Ridgeway Mine

Ridgeway Mine is a producer of gold, silver, copper, arsenic in Fairfield County, South Carolina, in USGS's medium output class. USGS records production from 1988. It is one of 2 historic gold producers USGS lists in Fairfield County, and number 1 when they are sorted by output class.

Facts

USGS status
Producer
Output class
medium (USGS class)
Commodities
Gold, Silver, Copper, Arsenic, Molybdenum
Workings
Surface
Production years
from 1988
Discovered
1969
County
Fairfield County
State
South Carolina
Land status (BLM data)
Land status not determined in the BLM dataset
USGS record
10056348

Source: USGS Mineral Resources Data System (retrieved 2026-10-13). The database was last updated around 2011, positions can be approximate, and "producer" does not mean a mine is operating today. "Output class" is a code whose meaning changed over the years, so compare sites inside this data and do not read it as tonnage.

Land status comes from the BLM Surface Management Agency dataset and can be out of date. Check ownership before you go near any mine site.