Beaver Dam Creek Brook Corundum Prospect

Unknown in York county in South Carolina, United States with commodity Corundum
Sections on this page
  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. Mining district
  12. Land status
  13. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. General comments

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10096520
MRDS ID W027996
Record type Site
Current site name Beaver Dam Creek Brook Corundum Prospect

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -81.08201, 35.09201 (WGS84)
Elevation 201
Relative position 14.0 KM SLIGHTLY SOUTH OF DUE EAST OF CLOVER; PROSPECT LOCATION NOT EXACT

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

York(county)

South Carolina(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Lake Wylie(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Gastonia(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Charlotte(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper 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 York

Comments on the location information

  • ONE KILOMETER NE OF NANNY MOUNTAIN; WESTERN PART OF CHARLOTTE BELT
  • One Kilometer Ne of Nanny Mountain; Western Part of Charlotte Belt

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Corundum Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • ABRASIVE, EMERY WHEELS

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Corundum Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Gneiss

Nearby scientific data

(1) -81.08201, 35.09201

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form LINEAR
    Strike N 29 E
    Dip 45 TO 85 SE
    Thickness 0.75M
    Width 171M
    Depth to top 0M

Comments on the geologic information

  • LAYERED ROCKS TOWARD EAST ARE HORNBLENDIC ROCK PARTLY METAMORPHOSED TO TALC, DIABASE DIKE, DECOMPOSED BIOTITE AND HORNBLENDE SLATES, AND GRAY GNEISS, AND QUARTZ MICA SCHIST, AND GNEISSES
  • LAYERED ROCKS TOWARD EAST ARE HORNBLENDIC ROCK PARTLY METAMORPHOSED TO TALC, DIABASE DIKE, DECOMPOSED BIOTITE AND HORNBLENDE SLATES, AND GRAY GNEISS, AND QUARTZ MICA SCHIST, AND GNEISSES

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Commodity type Non-metallic
Significant No
Discovery year 1900

Mining district

District name Clover Area

Land status

Ownership category Private

Comments on the production information

  • PROSPECT ONLY

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • RESIDUAL CRYSTALS AND MASSES OF FRESH CORUNDUM IN BEDROCK

Comments on the workings information

  • PROSPECT SHAFT ONLY

Comments on development

  • CORUNDUM - BEARING ZONE TRENDS SOUTHWARD TO NORTHERN END OF NANNY MOUNTAIN, APPROACHING CLOSE TO IRON ZONE

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    SLOAN, E., 1908 , MINERAL LOCALITIES OF SOUTH CAROLINA: SOUTH CAROLINA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY, SERIES IV, BULL. NO. 2 , TEXT 503 P., PROSPECT TEXT P. 154

  • Deposit

    PROSPECT IN CLOVER TOPO QUAD AT 1:62,500

  • Deposit

    1908 RECON SLOAN, STATE S.C., MINERAL LOCALITIE

  • Production

    SLOAN, 1908

  • Deposit

    Sloan, E., 1908 , Mineral Localities Of South Carolina: South Carolina Geol. Survey, Series Iv, Bull. No. 2 , Text 503 P., Prospect Text P. 154Sloan, E., 1908 , Mineral Localities Of South Carolina: South Carolina Geol. Survey, Series Iv, Bull. No. 2 , Text 503 P., Prospect Text P. 154

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit CORUNDUM ZONE ADJACENT TO AND PARALLEL TO DIKE; BOTH EXTEND 2 KM SW TO NANNY MOUNTAIN TO CONTACT WITH EXTENSIVE BODY OF LIMONITE AND PYRRHOTITE ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT
Deposit RESIDUAL CONRUNDUM CRYSTALS ON SURFACE; UNDERGROUND WORKINGS BROUGHT UP LUMPS WEIGHING MORE THAN 260 POUNDS

Beyond USGS

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