Pine Run Placer

Location: West Nottingham, Goat Hill


Newspaper Clippings

Daily Local News
23rd April 1885


Chester County Chrome to go to England

The Rising Sun Journal says: E. Mortimer Bye, of Wilmington, Delaware, having recently received an order from Liverpool, England, for a quantity of sand chrome, has leased the lands in southern Chester county adjoining the Tyson Mining Company’s tract, owned by Powers & Weightman, of Philadelphia, where large deposits of this ore abound. A force of men is now at work getting it out. They are under charge of Mr. Wilson Drennen, who is thoroughly conversant with this particular branch of mining.


Genth (Mineralogy of Pennsylvania, 1874, page 42) states that at least 1,500 tons of chrome sand had been extracted from this deposit. Its location is shown on Witmer’s 1873 atlas.