Mine detail: Blue Diggings-Mine and Fault

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Location

Lat / long: 37.42617, -88.35284

Resource(B)

Tertiary: Fluorine-Fluorite, Lead, Zinc
Other material: Fluorite, Galena, Sphalerite

Production

Operation type: Underground
Development status: Past Producer
First production started: 1910

Geology

References

MAS170690002
DEP10290431
Reference{Deposit:: GEOLOGY OF THE FLUORSPAR DEPOSITS OF ILL ILL GEOL SUR BULL 7}{Deposit:: BAXTER J W AND DESBOROUGH G A ILL GEOL SUR CIRC 385 PART 2}{Deposit:: ILLINOIS STATE GEOLOGIC SURVEY BULL 41}{Deposit:: BASTIN EDSON S FLUORSPAR DEPOSITS OF HARDIN AND POPE COUNTIE}{Deposit:: ILL ILL STATE GEOL SUR BULL 58 1931 P 76}{Deposit:: HOLLENBECK, R. P. FLUORSPAR IN THE EASTERN UNITED STATES.}{Deposit:: BUMINES IC 8339, 1967, P. 33.}{Deposit:: PHONE CONVERSATION (PMT) WITH GILL MONTGOMERY, A GEOLOGIST -}{Deposit:: CONSULTANT FOR FLUORSPAR PRODUCERS IN THE ILL. AREA.}
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