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Minerals from South Carolina
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To order a mineral give the mineral name and the number of the specimen(s) you wish to purchase.
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Specimen # 1451
Haile Mine, 3 1/2 miles northeast of Kershaw, Lancaster County, South Carolina
10 x 4.5 x 2.5 cm
$ 30
Muscovite on Schist
Specimen # 1451
Another view of glistening muscovite which looks like a thin layer of copper strands on the surface of the native white and gray schist rock.
Muscovite on Schist
Specimen # 1452
Haile Mine, 3 1/2 miles northeast of Kershaw, Lancaster County, South Carolina
Glistening muscovite which looks like a very thin network of scattered copper colored strands on the surface of the native white and gray schist rock.
13 x 8 x 6.5 cm
$ 35
Muscovite on Schist
Specimen # 1452
A closer view of this specimen; the muscovite here is composed of much finer strands that are further apart
Gold ore in matrix
Specimen # 1453
Haile Mine, 3 ½ miles northeast of Kershaw, Lancaster County, South Carolina
Price determined by the amount of sulphides and/or metallic inclusions on the surface of the host rock; I have not had these specimens assayed;
these were obtained from the previous mining and not the current mining operation
5.5 x 3.5 x 2 cm
$ 50
Gold ore in matrix
Specimen # 1453
A closer view of this specimen where it is easy to see pyrites and/or gold scattered everywhere on/in this native quartz-sericite schist rock;
there is not only gold in these rocks, but there is so much pyrite that at one time sulphuric acid was produced here
Gold ore in matrix
Specimen # 1454
Haile Mine, 3 ½ miles northeast of Kershaw, Lancaster County, South Carolina
Massive sulfide deposits embedded in white to cream colored quartz-sericite shists; this is the dominate color of most shists at this location
18.5 x 9.5 x 6 cm
$ 28
Gold ore in matrix
Specimen # 1454
Another view of this specimen. The pyrites and/or gold is mainly concentrated in small sulfide deposits on this rock.
There is usually some gold colored inclusions on some every piece of material.
Gold ore in matrix
Specimen # 1455
Haile Mine, 3 ½ miles northeast of Kershaw, Lancaster County, South Carolina
Massive sulfide deposits embedded in white to cream colored shists
14 x 9 x 5 cm
$ 20
Gold ore in matrix
Specimen # 1455
Click on the specimen to see another close-up view of the pyrite/gold deposits on/in the schist.
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