Mine detail: Prairie Creek Kimberlite

Previously called 'MurfreesboroCrater of Diamonds'

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Location

Lat / long: 34.03374, -93.67353

Resource(N)

Primary: Diamond
Gangue: Chlorite, Mica, Phlogopite, Serpentine
Orebody form: PIPE
Discovery year: 1906

Production

Operation type: Unknown
Deposit type: Magmatic Vein
Production size: Small
Development status: Producer
Production years: 1919-20, 1948-49
First production started: 1909
Last production ended: 1949

Geology

Host type:Kimberlite
Structure:Edge Of Oachita Mts., In The Gulf Coastal Plain, Kimberlite Pipe

References

MRDSWA00040
DEP10111285
Reference{Deposit:: MILLAR, HOWARD A., 1976, IT WAS FINDERS KEEPERS AT AMERIC* ONLY DIAMOND MINE: NEW YORK, NY, CARLTON PRESS, INC. (A HEARTHSTONE BOOK), 175 PAGES.}{Deposit:: ARKANSAS GEOLOGICAL AND CONSERVATION COMMISSION, 1959 (REVISED ED.), MINERAL RESOURCES OF ARKANSAS: ARKANSAS GEOLOGICAL AND CONSERVATION COMMISSION BULLETIN 6, P. 60-61.}{Deposit:: MEYER, HENRY O.A., LEWIS, RICHARD D., BOLIVAR, STEPHEN, AND BROOKINS, DOUGLAS G., 1977, PRAIRIE CREEK KIMBERLITE, MURFREESBORO, PIKE COUNTY, ARKANSAS: GENERAL DESCRIPTION FOR FIELD EXCURSION 24 SEPT. 1977: SECOND INTERNATIONAL KIMBERLITE CONFERENCE, HELD IN SANTA FE, NM, OCT. 1977.}{Deposit:: MISER, H.D., AND ROSS, C.S., 1923, DIAMOND-BREARING PERIDOTITE IN PIKE COUNTY,ARKANSAS: US GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 735, P. 279-322}{Deposit:: THOENEN, J.R., HILL, R.S., HOWE, E.G., AND RUNKE, S.M., 1949, INVESTIGATION OF THE PRAIRIE CREEK DIAMOND AREA, PIKE COUNTY, ARKANSAS: U.S. BUREAU OF MINES REPORT OF INVESTIGATIONS 4549, 24 PAGES.}{Production:: ORAL COMMUNICATION, MIKE HOWARD, GEOLOGIST, ARKANSAS GEOLOGIC AND CONSERVATION DIV., 9/93}
ReporterJenness, Jane E.