DISTRIBUTION OF GOLD MINES IN THE SOUTH APPALACHIAN REGION. '{ t
Some of these were probably minor operations, as Lieber' in his reports, made a few years earlier, complained of the lack of interest taken in the South Carolina gold mines.
CAROLINA BELT.
Chesterfield County. The Brewer mine is the main point of interest in this county. It is fully described on p. 144.
In the same neighborhood are the old Kirkley, Leach and Mclnnis mines. Some gravel mining has been done near the northern boundary of this county.
Lancaster County. The Haile mine is fully described on p. 125. The Lunderburk, 8 miles northeast of the Haile, and of the same character, was worked as late as 1887. The Clyburne property is situated 1\ miles southwest of the Haile. Some tributing is done here with rockers, on saprolite and gulch deposits. Adjoining this on the southwest is the Gay mine, which shows ore-bodies of the Haile type, but is little developed. The most southerly occurrence of gold in this district is at the "Williams mine, 7 miles southwest of the Haile.
York County. There is no active work at present in this county. Among the older mines of this district are the Wilson, WTallace and Palmetto.
Union County. About 3 miles south of Glen Springs are the West and the Thomson mines. Mr. Becker describes the veins as quartz lenses similar to the Dahlonega type, interlaminated with mica- and hornblende-schists. The Thomson mine was operated during the summer of 1895 on a small scale by the Dahlonega method of mining and milling.
Abbeville and Edgefield Counties. Little information could be obtained regarding the mines of this district. The deposits are probably closely connected with, and of the same nature as those in McDuffie, Warren and Columbia counties, Ga. The Dorn mine, situated at the lower end of the Abbeville district, was opened in 1852. In the first year of its operation over $300,000 are said to have been taken from a rich pocket in this mine; a yield of $100 per ton was considered a poor one. The rich pockets were, however, soon exhausted; and the mine was abandoned until 1866, when it was reworked for a short time with some success, as reported.
SOUTH MOUNTAIN BELT.
Spartanburg, Greenville and Pickens Counties. The gold district in these three Piedmont counties is probably a continuation of the
1 For a full discussion of the occurrence of ^old and a description of the older mines in South Carolina, see Tuomey (M.), Report on the Geoloqy of South Carolina, 1848; and Lieber (O. M.), Reports on the Survey of S. C, 1856, 185T, 1858 and 1859.
