Mine detail: Rosiclare Fluorspar - Lead - Zinc District

Previously called 'Hillside and Eureka Group (Includes Daisy and Dimmick Mines)Rosiclare MineGood Hope - Fairview - Blue Diggings (Alcoa Group)'

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Location

Lat / long: 37.43337, -88.35004

Resource(B)

Primary: Lead, Zinc, Fluorine-Fluorite
Tertiary: Quartz, Iron, Barium-Barite, Calcium
Discovery year: 1839

Production

Operation type: Unknown
Deposit type: VEIN/SHEAR ZONE
Production size: Large
Development status: Past Producer
First production started: 1870

Geology

Structure:HICKS DOME, ROCK CREEK GRABEN, NEW MADRIO FAULT ZONE, 38TH PARALLEL LINEAMENT
Alteration processes:SILICIFICATION OF WALL ROCK

References

MRDSW006925
DEP60001680
Reference{Deposit:: BAXTER, J.W., AND DESBOROUGH, G.A., 1965, AREAL GEOLOGY OF THE ILLINOIS FLUORSPAR DISTRICT, PT. 2: ILL. STATE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY CIRC. 385, 40 P.}{Deposit:: GROGAN, R.M. AND BRADBURY, J.C., 1968, FLUORITE -ZINC - LEAD DEPOSITS OF THE ILLINOIS - KENTUCKY MINING DISTRICT: IN RIDGE, J. D., ED., ORE DEPOSITS OF THE U.S. 1933 - 1967; AIME V. 1 P. 370 - 399}{Deposit:: TRACE, R.D., 1974, ILLINOIS - KENTUCKY FLUORSPAR DISTRICT: IN HUTCHESON, D. W., ED., SYMPOSIUM ON GEOLOGY OF FLUORSPAR, KENTUCKY GEOL. SURV. SPECIAL PUB. 22 P. 58 - 76}{Deposit:: WELLER, J.M., GROGAN, R.M. AND TIPPIE, F.E., 1952, GEOLOGY OF THE FLUORSPAR DEPOSITS OF ILLINOIS: ILL. STATE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULL. 76, 147 P.}{Deposit:: MUIR, N.M.,1947, DAISY FLUORITE MINE, ROSICLARE LEAD AND FLUORSPAR MINING COMPANY, HARDIN COUNTY, ILLINOIS: U.S. BUREAU OF MINES REPORT OF INVESTIGATION 4075, 16 P.}{Deposit:: MC GINNIS, L.D. AND BRADBURY, J.C., 1964, AEROMAGNETIC STUDY OF THE HARDIN COUNTY AREA, ILLINOIS: ILLINOIS STATE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY CIRCULAR 363, 12 P.}