Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1857-06-04
eing contact dixie of the granite.

being contact dixie of the granite.
The quartz Of this vein is of remarkably fire
crystalline character. The copper pyratees, pro-
tected from decomposition by the constant water
of little stream, which runs over the crop Of the
vein is found Immediately under the surface.-
A small exploring pit, seven feet in depth, which
was sunk Mt my direction, produced native copper
| The proportional increase in width, per foot in
depth, is at that place, five scvcnths of its width
for, commencing with half n foot Mt the surface
/ it widened to two and n half feet in descent Of
seven feet. Ordinarily, the width at the surface
| is three feet.
This mine has rs yet been unattended to, but
trust it is not too bold to promise thlt it will not
long remain so; for indeed it would be difficult to
discover finer prospects for n copper mine, or a
! location more favored with the eOnvenicnceS Of q
railroad for the transportation Of the ore or pig
metal. do not hesitate to express my convc-
ton, that not only is that day close at hand, when
explorations, carried to proper depth, will fully
devclope the character of this mine, bnt that the
period is scarcely more distant when it will add q
most important item to the expectations of our
| State, and prove the initiative cause Of n more
extended commerce, while, at the same time, the
good example given by well conducted and pro-
fitablc mine, will give new impetus to honest
mining enterprises.
"Bcsides the vein, already mentioned, there are
others at this mine two of which are eighteen
feet in diameter: the one striking n. 300 E., and
| therefore meeting the main copper ven the other
n. 314o E., and consequently crossing the first as
well rs the copper vein. These veins, in all their
characteristics, strictly resemble the veins Mt Mr.
Morgan Dovers, on Wolf creek, in York district.
For the present, il must remain unsettled whether
these veins should bcregarded rs belonging, strict
ly speaking, to the Carolina group, although they
are also auro. .cupriferous At all events, it is
proper to consider them MS distinct subdivision
Of that group, for the same reasons which, when
treating for their character as gold-bearng veins,
induced a seperate classification. Nevertheless
rs these instances quite isolated it is necessa-
ry to avoid too great precipitation and to await
the results of more protracted observation.
Instances Of these veins, We find at the Mary
mine and at the Morgan Dover mine All consist
of saccha, old quartz. They are likewise auri-
ferrous, and, though they contain copper, the ores
of this metal appear scatteripgy, disseminated in
minute particles, and not in the massive manner
in which they are seen at the main copper vein of
the Nary. Possibly the copper found in the su-
gar quartz veins of the latter mine may be errat-
ic and derived only, by subsequent transpostion,
from the chief copper vein. To judge from the
analogy of these veins with other sugar quartz
veins (which, it is true, are aurferous only,
hard country rock their value becomes doubtful.
| Still, it would be wrong to pass final Judgment
upon them without previous careful observation
of their character in depth for which the limited
mining operations of our State do not, as yet, af-
ford an opportunity
There is, on Nanny's mountain, in York, the
gossan outcrnp of bed-like vein, which, from
great similarity Of its constituent iron ore with
that of the established cupriferous veins Of this
ciass elsewhere, has led me to suggest the great
probability of the future discovery of copper at
that place although the experienced vein geogno-
sist will discover m Objectionable feature in the
fact, that the vein outcrop forms the backbone OF
mountain, of some prominence when compared
to the ordinary surface leTcls Qf the adjacent
| lands
'The upper part of this vein was worked for
| iron ores in former times, the furnace which was
supplied by il, being indeed the first erected in
South Carolina. 1t was established by COL Hill and
Wm E. Hayne prior to the revolution and, being
employed in casting balls Mt the time Of the war,
was burnt by the British on their route to Char
| lntte. Rloomeries we're afterwards built here,
but 1t is now already more than forty years since
the company failed owing as we'll to an inferiQrty
of the iron rs bloom iron, occasioned by the same
hardness which rendered it particularly suitable
for certain castings, as the greatly decreased
quantity of timber for fuel in the neighborhood,
and the expense of transportation:
LEAD is said to have been found in q six foot
vein on the land of Jonathan n. Stewart near the
Kings mountain battle field, in vein which a
bvnnds in fbrous black hcmatite. Lead is also
reported to have been discovered by the Dovers on
the Silver mountain near Dclittle creek, in York,
though there is reason to believe that this arose
from mistake, occasioncd by slate bed abound
ing in iron pyritcs, which was observed there
That, however, this portion of York should con-
thin lead is far from improbable, as We have the
Morgan lead mine in Spartanburg, and MS galena
has been found in isolated pieces on the property
of the Swedish Iron Manufacturing Company in
the corner of Union; while discovered this ore
at Briggs gold mine, in North Carolina, close to
the York line