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Mine Number 47

Producer in Aiken county in South Carolina, United States with commodity Sand and Gravel, Construction
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  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Nearby scientific data
  7. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  8. Land status
  9. Ownership information
  10. Links to other databases
  11. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10250621
MRDS ID W022331
MAS/MILS ID 0450030011
Record type Site
Current site name Mine Number 47
Alternate or previous names Cyprus Mines Corp., United Sierra, Division
Related records 10100085

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Ore Body
Geographic coordinates: -81.68454, 33.63264 (WGS84)
Elevation 131

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Aiken(county)

South Carolina(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Aiken NW(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Aiken(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Augusta(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

South Fork Edisto(hydrologic unit)

Edisto-South Carolina Coastal(hydrologic accounting unit)

Edisto-Santee(hydrologic subregion)

South Atlantic-Gulf(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States South Carolina Aiken

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Sand and Gravel, Construction Primary

Nearby scientific data

Ore Body (1) -81.68454, 33.63264
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Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Surface
Development status Producer
Commodity type Non-metallic
Significant No

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Unknown
    Owner Cyprus Mines Corp.

Reference information

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 28-MAR-1980 Eastern Field Operations Center (EFOC) U.S. Bureau of Mines

Beyond USGS

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

Operator history (post-MRDS)

MRDS records operators as of each record's last update (≤ 2019). Some of the operators listed here have since changed hands or dissolved:

  • Cyprus Mines Corp. — now part of Subsidiary of Freeport-McMoRan (2007)
    Merged with AMAX into Cyprus Amax (1993); then to Phelps Dodge (1999); then to Freeport-McMoRan (2007).

Curated by qvyshift.com from publicly-reported M&A activity (SEC filings, press releases, USGS Mineral Yearbooks). Not authoritative — verify against primary sources before relying on it. The MSHA panel above is the current authoritative source for actively-permitted mines.

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