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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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Rawl-Cotton Branch Road Mine (Unknown)Frick Mine (Unknown)Bowers Mine (Unknown)Twelve Mile Creek (Unknown)Bledsoe (Unknown)Edmund + 1 more nearby (Unknown)Harleys Mill Pond (Unknown)Red Bank Creek (Unknown)Columbia Pit East + 1 more nearby (Producer)Congaree Creek (Unknown)Cayce Silica Plant (Unknown)
Past ProducerProducerProspectOccurrenceStatus unknown
11 paw pins; nearby sites are grouped into one pin. Hover or tap a pin for the site name. 1 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

Red Bank Creek

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 4 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, Titanium, Iron, Thorium. Minerals mentioned: Magnetite. Approx. location 33.917, -81.167. 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?

12
Unknown

Status not recorded.

2
Producer

Was producing when the record was made.

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 5Zircon 5Ilmenite 5Monazite 4Rutile 2

Commodities

Sand 6Zirconium 5Titanium 5Iron 5Thorium 4Silica 3

Sites

SiteCommodityMinerals recordedStatusApprox. location
Twelve Mile CreekZirconium, Titanium, Iron, ThoriumMagnetite, Monazite, Zircon, IlmeniteUnknown33.950, -81.267
Congaree CreekIron, Zirconium, Thorium, TitaniumMagnetite, Monazite, Zircon, IlmeniteUnknown33.750, -81.133
Red Bank CreekZirconium, Titanium, Iron, ThoriumMagnetite, Monazite, Zircon, Rutile, IlmeniteUnknown33.917, -81.167
Congaree RiverZirconium, Thorium, Titanium, IronMagnetite, Monazite, Zircon, Rutile, IlmeniteUnknown33.950, -81.017
Harleys Mill PondIron, Titanium, ZirconiumMagnetite, Zircon, IlmeniteUnknown34.000, -81.167
Columbia Pit EastSilica—Producer33.881, -81.167
Cayce Silica PlantSilica—Unknown33.965, -81.062
Columbia WorksSilica—Producer33.885, -81.175
Frick MineSand—Unknown33.809, -81.439
EdmundSand—Unknown33.855, -81.209
Bowers MineSand—Unknown33.912, -81.415
Rawl-Cotton Branch Road MineSand—Unknown33.911, -81.441
BledsoeSand—Unknown33.935, -81.260
EdmundSand—Unknown33.855, -81.209

Fossil collections

The Paleobiology Database lists 1 fossil collection records in Lexington County. These are research records, not public dig sites.

Nearby counties

Calhoun County · Newberry County · Fairfield County · Richland County · Saluda County

South Carolina mineral guides

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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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