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Taxehaw Granite Quarry

Past Producer in Lancaster county in South Carolina, United States with commodities Stone, Dimension, Granite
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  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Materials information
  7. Host and associated rocks
  8. Nearby scientific data
  9. Ore body information
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Land status
  12. Workings at the site
  13. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. General comments
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10080469
MRDS ID W031700
Record type Site
Current site name Taxehaw Granite Quarry
Alternate or previous names Forty-Acre Rock

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -80.5262, 34.66872 (WGS84)
Elevation 168
Relative position 1.5 MILES S21W OF TAXAHAW,SC

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Lancaster(county)

South Carolina(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Taxahaw(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Lancaster(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Spartanburg(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Lynches(hydrologic unit)

Lower Pee Dee(hydrologic accounting unit)

Pee Dee(hydrologic subregion)

South Atlantic-Gulf(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States South Carolina Lancaster

Comments on the location information

  • LOCATION TAKEN FROM INTERSECTION OF COUNTY ROADS 37 AND 123 AT TAXAHAW
  • 1.5 Miles S21w of County Roads 37 and 123 At Taxahaw

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Stone, Dimension Primary
Granite Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • UTILIZED FOR MILLSTONES
  • Dimension Stone

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Granite Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite
    Rock unit name Pageland Granite
    Rock description Pageland Granite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Early Permian
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pennsylvanian
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -80.5262, 34.66872
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • Depth to top 0M

Comments on the geologic information

  • Pageland Granite

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Non-metallic
Deposit size Large
Significant No

Land status

Ownership category Private

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface
    Area 0.044HA
    Overall depth 0.61M
    Overall length 60.96M
    Overall width 7.62M

Comments on the workings information

  • QUARRYING DONE ON AN EXFOLIATION LAYER ON TOP OF LARGE GRANITE FACE.
  • INACTIVE, NOW A HERTITAGE TRUST SITE

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    FULLAGAR, P.D., 1981, SUMMARY OF RB-SR WHOLE ROCK AGES FOR SOUTH CAROLINA: SOUTH CAROLINA GEOLOGY, V. 25, NO1, P 29-32.

  • Deposit

    SLOAN,EARLE, 1908, CATALOGUE OF THE MINERAL LOCALITIES OF SOUTH CAROLINA: S.C. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULL. 2, P224, REPRINTED 1979 BY S.C. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY.

  • Deposit

    Fullagar, P.D., 1981, Summary Of Rb-Sr Whole Rock Rages For South Carolina: South Carolina Geology, V. 25, No. 1, Pp. 29-32Fullagar, P.D., 1981, Summary Of Rb-Sr Whole Rock Rages For South Carolina: South Carolina Geology, V. 25, No. 1, Pp. 29-32

  • Deposit

    Sloan, E., 1908 , Mineral Localities Of South Carolina: South Carolina Geological Survey, Series Iv, Bulletin No. 2Sloan, E., 1908 , Mineral Localities Of South Carolina: South Carolina Geological Survey, Series Iv, Bulletin No. 2

  • Deposit

    Field Obs Scgs

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit Updated 8/98 By Ahm Scgs

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-AUG-1981 Sanders, David P. (Gibson, Gregory A.) South Carolina Geological Survey Field Obs
Updater 01-AUG-1998 Maybin, Arthur H. III 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

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