Check Out These Photographs of the Haile Mine! — Lancaster County

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Check Out These Photographs of the Haile Mine! — Lancaster County

Gold Mining Site SC • Lancaster County County
Description
Reported By: Little John Ingram Mine - was an old lode mine. Izell (Ezell?) Mine - produced fine cabinet ore specimens, but it was not worked after 1850s . Johnson (Strand) Mine - was following a gold vein in quartz. 1855 It was abandoned in Knight's Prospect - was a small producer in the 1850s. Phiffer Mine - was an old lode mine. Stevens Mine - it was productive in 1840s . It has been said that on the dumps there is pannable gold. Stroud Mine - was a small mine
Historical Notes
Source: Tom Ashworth's Prospectors Cache (tomashworth.com / Mike Higbee / 49erMike). Author: Tom Ashworth. Original page: lancaster_sc.shtml. State index: https://web.archive.org/web/20040830075749/http://www.tomashworth.com/goldloc.shtml Area: Check out these photographs of the Haile Mine!. Map coordinates are an approximate county centroid — not a precise claim site. Reported By: Little John Ingram Mine - was an old lode mine. Izell (Ezell?) Mine - produced fine cabinet ore specimens, but it was not worked after 1850s . Johnson (Strand) Mine - was following a gold vein in quartz. 1855 It was abandoned in Knight's Prospect - was a small producer in the 1850s. Phiffer Mine - was an old lode mine. Stevens Mine - it was productive in 1840s . It has been said that on the dumps there is pannable gold. Stroud Mine - was a small mine
Status / Verification historical_site — Legendary or approximate

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