Mine detail: Barite Hill

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Location

Lat / long:

33.87486, -82.29485

Resource(B)

Primary:	Barium-Barite, Gold
Secondary:	Zinc, Lead, Silver, Copper
Ore:	Pyrite, Gold, Chalcopyrite, Galena, Sphalerite
Gangue:	Barite, Quartz, Chert, Talc, Tremolite, Sericite

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Development status:	Past Producer

Geology

Host rock:	Persimmon Fork Formation
Host type:	Felsic Metamorphic Rock
Structure:	Tight to isoclinal folding
Tectonic:	Piedmont Province
Alteration processes:	Hydrothermal Alteration

References

MRDS	TK00001
DEP	10307219
Reference	{Deposit:: Clark, S.H.B., Bryan, N.L., Greig, D.D., Padgett, J.P., and Watkins, D.R., 1992, Geochemical profiles of six reverse-circulation drill holes from the Barite Hill gold deposit, South Carolina: South Carolina Geology, v. 35, p. 55-66.}{Geology:: Clark, S.H.B., Gray, K.J., and Back, J. M., 1999, Geology of the Barite Hill gold-silver deposit in the Southern Carolina Slate Belt: Economic Geology, v. 94, p. 1329-1346.}
Reporter	Klein, Terry, Woodruff, Laurel G.