Lancaster County

No record of the workings, published or unpublished, has been found, and the name under which the mine was operated is not known.

The largest opening is in the woods on a hillside, at the northeast edge of an open field. It is a partially caved egg-shaped pit 42 feet long and about 25 feet wide. Its depth in 1956 was about 15 feet; however it appears to have been deeper. It is elongate N. 15° W. A large dump covers the hillside east of the mine, and several small piles of disseminated ore remain southwest of the pit. Twenty-three feet N. 75° W. of this opening is a group of four shallow pits aligned N. 80° W. A deep-green transparent tremolite is associated with the chromite.

About 500 feet south and southeast of the Newbold mine are 3 other prospect pits in an eastwards-trending line, 2 of which are fairly large and have disseminated chromite together with some kammerite and williamsite on their dumps. The third pit is a small opening east of these, in dense brush on the edge of the hill, the dumps of which contain a little disseminated chromite. (Pearre and Heyl).