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Ecton Mine, Perkiomen Mines, Audubon, Lower Providence Township, Montgomery Co., Pennsylvania, USA
A lead (zinc) mine about 1/2 mile S of the Perkiomen Copper Mine. Both mines work the same vein which was lead-zinc rich at the south end (Ecton Mine) and copper rich at the north end (Perkiomen Mine). The Wetherill mine was situated 1/2 mile to the S and apparently worked a separate vein.
Ore is hosted in a fracture cutting the red shales and arkoses of the Upper Triassic Stockton Formation. The fracture is located on the projection of the fault that bounds the south margin of Mine Ridge beneath the sediments of the Newark Basin. The vein hosting fracture(s) may represent reactivation of this Paleozoic age fault in the basement beneath the district.
Begun in the new or second round of mining efforts in the Audubon (Shannonville) region in 1847, with Charles M. Wheatley hired in as manager of the mine (1849-1851). In March of 1851, evidence of a loss of profitabiliy initiated the consolidated of the Ecton and Perkiomen mines including Whim Shaft under the new enterprise called The Perkiomen Consolidated Mining Company, but by 1853 the mining efforts began to fail and the mines finally closed by 1855.
The Ecton mine is located in the center of the Perikomen/Audubon mining region, but has been given separate listing due to the greater efforts conducted at this specific mine on research/recovery of the mineralogy of the region. The Ecton mine, including the Whim shaft, provided a much extended period of availability for mineralogical specimens/materials for research. Some upper level workings, an adit, drift and stope, were still accessible and so too were materials from the mines dumps, late into the 20th century.
Mineral List
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References
Smith, II R. C. (1977) Zinc and Lead occurrences in Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Geological Survey, 4th series, Mineral Resources Report, 72: 247 - 262.
Rocks & Minerals (1946): 21: 17, 140.
Rocks & Minerals (1949): 24: 492-495.
Palache, C., Berman, H., & Frondel, C. (1951), The System of Mineralogy of James Dwight Dana and Edward Salisbury Dana, Yale University 1837-1892, Volume II. John Wiley and Sons, Inc., New York, 7th edition, revised and enlarged, 1124 pp.: 591, 893.
Barnes, John H. (1973), "Three New Minerals for Pennsylvania," Pennsylvania Geology: 4(4): 30-31.
Grant, Raymond W. (1974), "Pennsylvania Mineral Species as of August, 1974," in Pennsylvania Minerals (PM) (September): 141.
Smith, Robert C., II (1974), "Interesting Minerals from Pennsylvania Zinc-Lead Occurrences," Pennsylvania Geology: 5(3): 9.
Mineral collecting in Pennsylvania (19__): 186-188.
Geyer, Smith, Barnes (1976), C. M. Wheatley: the Pennsylvania Years, Part 1, The Ecton-Perkiomen Mine, MATRIX: 11(2): 65-86.
Reed, Juliet C. (1976), Annotated Bibliography of Minerals New to the Pennsylvania List 1965-1974, The Mineralogical Society of Pennsylvania, Inc.: 52, 64-65.
Smith, II, R. C. (1978) Pseudomalachite chapter in: The Mineralogy of Pennsylvania, 1966 - 1975, Special Publication No. 1, Friends of Mineralogy, p. 197 - 200.
Smith, II, R. C. (1978) Langite and Posnjakite chapter in: The Mineralogy of Pennsylvania, 1966-1975, Special Publication No. 1, Friends of Mineralogy, p. 156-163. [Includes a table with the X-ray powder diffraction data for samples from this locality.]
Encyclopedia of Minerals, 2nd. Ed.: 834.
Evans, F. Harold (1980) Historical Sketches of Copper and Lead Mining in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, Special Publication No. 2, Friends of Mineralogy, Pennsylvania Chapter, Inc. 36 p.
Rocks & Minerals (1946): 21: 17, 140.
Rocks & Minerals (1949): 24: 492-495.
Palache, C., Berman, H., & Frondel, C. (1951), The System of Mineralogy of James Dwight Dana and Edward Salisbury Dana, Yale University 1837-1892, Volume II. John Wiley and Sons, Inc., New York, 7th edition, revised and enlarged, 1124 pp.: 591, 893.
Barnes, John H. (1973), "Three New Minerals for Pennsylvania," Pennsylvania Geology: 4(4): 30-31.
Grant, Raymond W. (1974), "Pennsylvania Mineral Species as of August, 1974," in Pennsylvania Minerals (PM) (September): 141.
Smith, Robert C., II (1974), "Interesting Minerals from Pennsylvania Zinc-Lead Occurrences," Pennsylvania Geology: 5(3): 9.
Mineral collecting in Pennsylvania (19__): 186-188.
Geyer, Smith, Barnes (1976), C. M. Wheatley: the Pennsylvania Years, Part 1, The Ecton-Perkiomen Mine, MATRIX: 11(2): 65-86.
Reed, Juliet C. (1976), Annotated Bibliography of Minerals New to the Pennsylvania List 1965-1974, The Mineralogical Society of Pennsylvania, Inc.: 52, 64-65.
Smith, II, R. C. (1978) Pseudomalachite chapter in: The Mineralogy of Pennsylvania, 1966 - 1975, Special Publication No. 1, Friends of Mineralogy, p. 197 - 200.
Smith, II, R. C. (1978) Langite and Posnjakite chapter in: The Mineralogy of Pennsylvania, 1966-1975, Special Publication No. 1, Friends of Mineralogy, p. 156-163. [Includes a table with the X-ray powder diffraction data for samples from this locality.]
Encyclopedia of Minerals, 2nd. Ed.: 834.
Evans, F. Harold (1980) Historical Sketches of Copper and Lead Mining in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, Special Publication No. 2, Friends of Mineralogy, Pennsylvania Chapter, Inc. 36 p.
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