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Haile
South Carolina, USA
Main commodities:
Au Ag Mo
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Deposit Description
The Haile gold mine is located in the Carolina Slate Belt, near Kershaw in South Carolina, USA.
Stratabound Au-Ag-Mo mineralisation is hosted by several ellipsoidal pyrite-quartz replacement bodies within a laminated phyllite unit bounded on both sides by a Cambrian volcaniclastic schist and form two ENE trends on the highly strained limbs of an upright synform. Mineralisation is associated with stratabound massive sulphide, but appears to have been introduced during D2 deformation.
Individual ore shoots (as defined by a 0.5 g/t Au cut-off) may be 60 to 200 m long and 30 to 100 m wide, striking ENE and dipping steeply NNW. Shoots are boat shaped where cut at surface. Ore textures include laminated silicified phyllite to silicic mosaic breccias and lensoid silicic augen within highly strained pyrite-sericite schist.
Haile is the second largest gold producer in the eastern US, having yielded 23 tonnes of gold over an episodic 160 year mining history.
For more detail see the reference(s) listed below.
Description based on information available at, or was up to date when written in 1990.
This description is a summary from published sources, the chief of which are listed below.
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Ayuso R S, Wooden J L, Foley N K, Seal R R and Sinha A K 2005 - U-Pb Zircon Ages and Pb Isotope Geochemistry of Gold Deposits in the Carolina Slate Belt of South Carolina: in Econ. Geol. v100 pp 225-252
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Ayuso R S, Wooden J L, Foley N K, Seal R R and Sinha A K 2005 - U-Pb Zircon Ages and Pb Isotope Geochemistry of Gold Deposits in the Carolina Slate Belt of South Carolina: in Econ. Geol. v100 pp 225-252
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Foley N, Ayuso R A, Seal R 2001 - Remnant colloform Pyrite at the Haile Gold deposit, South Carolina: a textural key to genesis: in Econ. Geol. v96 pp 891-902
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Hayward N 1992 - Controls on syntectonic replacement mineralization in parasitic antiforms, Haile Gold mine, Carolina Slate Belt: in Econ. Geol. v87 pp 91-112
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