Harleyville Quarry, SC

Harleyville/Holly Hill, SC

ARGOS USA Cement Quarry
(formerly LaFarge Cement Quarry)
(formerly Blue Circle Cement Quarry)

CLOSED TO COLLECTING

IN MAY OF 2011, LaFARGE SOLD IT'S HARLEYVILLE QUARRY TO CEMENTOS ARGOS S.A., a multiregional company with a market cap of around $7 billion based in Colombia, South America. ARGOS USA is the second largest cement producer in the southeastern U.S and has decided to stop all fossil collecting at this quarry.

The educational programs that Blue Circle and LaFarge conducted for many years will be greatly missed by all collectors of fossils in the southeast.

[All photographs by Ron Ahle]

The fossil collecting grounds at LaFarge Cement Quarry
(formerly Blue Circle Cement Quarry) Harleyville, South Carolina

This mine is primarily noted for its Eocene Epoch (37.5 to 54 million years old) marine fossils including scallops, oysters, brachiopods, echinoids, shark teeth, ray teeth, marine mammals, etc. Some of the different sharks teeth represented included sand shark, lemon shark, tiger shark, mako, snaggle tooth and great white shark.