Mine detail: Clement

Previously called 'Clement-Dyspeck'

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Location: Hardin County, Illinois, United States, North America
Lat / long: 37.45201, -88.33671
dep_id: 10082963
mrds_id: W062435
Commodity type: nonmetallic
Major mineral: Fluorine-Fluorite
Operation type: Unknown
Production size: Production occurred
Development status: Past Producer
ore: Fluorite
gangue: Calcite
work_type: Surface/Underground
model: 174: Fluorspar deposits (fluorite veins)
ore_ctrl: Faulting, Brecciation
Reporter: Sutphin, David M., Mason Jr., G.T.
Structure: Probably Eureka Vein
tectonic: Tectonic Setting: Gentle Regional Structural Slope Northward Into Illinois Basin Is Broken By The Tw0-Mile-Wide Rock Creek Graben.
Year first produced: 1904
yr_lst_prd: 1943
References:
  • Deposit:: U.S. BUREAU OF MINES, 1995, SPATIAL DATA EXTRACTED FROM THE MINERALS AVAILABILITY SYSTEM/MINERAL INDUSTRY LOCATION SYSTEM (MAS/MILS): U.S. BUREAU OF MINES SPECIAL PUBLICATION 12-95.
  • Deposit:: BASTIN, E.S., 1931, THE FLUORSPAR DEPOSITS OF HARDIN AND POPE COUNTIES, ILLINOIS: ILLINOIS STATE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 58, 116 P.
  • Deposit:: WELLER, J.M., GROGAN, R.M., AND TIPPIE, F.E., 1952, GEOLOGY OF THE FLUORSPAR DEPOSITS OF ILLINOIS: ILLINOIS STATE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 76, 147 P.
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