Tyson Reynolds Mine, Fulton Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USAi

Regional Level Types
Tyson Reynolds Mine	Mine
Fulton Township	Township
Lancaster County	County
Pennsylvania	State
USA	Country

The old Reynolds property is about a mile south of Wrightsdale in Lancaster County, Pa. At least two of Tyson's mines were on this property. The Tyson Reynolds mine, in the northern part, is reportedly 200 feet deep. Traces of the old mine still remained in 1955; field evidence, however, gives no indication of the former extent of operations. It is impossible to tell where the old shaft was, but what remains of the old dump is still visible on a hillside, near the ruins of a brick house.

The dump spills over into a forked gulley, in both branches of which disseminated chromite is abundant, fairly well concentrated along broad layers in pale-green serpentine. The chromite is dark bluish gray and is associated with white foliated talc and magnesite. The Tyson Reynolds mine alone among the State Line workings is said to have produced ore known as blue chrome, unusually low in iron. A cleaned concentrate of the disseminated chromite yielded 50.7 percent Cr2O3, and the Cr:Fe ratio was about 2.5:1.