Bradley Place Mine

Unknown in York county in South Carolina, United States with commodity Gold
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
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10106084
MRDS ID W028002
Record type Site
Current site name Bradley Place Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -81.40262, 35.05431 (WGS84)
Elevation 197
Relative position 1.3 KM SLIGHTLY EAST OF DUE NORTH OF SMYRNA; MINE 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

Kings Creek(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Gastonia(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Charlotte(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper Broad(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

  • EAST SIDE OF KINGS MOUNTAIN RANGE; SLOAN LOCATES MINE 0.5 MILE SE OF LONDON STATION WHICH IS NOT LOCATED
  • East Side of Kings Mountain Range; Sloan Locates Mine 0.5 Mile Se of London Station Which Is Not Located

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • THIN AURIFEROUS QUARTZ VEIN
  • Native Gold

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Quartz Ore
Gold Ore

Analytical data

Result ORE FROM SMALL MILL RUN YIELDED $38.00 PER TON GOLD AT $20.00 PER OUNCE

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite
    Rock unit name Roan Gneiss
    Rock description Roan Gneiss
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic

Nearby scientific data

(1) -81.40262, 35.05431

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form LINEAR
    Thickness 0.03M
    Depth to top 0M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Commodity type Metallic
Significant No
Discovery year 1850
Year of first production 1850

Mining district

District name Kings Mountain District

Land status

Ownership category Private

Comments on the production information

  • SINGLE SMALL POCKET OF RICH NATIVE GOLD-BEARING QUARTZ VEIN MINED

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • PROBABLY SOME LOW-GRADE GOLD-BEARING BEDROCK REMAINS

Comments on the workings information

  • SHALLOW SHAFT ONLY

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Analytical Data

    SRC.REF: SLOAN, 1908

  • Deposit

    SLOAN, E., 1908 , MINERAL LOCALITIES OF SOUTH CAROLINA: SOUTH CAROLINA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY, SERIES IV, BULL. NO. 2 , TEXT 503 P., MINE TEXT P. 47

  • Deposit

    MINE IN KINGS CREEK TOPO QUAD AT 1:24,000

  • Deposit

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

  • Production

    SLOAN, 1908

  • 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 LOCAL POCKET OF GOLD ENRICHMENT
Deposit STRINGERS OF ROAN GNEISS WITHIN BESSEMER GRANITE ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAR-1978 D'Agostino, John P. U.S. 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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