Wateree River

Unknown in Kershaw county in South Carolina, United States with commodities Titanium, Thorium, Iron
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. Links to other databases
  10. Bibliographic references
  11. General comments
  12. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10068624
MRDS ID W001774
Record type Site
Current site name Wateree River

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -80.6498, 34.23343 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Kershaw(county)

South Carolina(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Lugoff(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Camden(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Spartanburg(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Wateree(hydrologic unit)

Santee(hydrologic accounting unit)

Edisto-Santee(hydrologic subregion)

South Atlantic-Gulf(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States South Carolina Kershaw

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Titanium Critical Primary
Thorium Primary
Iron Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • Heavy Minerals

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Magnetite Ore
Monazite Ore
Ilmenite Ore

Nearby scientific data

(1) Cape Fear/Eutaw Formations

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    1A. WILLIAMS, LLOYD, 1967, HEAVY MINERALS IN SOUTH CAROLINA: SOUTH CAROLINA STATE DEVELOP. BOARD, DIV. GEOLOGY, BULL. 35, 35 P

  • Deposit

    Williams, Lloyd, 1967, Heavy Minerals In South Carolina: South Carolina State Develop. Board, Div. Geology, Bull. 35, 35 P.Williams, Lloyd, 1967, Heavy Minerals In South Carolina: South Carolina State Develop. Board, Div. Geology, Bull. 35, 35 P.

  • Deposit

    Shufflebarger, T. E., Jr., 1958, Titanium Minerals In The Valley Of The Wateree River, Kershaw, Richland, And Sumter Counties: South Carolina Geological Survey, Geologic Notes, V. 2, No. 4, Pp. 23-32.Shufflebarger, T. E., Jr., 1958, Titanium Minerals In The Valley Of The Wateree River, Kershaw, Richland, And Sumter Counties: South Carolina Geological Survey, Geologic Notes, V. 2, No. 4, Pp. 23-32.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit HEAVY MINERAL CONCENTRATE WAS 0.5%, OF WHICH ILMENITE MADE UP 48%. DEPOSIT CONTAINED, PER CU. YD., 12.7 HEAVY MINERALS, 6.1 LB ILMENITE, AND 0.1 LB MONAZITE IN 750,000 CU. YD. OF MATERIAL. ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-DEC-1972 Cooper, Margaret 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

Beyond USGS

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