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Unidentified Granite Quarry

Past Producer in Edgefield county in South Carolina, United States with commodities Stone, Dimension, Granite, Stone, Crushed/Broken
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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 10081962
MRDS ID W044423
Record type Site
Current site name Unidentified Granite Quarry

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -81.88904, 33.76264 (WGS84)
Elevation 168
Relative position 2.6 MILES S 48 DEGREES E OF THE INTERSECTION OF U.S. 23 + U.S. 25

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Edgefield(county)

South Carolina(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Edgefield(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Aiken(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Augusta(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Stevens(hydrologic unit)

Savannah(hydrologic accounting unit)

Ogeechee-Savannah(hydrologic subregion)

South Atlantic-Gulf(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States South Carolina Edgefield

Comments on the location information

  • 2.6 Miles S49eof Us 23 and Us 25, Edgefield 7.5 Quad

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Stone, Dimension Primary
Granite Primary
Stone, Crushed/Broken Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Granite Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Permian
    Chronological age 254
    Dating method Rb-Sr

Nearby scientific data

(1) -81.88904, 33.76264
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • Depth to top 0M

Comments on the geologic information

  • Kiokee Belt, Edgefield Granite

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Land status

Ownership category Private

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface
    Overall depth 3.66M
    Overall length 182.88M
    Overall width 182.88M

Comments on the workings information

  • THE DEPTH OF 12 FEET IS THE DEPTH TO THE WATER; TOTAL DEPTH UNKNOWN.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    FULLAGAR, P.D., 1981, SUMMARY OF RB-SR WHOLE ROCK AGES FOR SOUTH CAROLINA, SOUTH CAROLINA GEOLOGY, V. 25, NO. 1, P 29-32

  • Deposit

    Wagener, H.D., 1977, The Granitic Stone Resources Of South Carolina: South Carolina Geological Survey Mineral Resource Series 5Wagener, H.D., 1977, The Granitic Stone Resources Of South Carolina: South Carolina Geological Survey Mineral Resource Series 5

  • Deposit

    Field Obs Scgs

General comments

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

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Updater 01-AUG-1998 Maybin, Arthur H. III South Carolina Geological Survey
Reporter 01-NOV-1981 Gibson, Gregory A. 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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