Anderson Quarry

Past Producer in Fairfield county in South Carolina, United States with commodities Stone, Dimension, Granite
Sections on this page
  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. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  10. Land status
  11. Ownership information
  12. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. General comments
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10080529
MRDS ID W031793
Record type Site
Current site name Anderson Quarry
Alternate or previous names Winnsboro Granite Corporation Quarry

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -81.23372, 34.37402 (WGS84)
Relative position 5 MILES N33 DEG E OF JENKINSVILLE

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Fairfield(county)

South Carolina(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Rion(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Newberry(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 Fairfield

Comments on the location information

  • QUARRY LOCATED AT QUARRY SYNBOL,N WEST-CENTRAL PORTION OF RION, SC 1:24,000 TOPO MAP
  • Quarry Located At Quarry Synbol,N West-Central Portion of Rion, Sc 1:24,000 Topo Map

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Stone, Dimension Primary
Granite Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • Dimension Stone

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Granite Ore

Analytical data

Result SIO2 69.74% A1203 13.73%, TOTAL FE FE,033.64%,CA01.54%,MG00.22%, NA205.39%, K04.98%

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Monzonite
    Rock unit name Winnsboro Adamellite
    Rock description Winnsboro Adamellite
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Monzonite

Nearby scientific data

(1) Metamorphosed granite and granodiorite

Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • Winnsboro Adamellite

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Non-metallic
Deposit size Large
Significant No
Year of first production 1898

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner The Winnsboro Granite Corp.,
    Home office Rion, S.C. 29132 (803) 635-4945

Comments on the workings information

  • Inactive

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    SLOAN, E., 1908 CATOLOGUE OF MINERAL LOCALITIES OF S.C., SCGS BULL. 2

  • Deposit

    WATSON. T.L., 1910 GRANITES OF THE SOUTHEASTERN ATLANTIC STATES, U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULL. 426

  • Deposit

    WAGENER, H.D., 1967 POTENTIAL SOURCES OF GRANITE FOR MONUMENTAL STONE IN FAIRFIELD COUNTY S.C., GEOL. NOTES V.10 NO. 4 P. 51-56

  • Deposit

    FULLAGAR, P.D., 1971, AGE AND ORIGIN OF PLUTONIC INTRUSIONS IN THE SE APPALACHIANS, GSA BULL. V. 82

  • 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

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit Updated 8/98 By Ahm, Scgs

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-FEB-1982 Maybin, Arthur H. III (Zupan, Alan-Jon W.) South Carolina Geological Survey Field Obs
Updater 01-AUG-1998 Maybin, Arthur H. III South Carolina Geological Survey
Editor 01-DEC-2002 Nicholson, S.W. U.S. Geological Survey Added Continent, Country, And State Fields; Formatted Fields Where Necessary

Beyond USGS

Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.