110 GOLD AND TIN DEPOSITS OF SOUTHERN APPALACHIANS. 
the Haile mine. The Potts,« Izell,a Johnson, b and Haginc mines are situated elsewhere in 
Lancaster County. 
In York County. S. C, the Wylie,^ Kennedy, e Sutton,/ and Palmetto g have been noted 
or described by previous writers. 
The mines in Union County, S. C, which have not been described in the foregoing pages 
are the Bogan h and the Harman i or Mud J mines, both of which are situated in the north- 
western part of the county not far from the Thompson and West mines. 
The Lockhartfc mine, near Limestone Springs (just south of Gaffney), in what is now 
Cherokee County, was worked in the early days of the Southern Appalachian mining 
industry. 
In that part of Gaston County, N. C, with which this report deals the following mines 
have at some time been worked: Crowders Mountain I or Caledonia, Patterson, I Rhodes,™ 
McLean m or Rumfeldt, and Olivers The Long Creek o or Asbury mine, 7 miles northeast 
of Kings Mountain station, is said to contain similar ore to that in the old Kings Mountain 
mine, being characterized by more or less uncommon minerals,? such as tetradymite, 
arsenopyrite, leucopyrite, bismutite, and bismite. 
In the southwestern part of Union County, N. C, the Howie (now Colossus), Wyatt, Wash- 
ington or Bonny Belle,? and Penman mines collectively made up what was known as the 
Grand Union gold mineT Numerous other mines to the north and northeast in Union 
County and to the northwest in Mecklenburg County have been worked, but fall outside 
the area here described. 
SUMMARY. 
The locations of the mines of this area, outlined above, indicate two broad belts along 
which gold has principally been found. These two belts have been generally recognized 
by most writers heretofore. They trend northeastward in a genera] way parallel to the 
strike of I he jocks and the general structure of the region. One belt extends from the west- 
ern part of Union County, S. C, through eastern Cherokee and western York counties, S. C, 
and on through the eastern half of Gaston County and western Mecklenburg County, N. C. 
The other belt is broader and in a measure less defined. It includes Lancaster County, 
eastern York and western Chesterfield counties, S. C, and Union County and the eastern 
edge of Mecklenburg County, N. C. Scattered mines or occurrences of gold are known 
between these two belts. 
To the south of the area which forms the subject of this report these belts become indis- 
tinct, but their continuation is probably represented by a number of gold deposits in Lau- 
rens, Abbeville, and Edgefield counties, S. G, and in McDuffie, Warren, Wilkes, Lincoln, 
and Columbia counties, Ga.s 
To the north these two belts merge into one rather indefinite zone, including Lincoln, 
Catawba, Cabarrus, Stanley, Montgomery, Moore, Randolph, Rowan, Davidson, and uil- 
ford counties, N. C. Taken collectively, this Carolina belt, as it is called, has been one of 
the most important gold regions of the eastern United States. 
a I, ichor, op. (it., vol. 1, p. 50. 
b Lieber, op. cit., vol. 1, p. 69. 
c Lieber, op. cit., vol. 2, pp. 49-50. 
d Lieber, op. cit., vol. 1, p. 45. 
« Lieber, op. cit., vol. 2, p. 63. 
/ Lieber, op. cit., vol. 2, p. 48. 
g Nitze and Wilkens, loc. cit., 
h Tuomey, M., Geology of South Carolina, 1848, p. 92. Lieber, op. cit ., vol. 2, pp. 66-67. 
i Tuomey, M., op. cit., p. 91. 
; Lieber, op. cit., vol. 2, pp. 57-58. 
k Tuomey, M ., op. cit., p. 88. 
I Kerr and II anna, Ores of North Carolina (chap. 2 of Geology of North Carolina, vol. 2), 1893, p. 306. 
Nitze and llanna, Bull. North Carolina Geol. Survey No. 3, 1896, pp. 147-148. 
™ Nitze and Hanna, op. cit., p. 148. 
n Nitze and llanna, op. cit., p. 149. 
o Kerr and Hanna, op. cit., p. 304. Nitze and Hanna, op. cit., p. 149. 
V Becker, G.F., Gold fields of the Southern Appalachians: Sixteenth Ann. Rept . U.S. Geol. Survey, 
pt. 3, 1895, pp. 274-278. See also pp. 62-63 of this report. 
Q Nitze and Hanna, op. cit., p. 104. Becker, G. F., op. cit., p. 310. 
'•Kerr and Hanna, op. cit., p. 261. 
*Cf. Nitze and Wilkens, Bull. North Carolina Geol. Survey No. 10, 1897, p. 84. 
