Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1905-11-10
Mistsllansaus 8ading.
MINERALS OF THE PIEDMONT.
They Include All Varieties and Exist
In LARGE Quantities,

They Include All varieties and EXIST
In Large Quantities.
No other state in the south. says a
Washington correspondent, shows up
as we'll in the diversity Of her mineral
resources, according to the Geological
Surveys recent Investigations as South
Carolina. The wealth that is hidden
throughout the state will some day
start!e the world. Her resources are
varied and cover gold, iron manganese,
kaolin, monazite, graphite, phosphate
rock, etc.
There are large deposits Of brown
hemitite and magnetic iron ores, and
at Blacksburg where before and dur
ing the war charcoal furnaces were
successfully operated, unusual activity
Is being shown in mining operations.
No finer deposits of granite exist
anywhere than in the counties Of Fair
field, Spartanburg and Edgefield. In
other sections Of the Piedmont and in
said to be second to none produced.
The Winnsboro and Pacolet quarries
are known the world over for the su-
periority Of their product.
One Of the few tin belts in the world
extends from Gaffney in a northeast
erly direction across into Cleveland
county, n. c., and from there over in
to Virginia. The principal deposits
that have thus far been located are the
Ross mines at Gaffney. and as this Is
one of the few tin mines now known
to exist in this country, its develop
ment is being closely watched.
South Carolina is one Of the few
southern states having no deposits Of
lead or zinc Tennessee is leading the
states of the Appalachian range in the
production of both Of these. Neither
does South Carolina, so far as known,
possess any deposits Of slate, but the
counties Of Anderson, Oconee, Green
Vile. Laurens and Spartanburg are
rich in graphite.
Monazite has been found in large
quantities in Spartanburg and Green
Vile counties, and in the counties ad-
jacent in North Carolina, and for the
last few years this state has been pro-
ducing the larger part Of the worlds
supply.
AS is we'll known. South Carolina
does a large commercial business an
nually In phosphate rock. which
al ounds in all the lower coast sections.
Abbeville, Aiken, Anderson, Cher7-
kee, Edgefield, Laurens and York
counties are all rich In manganese ores
and extensive deposits have recently
been found near Blacksburg. Almost
the same counties with the addition of
Pickens and Spartanburg, have abund-
ant deposits Of soapstone. -
Aiken's kaolin mines are becoming
famous the world over, and there are
rich deposits Of terra Gotta and fire
and brick clays in Richland and Edge
field counties There are also deposits
Of aluminium and corundum through
out the counties Of the Piedmont Sec
ton, but they have not,~a as yet, been
fully developed.
II VIII be seen that the efforts Of
the United States Geological survey to
develop the mineral resources Of the
south have uncovered vast fields Of
wealth in South Carolina, which Will
in the course of few years prove Of
inestimable value to land owners In
different sections of the state. Espec-
tally is this true Of the once rich Dorm
gold veins running through Edgefield
and Laurens counties which are not at
this time being operated.