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Locality Name:
Hale's Mine (Haile Gold Mine), Kershaw, Lancaster Co., South Carolina, USA

Oldest recorded age at locality: 590.2
Youngest recorded age at locality: 544.8

mindat Locality ID: 11715
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-11715.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Hale's Mine (Haile Gold Mine), Kershaw, Lancaster Co., South Carolina, USA": 0
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 0

Latitude: 34°34'36"N
Longitude: 80°32'28"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 34.576666666667,-80.541111111111

A	This mineral is Anthropogenic.
G	This mineral is directly dated.
B	This mineral is reported as having this age.
Y	This mineral is using an age reported as an element mineralization period.
O	This mineral is using an age calculated from all data at the locality.
R	The age displayed for this mineral originates from a different, non-child locality.
P	The age displayed for this mineral is the range of ages for this mineral at all of this locality's children.
	This mineral's age has not yet been recorded.

Arsenopyrite	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Clay	Clinozoisite	Copper	Corundum	Epidote	Kaolinite	Marcasite
Mica	Molybdenite	Nickeline	None	Not in a structural group	Pyrite	Quartz	Rocksalt	Rutile	Sphalerite
Talc	Topaz

Ankerite ()*	Arsenopyrite ()*	Calcite ()*	Cassiterite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*
Epidote ()*	Galena ()*	Gold ()*	Hematite ()*	Ilmenite ()*
Kaolinite ()*	Kyanite ()*	Marcasite ()*	Margarite ()*	Molybdenite ()*
Muscovite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Pyrrhotite ()*	Quartz ()*	Rutile ()*
Sphalerite ()*	Talc ()*	Topaz ()*

This Mineral list contains entries from this locality, including sub-localities. Minerals in bold are reported by mindat.org as occurring directly at this locality, and do not occur at any children (sublocalities) of this locality.

Elements at this locality, including sub-localities: Al As Au C Ca Cu F Fe H K Mg Mo O Pb S Si Sn Ti Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Al As Au C Ca Cu F Fe H K Mg Mo O Pb S Si Sn Ti Zn

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Arsenopyrite Calcite Chalcopyrite Clay Clinozoisite Copper Corundum Epidote Kaolinite Marcasite
Mica Molybdenite Nickeline None Not in a structural group Pyrite Quartz Rocksalt Rutile Sphalerite
Talc Topaz

23 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	Max Age (Ma)	Min Age (Ma)	# of localities containing mineral
Ankerite ()*	None	Ca(Fe²⁺,Mg)(CO₃)₂	590.2	544.8	3092
Arsenopyrite ()*	Arsenopyrite	FeAsS	590.2	544.8	9052
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	590.2	544.8	27770
Cassiterite ()*	Rutile	SnO₂	590.2	544.8	5171
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	590.2	544.8	27198
Epidote ()*	Epidote Clinozoisite	Ca₂(Al₂Fe³⁺)[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)	590.2	544.8	8173
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	590.2	544.8	24243
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	590.2	544.8	30554
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃	590.2	544.8	14640
Ilmenite ()*	Corundum	Fe²⁺Ti⁴⁺O₃	590.2	544.8	5433
Kaolinite ()*	Clay Kaolinite	Al₂Si₂O₅(OH)₄	590.2	544.8	5591
Kyanite ()*	Not in a structural group	Al₂OSiO₄	590.2	544.8	1507
Marcasite ()*	Marcasite	FeS₂	590.2	544.8	5674
Margarite ()*	Mica Clay	CaAl₂Si₂Al₂O₁₀(OH)₂	590.2	544.8	168
Molybdenite ()*	Molybdenite	MoS₂	590.2	544.8	5800
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	590.2	544.8	17380
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	590.2	544.8	39462
Pyrrhotite ()*	Nickeline	Fe₇S₈	590.2	544.8	9056
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	590.2	544.8	61156
Rutile ()*	Rutile	TiO₂	590.2	544.8	5614
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	590.2	544.8	21482
Talc ()*	Clay Talc	Mg₃Si₄O₁₀(OH)₂	590.2	544.8	3337
Topaz ()*	Topaz	Al₂SiO₄F₂	590.2	544.8	1476

2 Ages assigned to this locality:

	Excel ID	Max Age (Ma)	Min Age (Ma)	Age as listed in reference	Dating Method	Age Interpret	Prioritized?	Sample Source	Sample Num	Run Num	Age from other Locality	Dated Mineral	Minerals explicitely stated as having this age	Age applies to these Elements	MinDat Locality ID	Dated Locality (Max Age)	Location as listed in reference	Reference	Reference DOI	Reference ID	Age Notes
	Giersdorf_00000238	562.8	544.8	553.8±9.0	Re-Os	The Re-Os ages for the Ridgeway and Haile mine molybdenites indicate that disseminated Au-Mo mineralization coincided with extension-related, Neoproterozoic-Early Cambrian felsic magmatism in a rifted arc system characterized by fault-bounded basins.			HMMO-3				Molybdenite		11715	Hale's Mine (Haile Gold Mine), Kershaw, Lancaster Co., South Carolina, USA	Haile Mine	Stein et al. (1997)		MDRE_313
	Giersdorf_00000239	590.2	583	586.6±3.6	Re-Os	The Re-Os ages for the Ridgeway and Haile mine molybdenites indicate that disseminated Au-Mo mineralization coincided with extension-related, Neoproterozoic-Early Cambrian felsic magmatism in a rifted arc system characterized by fault-bounded basins.			HMMO-3				Molybdenite		11715	Hale's Mine (Haile Gold Mine), Kershaw, Lancaster Co., South Carolina, USA	Haile Mine	Stein et al. (1997)		MDRE_313

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