Thicketty Creek Cassiterite Occurrence

Unknown in Cherokee county in South Carolina, United States with commodity Tin
Sections on this page
  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Materials information
  7. Nearby scientific data
  8. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  9. Land status
  10. Links to other databases
  11. Bibliographic references
  12. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10080570
MRDS ID W031862
Record type Site
Current site name Thicketty Creek Cassiterite Occurrence

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -81.75094, 35.02731 (WGS84)
Elevation 198
Relative position 5 KM ENE OF COWPENS

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Cherokee(county)

South Carolina(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Cowpens(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

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Tin Critical Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Cassiterite Ore

Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • Inner Piedmont

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Land status

Ownership category Private

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    D'AGOSTINO, JOHN P., PERSONAL OBSERVATION

  • Deposit

    D'Agostino, John P., Personal Observation.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAY-1982 D'Agostino, John P. (Rowe, William 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; Changed County To Conform With Location

Beyond USGS

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