Stone Run Placer
Location: north of Rising Sun, Cecil County
Detrital material covering numerous broad flats along the upper part of Stone Run, Cecil Couty, north of Rising Sun, has been worked intermittently over the years and may have produced considerable quantities of placer chromite. Three localities (the Reynolds, Lincoln, and Stevenson farms) are located and described by Singewald (1928).
The Stephen J. Reynolds farm, three quarters of a mile north of Rising Sun was prospected by Craig Adair and Henry Pyle in 1916 but Singewald (1928) quotes Mr. Pyle: “We could not find any deposit of workable size that gave over 8 or 9 percent chromic oxide in the concentrate.” On the Lincoln farm, About half a mile northeast of the Reynolds placer, and area of 150 feet in diameter appears to have been worked for sand chrome. Singewald reports it was last worked by Joseph Cain about 1908. At the same time, Cain shipped 37 tons of concentrates from the John Stevenson farm, about three quarters of a mile further upstream, but the chromic oxide content was too low to justify further work. Prospecting in 1916 by Adair & Pyle likewise failed to find a deposit of commercial value on the Stevenson farm. (Pearre and Heyl).
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