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Cureton Mine

Past Producer in Greenville 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. Host and associated rocks
  7. Nearby scientific data
  8. Ore body information
  9. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  10. Land status
  11. Workings at the site
  12. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. General comments
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10079904
MRDS ID W030663
Record type Site
Current site name Cureton Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -82.22345, 35.05151 (WGS84)
Elevation 268
Relative position 7.8 MILES N01E FROM GREER

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Greenville(county)

South Carolina(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Campobello(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Hendersonville(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Knoxville(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Tyger(hydrologic unit)

Santee(hydrologic accounting unit)

Edisto-Santee(hydrologic subregion)

South Atlantic-Gulf(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States South Carolina Greenville

Comments on the location information

  • 7.8 Miles N01e of Greer Position Measured From Intersection of Sc Hwys 14 and 290 In Greer

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • Pyritiferous Quartz - Gold

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Gneiss
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic

Nearby scientific data

(1) -82.22345, 35.05151
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • Thickness 0.46M

Comments on the geologic information

  • Inner Piedmont
  • INNER PIEDMONT

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1908

Land status

Ownership category Private

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Overall depth 4.27M

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

    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 Updated 10/98 Ahm Scgs

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Updater 01-OCT-1998 Maybin, Arthur H. III South Carolina Geological Survey
Reporter 01-NOV-1980 Gibson, Gregory A. (Zupan, Alan-Jon South Carolina Geological Survey Field Obs
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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