Cherokee Mine, Cherokee County, Georgia, USAi

Regional Level Types
Cherokee Mine	Mine
Cherokee County	County
Georgia	State
USA	Country

This mine, situated on lot 428, 15th district, was worked, as early as 1854, by Messrs. McConnell & Putnam. This firm erected a twelve-stamp mill, on the property, and successfully operated the mine, for three years, when it was sold to a Boston company, which continued the work, until the breaking out of the late war. Since then, no work, with the exception of a limited amount of prospecting, has been attempted.

Both vein- and placer-mining have been carried on, here. The latter was confined, principally, to the bed of a small stream, that runs at the base of the ridge, on which the veins are located. The gold, from this, has long since been exhausted. There is said to be a number of gold-bearing quartz veins in the ridge, all running parallel, and dipping with the schist. The excavations, however, along these veins, are in such shape, that exposures of only one or two of these were possible to be examined. They are quite variable, in thickness, and consist mainly of quartz, with iron-stained cavities. There are numerous shafts and tunnels, at various points, along the ridge, from which many hundred tons of valuable freemilling ore were taken.