Mine detail: Levias - Crittenden Springs Group Fluorspar Mines

Previously called 'KeystoneAda FlorenceFranklinMary Belle and Columbia Mines'

<< Back to the map

Location

Lat / long:

37.3334, -88.1667

Resource(B)

Primary:	Fluorine-Fluorite, Zinc, Lead
Ore:	Galena, Sphalerite
Gangue:	Calcite
Orebody form:	LINEAR

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Production size:	Yes
Development status:	Past Producer
First production started:	1903

Geology

Host rock:	St. Louis Limestone;Ste. Genevieve Limestone;Renault Formation;Bethel Sandstone
Host type:	Sandstone,Limestone
Associated rock:	Lamprophyre Dike
Associated type:	Lamprophyre
Structure:	New Madrid Fault Zone, 38th Parallel Lineament., Dike - Eaton Faults, Griffith Bluff Graben.

References

MRDS	W006909
DEP	10105532
Reference	{Deposit:: STARNES, X.B., 1947, J.D. PRICE FLUORITE DEPOSIT, CRITTENDEN COUNTY, KY.: U.S. BU MINES REP. INV. 4087}{Deposit:: TRACE, R.D., 1962, GEOLOGY AND FLUORSPAR DEPOSITS OF THE LEVIAS - KEYSTONE AND DIKE - EATON AREAS, CRITTENDEN CO., KY. USGS BULL. 1122E}{Deposit:: TRACE, R.D., 1974, ILLINOIS - KENTUCKY FLUORSPAR DISTRICT, IN - A SYMPOSIUM ON THE GEOLOGY OF FLUORSPAR: KENTUCKY GEOLOGICAL SURVEY SPECIAL PUB. 22, P. 58 - 76}{Deposit:: TRACE, R.D., 1962, GEOLOGY OF THE SALEM QUADRANGLE, KENTUCKY: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY GEOLOGIC QUADRANGLE MAP GQ-206.}{Deposit:: 1944 DIREXPL U.S. BU MINES - NO ORE FOUND AT PRICE}{Deposit:: 1945 GEOLMAP TRACE, R.D., HARDIN, G.C., & KLEPSER, H.J.}{Deposit:: 1962 GEOLMAP TRACE, R.D.}{Production:: STARNES, X.B., 1947, USBURMINES REPT. INV. 4087.}
Reporter	Schruben, Paul G.