ProspectingPA
Long-form audio stories about the geology of Pennsylvania and the Northeast. From the Cornwall-type model to the glacial drift, from the Abitibi to the Shawangunk — listen while you drive to the creek, while you're panning, or while you're planning your next trip.
The Cornwall-Type story — Triassic diabase meets Cambro-Ordovician limestone, the IOCG connection, the 67,000 ounces from a mine that was never primarily a gold mine, and the Jones Mine untested target that could change what we know about PA gold. Listen on the drive to the SE PA creeks.
The gold in your pan at Meshoppen Creek, at Tunkhannock, in the Unadilla — it came from Canada. The Laurentide Ice Sheet, the Abitibi Greenstone Belt 300 miles to the north, the six local ice margins from Wells Bridge to Valley Heads, and the open research question a prospector with a microscope could help answer. With image gallery of the ice sheet and Susquehanna basin.
The Schuyler Mine in North Arlington NJ, the Pahaquarry gold-pyrite belt on the Delaware River, and the Shawangunk Conglomerate — a 430-million-year-old Silurian formation with documented gold values at the contact with the underlying Ordovician slate, ignored for 100 years. The most underrated gold target in the Northeast. With full image gallery of the Delaware Water Gap and the Pahaquarry workings.
The pipeline is built and rolling. Future episodes are in the queue. The themes:
Every episode has a companion study guide. Listen-along timestamps, factoid cards, glossary, primary sources, reflective questions, field-trip connections, cross-references. Print-friendly. Designed to be used WHILE you listen.