Mine detail: Dyers Hill Fluorspar Deposits

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Location

Lat / long: 37.21674, -88.38337

Resource(B)

Primary: Fluorine-Fluorite, Zinc, Lead
Tertiary: Cadmium, Germanium, Gallium
Ore: Galena, Sphalerite
Gangue: Calcite, Limestone, Sandstone, Shale
Orebody form: LINEAR
Discovery year: 1950

Production

Operation type: Unknown
Production size: Yes
Development status: Past Producer
First production started: 1956

Geology

Host rock:Fredonia Formation Limestones
Host type:Limestone
Associated rock:Mafic Dike
Associated type:Mafic Intrusive Rock
Structure:New Madrio Fault Zone, 38th Parallel Lineament, Lockhart Bluff Graben

References

MRDSW006916
DEP10069401
Reference{Deposit:: TIBBS, J.S., 1974, GEOLOGY AND HISTORY OF PENWALT CORPORATIO* DYERS HILL MINE, LIVINGSTON COUNTY, KENTUCKY, IN - A SYMPOSIUM ON THE GEOLOGY OF FLUORSPAR: KY. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY SPECIAL PUB. 22, P. 87 - 95}{Deposit:: TRACE, R.D., 1974, ILLINOIS - KENTUCKY FLUORSPAR DISTRICT, IN - A SYMPOSIUM ON THE GEOLOGY OF FLUORSPAR: KY. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY SPECIAL PUB. 22 P. 58 - 76}{Deposit:: AMOS, D.H., 1967, GEOLOGIC MAP OF PART OF THE SMITHLAND QUADRANGLE, LIVINGSTON COUNTY, KENTUCKY: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY GEOLOGIC QUADRANGLE MAP GQ-657.}{Deposit:: 1967 GEOLMAP AMOS, D.H}{Production:: TIBBS, J.S., 1974, GEOL. OF DYERS HILL MINE, KENTUCKY}{Reserve-Resource:: TIBBS, J.S., 1974, GEOL. OF DYERS HILL MINE, KY.}
ReporterSchruben, Paul G.