Hagin Mine

Past Producer in Lancaster 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. 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. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10079910
MRDS ID W030672
Record type Site
Current site name Hagin Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -80.85451, 34.94071 (WGS84)
Elevation 168
Relative position 0.95 MILES S41W FROM BELAIR CHURCH

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Lancaster(county)

South Carolina(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Catawba NE(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Lancaster(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Spartanburg(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Lower Catawba(hydrologic unit)

Santee(hydrologic accounting unit)

Edisto-Santee(hydrologic subregion)

South Atlantic-Gulf(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States South Carolina Lancaster

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Copper Tertiary

Host and associated rocks

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

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR
    Thickness 0.91M
    Depth to top 0M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1856

Land status

Ownership category Private

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface
    Overall depth 10M

Comments on the workings information

  • SIX SHALLOW SHAFTS VISIBLE CAVED TO DEPTHS OF ABOUT 2 M

Comments on development

  • PROBABLY WORKED IN THE 1830'S OR 1840'S AND POSSIBLY AGAIN IN THE 1880'S OR 1890'S

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

    LIEBER, O.M., 1856, REPORT ON THE SURVEY OF SOUTH CAROLINA, BEING THE FIRST ANNUAL REPORT: R.W. GIBBES, STATE PRINTER, COLUMBIA, S.C., 135 P.

  • Deposit

    BUTLER, J.R., 1977, FOUR OLD GOLD MINES IN NORTHWESTERN LANCASTER COUNTY, SOUTH CAROLINA: S.C. STATE DEVELOPMENT BOARD, DIV. OF GEOL., GEOLOGIC NOTES, VOL. 20, NO. 4, P. 150-159.

  • 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

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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