Mine detail: Hoeb Mine

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Location: Hardin County, Illinois, United States, North America
Lat / long: 37.55813, -88.23225
dep_id: 10082994
mrds_id: W062475
Commodity type: nonmetallic
Major mineral: Fluorine-Fluorite
Operation type: Unknown
Production size: Production occurred
Development status: Past Producer
model: 174: Fluorspar deposits (fluorite veins)
ore_ctrl: Faulting
Reporter: Sutphin, David M., Mason Jr., G.T.
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:
  • 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.
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