Oconee County South Carolina

MINES:

Cochran (Lawton) Placer Mine - was a productive placer.

Cox Prospect - was following a quartz vein cutting slates mining low - grade ores.

Henckel Mine - was a lode gold mine.

Jesse Lay Mine - was an old lode gold mine.

Kuhnmand (Old Cheohee) Mine - was an old lode gold mine, but nearby creek gravels contain placer gold.

Pickens Mine - was a lode gold mine.

Sitton Mine - this mine consisted of quartz stringers in schist. It was a lode mine, but in the area of the mine small nuggets have been found.

Sloan Placer - was worked before the Civil War The mine was tracing quartz stringers mica schist. It was free milling gold.

White Water - Toxaway Placers Mine - was discovered in the 1850s and was quite productive.

SUGGESTED PROSPECTING AREAS:

Chatooga River - check this river in the area of the Henckel Mine.

Toxaway River - Area, bed, bar, and bench gravels between the Toxaway and White Water rivers have proven productive.

White Water River - is a productive placer.

Middle Fork of Cheohee Creek - may produce some placer gold.