Mine detail: Daisy-Daisy Vein No. 2 Shaft

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Location

Lat / long:

37.43535, -88.34615

Resource(N)

Primary:	Fluorine-Fluorite
Ore:	Fluorite
Gangue:	Calcite
Discovery year:	1910

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Production size:	Yes
Development status:	Past Producer

Geology

Structure:	Daisy Mine Is On The Daisy Veinand Is Probably On The Blue Diggins Vein At Least On The 412- And 500-Foot Levels.
Tectonic:	Gentle Regional Structural Slope Northward Into Illinois Basin Is Broken By The Tw0-Mile-Wide Rock Creek Graben.

References

MRDS	W062445
DEP	10082970
Reference	{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.}{Production:: BASTIN, 1931.}
Reporter	Sutphin, David M., Mason Jr., G.T.