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80 cents was- the best that could be obtained. A little placer work was done in the small 
creek just to the west, but is said not to have been profitable. 
Farther to the southwest, about a mile from the Mitchell place, a vein striking N. 30° E. 
with steep dip to the northwest has been opened on the Parker property. Three short 
tunnels which appear to cut this vein show that it is very irregular in width, ranging from 
4 feet down to 2 inches. The northeasternmost opening exposes a lens-like mass of quartz, 
10 to 12 feet long, inclosed in decomposed schist, probably amphibolite. Farther south- 
west a 35-foot shaft and drift explore more of the vein. The quartz contains oxidized 
sulphides, which are said to carry fair gold values, although smelter returns from a small 
shipment were low. 
A small, mound-like elevation known as Mose Mountain, just to the northeast of the 
Brown mine, is cut by many veins of "hungry" or barren-looking quartz, which, however, 
have received considerable attention from prospectors because of the story, presumably 
as ill founded as such tales usually are, that some very rich ore was once found there by 
an old miner, who died without disclosing the exact location of his find. 
The Bolin mine, so called, is about 1 mile south of the old Darwin prospect. Several 
pits were sunk years ago on a quartz vein of northeasterly strike. Nothing further is 
known concerning this property. 
On the Terry place, which adjoins the McCaw property on the northeast, a 30-foot 
pit on a vein of quartz afforded opportunity to fake out a small amount of ore, which 
was shipped. The value of the ore was not learned. This work was done only a few 
years ago. 
A little prospecting has been done on the Love property, about 2\ miles northeast of 
Yorkville, not far from the Wallis place. A 2-foot quartz vein striking to the northeast 
is irregular in form and includes horses of the schist wall rock. A streak about 4 inches 
wide in the middle of the vein, carrying decomposed pyrite, is said to assay as high as 
$50, while the remainder of the vein is lean. It is stated that some copper is present, 
but no indications of that metal were seen by the writer. 
About ?>\ miles southwest of Gaffney, on the Nott property, not far from the old Cameron 
lead mine, a couple of men were at work at the time of the writer's visit sinking a prospect 
shaft near the site of an old. placer, which corresponds in description to the Austin placer 
of Lieber, a- and which is said to have yielded $50,000 to $75,000. This shaft, which had 
attained a depth of about 20 feet, exposed only a 3-inch seam of quartz, with some decom- 
posed pyrite. Work was stopped here in the early autumn of 1904. 
Old abandoned mines. — For the sake of completeness the names of a number of old mines 
once more or less important, many of which have long since been forgotten, are given here. 
These names are taken from the early literature on the geology of this region and are 
arranged according to geographic position. In most cases more or less complete descrip- 
tions of these mines will be found in the references cited. 
In Chesterfield County, S. C, the Leach & mine is near the Brewer mine, and was said to 
resemble that mine in the character of its ore deposit. The Kirkleyc and Mclnnis c mines 
are also near the Brewer. Other old mines in the western portions of Chesterfield County 
are the Miller/? Huff ,d and Hendrix. e 
In Lancaster County, S. C, the Funderburk/ and the G&jg or Little Brewer are near the 
Haile mine and are said to resemble it in character. The Ingram, # Clyburn, i Williams, i 
Belk, ;' Massey,£ Stevens and Belk,^" Phifiei',^ and Knight* mines are also in the vicinity of 
a Op. cit., vol. 2, p. 71. 
b Lieber, op. cit., vol. 1, pp. 56, 68-69; vol. 2, p. 53. Nitze and Wilkens, Bull. North Carolina Geol. Sur- 
vey No. 10, 1897, p. 77. 
c Lieber, op. cit., vol. 2, p. 53. Nitze and Wilkens, loc. cit. 
d Tuomey, M., Geology cf South Carolina, 1848, p. 98. 
e Lieber, op. cit., vol. 1, p. 69. 
/Lieber, op. cit., vol. 1, pp. 59-60. Nitze and Wilkens, op. cit., p. 77. 
g Lieber, op. cit., vol. 1, pp. 57, 62. Nitze and Wilkens, loc. cit. 
h Lieber, op. cit., vol. 1, pp. 57, 63. 
i Nitze and Wilkens, loc. cit. 
; Lieber, op. cit., vol. 1, p. 55. Tuomey, M., Geology of South Carolina, 1848, p. 98. 
k Lieber, op. cit., vol. 1, p. 55. 
