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Copper, mercury, and iron ores, as also pure copper, ochre and sulphur, are found in the peninsula.
Limonite in the form of ochre occurs in considerable quantity.
Manufactures of ochre, of which there are quarries in the vicinity, and of iron goods are carried on.
Minerals which were not mined commercially in 1902 include asbestos, which occurs in Spartanburg and Pickens counties; fullers'-earth; graphite in Spartanburg and Greenville counties; iron ores in the north and north-west portions of the state; iron pyrites in Spartanburg and York counties; talc, bismuth, ochre, pyrites, ' galena, brown coal, malachite, phosphate of lead and barytes.
Other industries are brewing, printing and iron-founding, and there are ochre and iron mines in the neighbourhood.