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Unidentified Mine

Unknown in Chester county in South Carolina, United States with commodity Sand and Gravel, Construction
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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. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Land status
  12. Workings at the site
  13. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10080462
MRDS ID W031685
Record type Site
Current site name Unidentified Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -81.37262, 34.70872 (WGS84)
Elevation 168
Relative position 1.8 MILES N64W OF BATON ROUGE COMMUNITY

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Chester(county)

South Carolina(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Baton Rouge(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Spartanburg(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Spartanburg(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Lower 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 Chester

Comments on the location information

  • LOCATION TAKEN FROM INTERSECTION OF COUNTY ROADS 25 AND 42
  • 1.8 Miles N64w of Baton Rouge, Baton Rouge 7.5 Quad Taken From Intersection of County Roads 25 and 42

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Sand and Gravel, Construction Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Sand Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite
    Rock unit name Lowrys Granite
    Rock description Lowrys Granite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Early Devonian
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Silurian
    Stratigraphic age (oldest) Ordovician
    Chronological age 399
    Dating method Rb-Sr
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Silurian
    Stratigraphic age (oldest) Ordovician
    Chronological age 399
    Dating method Rb-Sr

Nearby scientific data

(1) -81.37262, 34.70872
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • Depth to top 0M

Comments on the geologic information

  • Lowry'S Granite
  • Rb/Sr 399+Or-4my

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Commodity type Non-metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Land status

Ownership category Private

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface
    Area 0.438HA
    Overall depth 1.22M
    Overall length 76.2M
    Overall width 60.96M

Comments on the workings information

  • OPEN PIT

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    FULLAGAR, P.D., 1981, SUMMARY OF RB-SR WHOLE ROCK AGES FOR SOUTH CAROLINA SOUTH CAROLINA SOUTH CAROLINA GEOLOGICAL SURVE

  • Deposit

    Fullagar, P.D., 1981, Summary Of Rb-Sr Whole Rock Rages For South Carolina: South Carolina Geology, V. 25, No. 1, Pp. 29-32Fullagar, P.D., 1981, Summary Of Rb-Sr Whole Rock Rages For South Carolina: South Carolina Geology, V. 25, No. 1, Pp. 29-32

  • Deposit

    Field Obs Scgs

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUL-1981 Sanders, David P. (Gibson, Gregory A.) South Carolina Geological Survey Field Obs
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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