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Cook Prospect

Unknown in Abbeville 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. Materials information
  7. Alteration
  8. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Land status
  12. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. General comments
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10096546
MRDS ID W030661
Record type Site
Current site name Cook Prospect

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -82.69987, 34.17953 (WGS84)
Elevation 152
Relative position 3.67 MILES S51W OF LOWNDESVILLE

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Abbeville(county)

South Carolina(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Lowndesville(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Abbeville(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Greenville(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper Savannah(hydrologic unit)

Savannah(hydrologic accounting unit)

Ogeechee-Savannah(hydrologic subregion)

South Atlantic-Gulf(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States South Carolina Abbeville

Comments on the location information

  • SLOAN'S (1908) LOCATION INACCURATE
  • 3.7 Miles S51w of Lowndesville, Lowndesville 7.5 Quad: Sloan'S (1908) Location Inaccurate

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • Auriferous Pyrite

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Pyrite Ore

Alteration

  • (Local) Silicification

Host and associated rocks

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

Nearby scientific data

(1) -82.69987, 34.17953
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Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • LOWNDESVILLE BELT

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1908

Land status

Ownership category Private

Comments on the workings information

  • PROPERTY PITTED IN A DESULTORY MANNER

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 PYRITIC QUARTZ IS IRREGULARLY DISTRIBUTED IN LENTICLES IN SERICITE SCHIST

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
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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