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Perry Tin Prospect

Unknown in Cherokee county in South Carolina, United States with commodity Tin
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  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Materials information
  7. Host and associated rocks
  8. Nearby scientific data
  9. Ore body information
  10. Controls for ore emplacement
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mining district
  13. Land status
  14. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. General comments
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10078612
MRDS ID W027027
Record type Site
Current site name Perry Tin Prospect

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -81.66043, 35.07981 (WGS84)
Elevation 233
Relative position 1.3 KM NW OF GAFFNEY; PROSPECT LOCATION NOT EXACT

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Cherokee(county)

South Carolina(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Gaffney(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Gastonia(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Charlotte(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper Broad(hydrologic unit)

Santee(hydrologic accounting unit)

Edisto-Santee(hydrologic subregion)

South Atlantic-Gulf(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States South Carolina Cherokee

Comments on the location information

  • NORTHWEST SIDE OF KINGS MOUNTAIN RANGE
  • Northwest Side of Kings Mountain Range
  • Placer In Boiling Springs South Topo Quad At 1:24,000

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Tin Critical Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • SMALL STREAM AREA OF CASSITERITE PLACER, COLLUVIUM AND SPARSE TIN - BEARING SMALL PEGMATITES

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Cassiterite Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Pegmatite
    Rock unit name Carolina Gneiss
    Rock description Carolina Gneiss
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Devonian
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Devonian

Nearby scientific data

(1) -81.66043, 35.07981
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form STREAM AREA AND LINEAR
    Depth to top 0M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Pegmatites In Gneiss Flanked By Stringers Of Granite

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Commodity type Metallic
Significant No
Discovery year 1900

Mining district

District name Kings Mountain District

Land status

Ownership category Private

Comments on the production information

  • INFORMATION LACKING BUT PRODUCTION PROBABLY VERY SMALL

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • PROBABLY SMALL AMOUNT OF LOW-GRADE TIN ORE REMAINS

Comments on the workings information

  • INFORMATION LACKING; PLACER MINING OF ALLUVIUM AND COLLUVIUM, SHAFTS ON DIKES

Comments on development

  • THE NNE TRENDING CAROLINAS TIN - SPODUMENE BELT HAS A LENGTH OF 39.2 KM, MAXIMUM WIDTH OF 2.9 KM, AND CONTAINS AT LEAST 92 TIN OCCURRENCES; THIS IS THE SOUTHERNMOST OF REPORTED TIN DEPOSITS

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    SLOAN, EARLE, 1908, CATALOGUE OF THE MINERAL LOCALITIES OF SOUTH CAROLINA, SOUTH CAROLINA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULL. NO. 2, SERIES IV, P. 85

  • Deposit

    PROSPECT IN GAFFNEY TOPO QUAD AT 1: 24,000

  • Deposit

    1908 COMPILE SLOAN, S. C. STATE, MINE SITE

  • Production

    SLOAN, 1908

  • Deposit

    Keith,A. And Sterret,D.B.,1931.Description Of The Gaffney And Kings Mountain Quadrangles : U.S.G.S.,Geol. Atlas Folio Ser.,No.222 13p..,Mine Text P. 10 , Symbol Locates Site On Map At 1:62,500 , Text 13 P.Keith,A. And Sterret,D.B.,1931.Description Of The Gaffney And Kings Mountain Quadrangles : U.S.G.S.,Geol. Atlas Folio Ser.,No.222 13p..,Mine Text P. 10 , Symbol Locates Site On Map At 1:62,500 , Text 13 P.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit SMALL HEAD WATER STREAM AREA WITH ALLUVIUM COLLUVIUM AND PEGMATITES MINED
Deposit Tin Concentrates

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAR-1977 Whitlow, Jesse W. U.S. Geological Survey
Editor 01-DEC-2002 Nicholson, S.W. U.S. Geological Survey Added Continent, Country, And State Fields; Formatted Fields Where Necessary

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