Lat / long: | 37.5234, -88.17281 |
Primary: | Fluorine-Fluorite |
Ore: | Fluorite |
Orebody form: | BLANKET |
Operation type: | Unknown |
Production size: | Yes |
Development status: | Past Producer |
First production started: | 1939 |
Host rock: | Cypress Sandstone |
Host type: | Sandstone |
Tectonic: | Gentle Regional Structural Slope Northward Into Illinois Basin Is Broken By The Tw0-Mile-Wide Rock Creek Graben. |
MRDS | W062499 |
DEP | 10083014 |
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 I ROCK, DEKOVEN, AND REPTON QUADRANGLES; ILLINOIS STATE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY CIRCULAR 342, 43 P.} |
Reporter | Sutphin, David M., Mason Jr., G.T. |