Mine detail: Eagle-Babb

Previously called ''

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Location

Lat / long: 37.27147, -88.24063

Resource(B)

Tertiary: Fluorine-Fluorite, Zinc
Other material: Fluorite, Sphalerite
Discovery year: 1904

Production

Operation type: Underground
Development status: Past Producer
First production started: 1943

Geology

References

MRDSW006913
MAS210550020
DEP10267275
Reference{Deposit:: HARDIN G C JR USGS BULL 1012 B 1955 P 33}{Deposit:: SWANSON, A.S., AND X.B. STARNES. INVESTIGATION OF FLOURITE}{Deposit:: DEPOSITS OF BABB VEIN SYSTEM, CRITTENDEN AND LIVINGSTON}{Deposit:: COUNTIES, KENTUCKY. US BUMINES RI 4677, 1950, 30 PP.}{Deposit:: DAVIS, H. W., AND G. N. GREENSPOON. FLOURSPAR AND CRYOLITE.}{Deposit:: CH. FROM US BUMINES MINERALS YRBK., 1946, PP. 507-524.}{Reserve-Resource:: ORE DEPOSITS OF THE BABB VEIN SYSTEM CRITTENDEN AND}{Reserve-Resource:: LIVINGSTON COUNTIES, KY. BUMINES WAR MINERALS REPORT 317, 1945, 33 PP.}{Reserve-Resource:: PHONE CONVERSATION WITH P. MCGRAIN, ASSIST. STATE GEOLOGIST,}{Reserve-Resource:: KENTUCKY GEOLOGIC SURVEY, APRIL 9, 1981.}
ReporterBrocoum, A.