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Check access before you go. Most sites listed here are old mines, quarries or prospects, and many are on private land or active mining claims. Get the landowner's permission, check the rules of the agency that manages any public land, and never enter mine workings. Locations are approximate.

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M & T Chemicals/ Andrews, S.C. (Plant)Olin Quadrangle (Unknown)Santee Quadrangle (Unknown)Georgetown Steel/ Georgetown, S.C. (Unknown)
Past ProducerProducerProspectOccurrenceStatus unknown
4 paw pins, one per site. Hover or tap a pin for the site name. 2 site(s) with USGS coordinates outside the outline are not pinned. County outline: US Census Bureau cartographic boundary file (2023). Locations approximate.

Woof’s favorite find

Santee Quadrangle

We picked it because its USGS record mentions 1 of the minerals on our cards and 1 of our card minerals overall. That ties with 2 other site(s), so we broke the tie by mine status (past producers first), then USGS record quality, then name. USGS lists it as unknown for Zirconium, Iron, Titanium. Minerals mentioned: Magnetite. Approx. location 33.250, -79.416. USGS record.

Ask first: a USGS record doesn’t mean you can visit. Find out who owns the land and get permission before collecting.

Field cards: what kind of sites?

5
Unknown

Status not recorded.

1
Plant

A processing plant site.

Status terms come from USGS MRDS records.

Mineral cards

Counts are sites whose USGS record mentions the mineral or commodity. Hardness from Mindat.

Minerals recorded here

Magnetite 3Zircon 3Ilmenite 3Monazite 2

Commodities

Iron 5Zirconium 4Titanium 4Thorium 2

Sites

SiteCommodityMinerals recordedStatusApprox. location
Waverly Mills QuadrangleIron, Thorium, Zirconium, TitaniumMagnetite, Monazite, Zircon, IlmeniteUnknown33.383, -79.133
Pawleys IslandIron, Zirconium, Thorium, TitaniumMagnetite, Monazite, Zircon, IlmeniteUnknown33.433, -79.100
Santee QuadrangleZirconium, Iron, TitaniumMagnetite, Zircon, IlmeniteUnknown33.250, -79.416
Olin QuadrangleTitanium, Iron—Unknown33.433, -79.466
M & T Chemicals/ Andrews, S.C.Zirconium—Plant33.452, -79.560
Georgetown Steel/ Georgetown, S.C.Iron—Unknown33.373, -79.291

Fossil collections

The Paleobiology Database lists 22 fossil collection records in Georgetown County. These are research records, not public dig sites.

Nearby counties

Florence County · Horry County · Marion County · Williamsburg County · Berkeley County

South Carolina mineral guides

Back to all South Carolina counties.

Related articles

How we built this page: we counted named sites in the USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) for this area, left out sand, gravel, crushed stone, clay pits and unnamed sites, grouped them by Census county, and linked every site to its USGS record. We did not visit these sites, and MRDS does not tell you who owns the land or whether collecting is allowed.

Source: USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS). USGS ceased systematic updates to MRDS around 2011, so status and details may be out of date. Each site links to its USGS record.

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