Geochemical reconnaissance using heavy minerals from small streams in central South Carolina: areas favorable for prospecting the Carolina slate belt evaluated by Spectrographic analyses and cluster analyses

Geochemical reconnaissance using heavy-mineral concentrates panned from coarse alluvium has been carried out in the Cedar Creek-Blythewood area, South Carolina. This area in the central Piedmont is underlain by deeply weathered volcaniclastic and sedimentary rocks of the Carolina slate belt which are metamorphosed to a low grade.