Paga No. 3 Mine, PAGA Mine, Cartersville Mining District, Bartow County, Georgia, USAi

Regional Level Types
Paga No. 3 Mine	Mine
PAGA Mine	Mine
Cartersville Mining District	Mining District
Bartow County	County
Georgia	State
USA	Country

The Paga No. 3 mine is on lots 677 and 692, 4th district, 3d section, 1 1/4 miles north-northwest of Emerson, and a quarter of a mile east of Etowah River. The washer is in the southeast corner of lot 677 and the open-cut is in the northeast corner of lot 692. Both are on the south side of the Dixie Highway. The property belongs to the Georgia Peruvian Ocher Company, R. C. May, agent, Cartersville, except a little more than 4 acres comprising the extreme northeast corner of lot 692, which belongs to Mrs. Kittie P. Larey.
Although the deposit had been prospected some time previously, it was not opened and worked until July, 1917. P. C. Renfroe, of Cartersville, leased and operated the mine from 1917 to the first part of 1919. In 1919 the Paga Mining Company acquired Renfroe's interest in the property and the mine became known as Paga No. 3.

Barytes particles and fragments ranging in thickness from a fraction of an inch to more than a foot have been found on the surface and in test pits throughout a distance of approximately 300 yards south of the Dixie Highway, up to an elevation of about 780 feet above sea level. Nodules also occur 150 yards southeast of the cut in the direction of the Nulsen mine. Water-worn quartz pebbles are abundant in places on the hillside up to an elevation of 860 feet above sea level or about 175 feet higher than the river. Small open-cuts and entries have been made in brown iron ore at elevations of 900 and 960 feet on the hillside.