Brown Mine

Unknown in York county in South Carolina, United States with commodities Gold, Copper
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. 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. General comments
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10106158
MRDS ID W030665
Record type Site
Current site name Brown Mine
Related records 10153648

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -81.35262, 34.95341 (WGS84)
Elevation 183
Relative position 3.64 MILES S55W OF HICKORY GROVE; 800 FEET OFF STATEHIGHWAY 211 ON DIRT ROAD.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

York(county)

South Carolina(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Sharon(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Spartanburg(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Spartanburg(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 York

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Copper Tertiary

Comments on the commodity information

  • Auriferous Pyrite

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Pyrite Ore

Analytical data

Result GRATON (1906)-BROKEN ORE $4 - $7/TON AND SORTED BROKEN ORE ABOUT $12/TON. SLOAN (1908)- "PAY STREAK" AT SMELTER $19 - $27/TON AND 1500 TONS OF ORE AT SMELTER $12 - $25/TON.

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Metavolcanic Rock
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Permian

Nearby scientific data

(1) -81.35262, 34.95341

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form LINEAR
    Strike N45E
    Dip 70NW
    Thickness 0.91M
    Depth to top 0M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1904

Land status

Ownership category Private

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface/Underground
    Length 487.68M
    Overall depth 24.38M
    Overall length 91.44M

Comments on the workings information

  • PRIOR TO 1904, FRED FRANK CONSTRUCTED THREE SHAFTS, THEIR WORKINGS AND A CROSSCUT TUNNEL, TOTALING 1500 FEET. W.E.C. EUSTIS ABOUT 1904-1905 SUNK AN ADDITIONAL 80-FOOT INCLINED SHAFT.

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

    GRATON, L.C., 1906, RECONNAISSANCE OF SOME GOLD AND TIN DEPOSITS OF THE SOUTHERN APPALACHIANS: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY, BULLETIN 293, 134 P.

  • Deposit

    PARDEE, J.T., AND PARK, C.F., JR., 1948, GOLD DEPOSITS OF THE SOUTHERN PIEDMONT: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY, PROFESSIONAL PAPER 213, 156 P.

  • 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 DIP OF VEIN FLATTENS SOMEWHAT AT 30 FEET, THEN STEEPENS AGAIN AT 70-75 FEET. VEIN PARALLEL TO FOLIATION OF COUNTRY ROCK. VEIN CROOKED BUT CONTINUOUS AT SURFACE. AT DEPTH VEIN PINCHES OUT ALONG ONE FOLIATION PLANE BUT CONTINUES ALONG ANOTHER

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-DEC-1980 Gibson, Gregory A. (Zupan, Alan-Jon 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

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