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Searl's Mine Or Searles Mine

Past Producer in McCormick county in South Carolina, United States with commodity Gold
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  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Materials information
  7. Alteration
  8. Mineral occurrence model information
  9. Host and associated rocks
  10. Nearby scientific data
  11. Ore body information
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Land status
  14. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. General comments
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10089741
MRDS ID W030694
Record type Site
Current site name Searl's Mine Or Searles Mine
Alternate or previous names Searl's Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -82.31675, 33.86544 (WGS84)
Elevation 134
Relative position 3.45 MILES N71W OF PLUM BRANCH

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

McCormick(county)

South Carolina(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Plum Branch(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Clark Hill Lake(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Athens(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper Savannah(hydrologic unit)

Savannah(hydrologic accounting unit)

Ogeechee-Savannah(hydrologic subregion)

South Atlantic-Gulf(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Sumpter National Forest(National Forest)

National Forest FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

Francis Marion and Sumter National Forests(National Forest)

National Forest FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States South Carolina McCormick

Comments on the location information

  • MEASURED FROM INTERSECTION OF US HWY 221 AND SC HWY 283
  • Measured From Intersection of Us Hwy 221 and Sc Hwy 283, Plum Branch 7.5 Quad

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Quartz Gangue
Pyrophyllite Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Silicification, Sericitization And Pyrophyllite

Mineral occurrence model information

Model code 184
USGS model code 28a
Deposit model name Massive sulfide, kuroko
Mark3 model number 93

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Felsic Volcanic Rock > Dacite
    Rock unit name Lincolnton Metadacite
    Rock description Lincolnton Metadacite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cambrian
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Cambrian
    Chronological age 562
    Dating method Rb-Sr
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic)
    Rock unit name Felsic Pyroclastic Sequence Correlative To The Persimmon Fork Formation
    Rock description Felsic Pyroclastic Sequence Correlative To The Persimmon Fork Formation

Nearby scientific data

(1) -82.31675, 33.86544
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • Strike N75E
    Dip N (STEEP)

Comments on the geologic information

  • Carolina Slate Belt

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1860

Land status

Ownership category Private

Comments on the workings information

  • INACTIVE, DIAMOND DRILLING BY AMSELCO (BP AME

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    MCCAULEY, C.K., AND BUTLER, J.R., 1966, GOLD RESOURCES OF SOUTH CAROLINA: S.C. STATE DEVELOPMENT BOARD, DIV. OF GEOLOGY, BULLETIN 32, 78 P. (REPRINTED 1980, S.C. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY)

  • Deposit

    SLOAN, E., 1908, CATALOGUE OF THE MINERAL LOCALITIES OF SOUTH CAROLINA: S.C. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY, BULLETIN 2, 505 P. (REPRINTED 1958, S.C. STATE DEVELOPMENT BOARD, DIV. OF GEOL., AND 1979, S.C. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY)

  • Deposit

    LIEBER, O.M., 1860, REPORT ON THE SURVEY OF SOUTH CAROLINA BEING THE FOURTH ANNUAL REPORT: R.W. GIBBES, STATE PRINTER, COLUMBIA, S.C., 147 P.

  • Deposit

    CARPENTER, R.H., ODOM, A.L., AND HARTLEY, M.E., III, 1978, GEOCHRONOLOGY OF THE SOUTHERN PORTION OF THE SLATE BELT (ABST.): GEOL. SOC. AM., ABSTR. PROGRAMS, VOL. 10, NO. 4, P. 164

  • Deposit

    Mccauley, C.K., And Butler, J.R., 1966, Gold Resources Of South Carolina: S.C. State Development Board, Div. Of Geology, Bulletin 32, 78 P. (Reprinted 1980, S.C. Geol. Survey)Mccauley, C.K., And Butler, J.R., 1966, Gold Resources Of South Carolina: S.C. State Development Board, Div. Of Geology, Bulletin 32, 78 P. (Reprinted 1980, S.C. Geol. Survey)

  • Deposit

    Sloan, E., 1908 , Mineral Localities Of South Carolina: South Carolina Geol. Survey, Series Iv, Bull. No. 2Sloan, E., 1908 , Mineral Localities Of South Carolina: South Carolina Geol. Survey, Series Iv, Bull. No. 2

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit GOLD DIFFUSED THROUGH A MASS IN WHICH NO DEFINITE VEIN IS DISTINGUISHABLE
Deposit Updated 12/98 By Ahm, Scgs

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-OCT-1980 Gibson, Gregory A. (Zupan, Alan-Jon South Carolina Geological Survey Field Obs
Updater 01-DEC-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

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