| Deposit ID | 10307219 |
|---|---|
| MRDS ID | TK00001 |
| Record type | Site |
| Current site name | Barite Hill |
| Geographic coordinates: | -82.29485, 33.87486 (WGS84) |
|---|---|
| Location accuracy | 10000(meters) |
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)
| Country | State | County |
|---|---|---|
| United States | South Carolina | McCormick |
| Commodity | Importance |
|---|---|
| Gold | Primary |
| Barium-Barite Critical | Primary |
| Copper | Secondary |
| Zinc Critical | Secondary |
| Lead | Secondary |
| Silver | Secondary |
| Materials | Type of material |
|---|---|
| Pyrite | Ore |
| Gold | Ore |
| Chalcopyrite | Ore |
| Galena | Ore |
| Sphalerite | Ore |
| Barite | Gangue |
| Quartz | Gangue |
| Chert | Gangue |
| Talc | Gangue |
| Tremolite | Gangue |
| Sericite | Gangue |
| Host or associated | Host | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Rock type | Metamorphic Rock > Metavolcanic Rock > Felsic Metamorphic Rock | ||
| Rock unit name | Persimmon Fork Formation | ||
| Rock description | Persimmon Fork Formation | ||
| |||
| (1) | -82.29485, 33.87486 |
|---|
| Type of structure | Local |
|---|---|
| Structure description | Tight to isoclinal folding |
| Development status | Past Producer |
|---|---|
| Commodity type | Both |
| Significant | Yes |
| District name | Lincolnton-Mccormick District |
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| Year | 1994 |
|---|---|
| Period | 1990-1994 |
| Material | silver |
| Ore mined | 3390280g |
| Year | 1994 | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Period | 1990-1994 | ||||||||||||||
| Material | gold | ||||||||||||||
| Ore mined | 1835000g | ||||||||||||||
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| Subject category | Comment text |
|---|---|
| Deposit | The Main Pit at Barite Hill contains four parallel zones of gold-silver mineralization: footwall, middle, hanging wall, and Red Hill ore zones. The Rainsford Pit contains only one gold-silver -rich zone, which is the stratigraphic equivalent of the footwall ore zone in the Main Pit. Gold-silver-rich zones in the Main Pit are partly coincident with lenses of siliceous barite rock, but not confined to them, and occur more commonly in pyrite-quartz altered fragmental rock. The stratigraphically uppermost of the four ore zones in the Main Pit is overlain by a zone of barite and base-metal enrichment, which is, in turn, overlain by a talc-tremolite alteration zone. Siliceous barite zones are absent in the Rainsford Pit and gold-silver minerals are associated with silicified rock and chert (Clark and others, 1999). |
| Deposit | The ore strike in N 60 E, and the ore dip is 75 NW. The two pits (Main Pit and Rainsford Pit) are separated by 500 m. The overal length of the surface working is 1000 m. |
| Type | Date | Name | Affiliation | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reporter | 01-JAN-83 | Klein, Terry | U.S. Geological Survey | |
| Editor | 17-DEC-03 | Woodruff, Laurel G. | U.S. Geological Survey | Work done in Filemaker |
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