Abstract The Haile gold mine is located in southern Lancaster County, South Carolina, near the town of Kershaw. Gold was discovered at the site in 1827, and four periods of mining have yielded 360,000 ounces of gold. The mine is located between the past producing Ridgeway and Brewer mines that, when all are combined, constitute a significant amount of historical gold production in the southeastern United States. These mines are hosted within Neoproterozoic to lower Cambrian Carolina terrane rocks and are dominated by volcanic and epiclastic units that have experienced greenschist facies metamorphism. Saprolitic weathering is present in the near-surface portions of the deposit and is locally covered by Cretaceous-aged Coastal Plain sediments. The gold mineralization at the Haile mine is hosted within silicified meta-sediments containing fine-grained disseminated pyrite and pyrrhotite and is a replacement type-epithermal deposit. Re-Os ages from molybdenite associated with the mineralization indicate that the deposit formed shortly after major, arc-related volcanic activity. Haile currently has a measured and indicated resource of 4.03 million ounces at an average grade of 1.77 g/t Au with an additional inferred resource of 801,000 ounces at an average grade of 1.24 g/t Au. Included in the resource is a reserve of 2.02 million ounces of gold at an average grade of 2.06 g/t. Mine construction began in May 2015, and gold production is expected by the end of 2016. The construction cost is expected to be US$380 million. Ore will be extracted from eight open pits with mill extraction and the current mine life is 14 years.

Abstract The Haile gold mine is located in north-central South Carolina, approximately mid-way between Columbia, SC and Charlotte, NC, near Kershaw in Lancaster County (Figure 1). The Haile gold mine has a long and colorful history. Gold was first discovered in 1827 or 1828 as placer in Haile Gold Mine Creek. The lode sources were discovered during the early years of placer mining and activity soon shifted to shallow open-pit and underground mining. The most productive periods of mining occurred between 1888-1908 and 1936-1942. Piedmont Mining Company resumed mining in 1985 and recovered 85,000 ounces of gold between April, 1985 and August 1991 when mining ceased. Total gold production from 1827 to 1991 is estimated at over 360,000 ounces (Speer and Maddry, 1992) mined from about eleven orebodies. The mine has also produced minor quantities of sulfur from pyrite and over 400,000 tons of Mineralite, a white clay-rich, industrial mineral product used mainly as a paint filler (Maddry and Speer, 1993). Recent exploration by an Amax Gold Inc. and Piedmont Mining Co. joint venture has identified new gold reserves in six orebodies (Figure 2) that currently total 8,736,000 tons of proven and probable ore at an average grade of 0.089 ounces gold per ton (opt) or 780,000 ounces gold. These reserves use a variable grade cut-off of about 0.025 opt gold, and the waste to ore ratio is 5.61:1. Most of these reserves are contained within sulfide ore. The total gold resource, at the same cut-off, is 17,000,000 tons at an

Abstract Three miles east of Kershaw, Lancaster County, South Carolina, there are two groups of mine workings referred to collectively as the Haile Gold Mine. Their location on opposite sides of Haile Gold Mine Creek and the surrounding mine area is shown on Figure 1. The mine is easily accessible from U.S. 601, South Carolina 188, and unpaved county roads. There are several property owners; however, in early 1984 the property was operated by Mineral Mining Corporation, Kershaw, South Carolina.