Mine detail: Hoeb Mine

Previously called ''

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Location

Lat / long:

37.55813, -88.23225

Resource(N)

Primary:

Fluorine-Fluorite

Production

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

Geology

Structure:	Goose Creek Fault System And Goose Creek-Hoeb-Greene Fluorspar Vein Along The Northwestern Edge Of Rock Creek Graben.
Tectonic:	Gentle Regional Structural Slope Northward Into Illinois Basin Is Broken By The Tw0-Mile-Wide Rock Creek Graben.

References

MRDS	W062475
DEP	10082994
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:: BAXTER, J.W., POTTER, E.P., AND DOYLE, F.L., 1963, AREAL GEOLOGY OF THE ILLINOIS FLUORSPAR DISTRICT, PART 1--SALINE MINES, CAVE IN ROCK DEKOVEN, AND REPTON QUADRANGLES: ILLINOIS STATE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY CIRCULAR 342, 43 P.}
Reporter	Sutphin, David M., Mason Jr., G.T.