 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | MINERALS OF THE Harris Creek Fluorspar District Hardin County, Illinois ROSS C . L I L L I E P . O ...O V E R 140 Y E A R S , the mines of southern Illinois have been producing lead, zinc, and fluorspar...come from the renowned district of Cave in Rock and adjacent deposits. Mining activity is presently restricted...new orebodies recently discovered in the Harris Creek district (figure 1). History The earliest known use...located on the southwest end of the Cave in Rock district. On an excursion in 1821, he revisited the same |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Sphalerite and calcite, 5 cm across, Denton mine, Hardin County. Ross Lillie specimen. +!.+!+%% 34!2+ ...chalcopyrite, and sphalerite, 12.7 cm high, Hardin County. Marv Rausch specimen. 3(%,"9 -!#/50). /5...3/. 0/0% (!2$). -!33!# 05,!3+) %8 !. $% 2 Illinois Mineral Locality Index 7)..%"!'/ /',% #!22/...(above). Map showing the counties in Illinois, courtesy the Illinois Geological Survey. 96*2: 405...at 19:53 09 October 2014 T he bedrock under Illinois is predominantly composed of Paleozoic sedimentary |  | | Journal (issue) | | Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A, County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Steven R. Morehead...Twenty-eight, Number One Hlmois-Kentucky Fluorite District Correspondents Miguel Calvo Zaragoza, Spain Michael...ith calcite from the Minerva No. 1 mine, near Cave in Rock, Illinois. Marvin Rausch collection; Jeff Scovil...York; the Helvetia district, Arizona; O ntario’s Grenville Province; the Sterling mine at Antwerp, New York;...Alpine veins near Sherbrooke, Quebec; the Nanisivik mine on Baffin Island; the fluorite mines of Madoc, Ontario; |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | left). Fluorite, Heights mine, North vein, near Eastgate, Weardale, County Durham, England. This transparent...(center left). Fluorite, Dow Scar level, Hilton mine, near Appleby, Scordale, Cumbria, England. This...Rosiclare level, Denton mine, Harris Creek district, Hardin County, Illinois. The specimen is 8.5 × 7...the Lead Hill area, Cave-in-Rock district, Hardin County, Illinois, and is 5.5 cm. Ross Lillie specimen...this mineral. Examples include the Illinois-Kentucky fluorspar district (Lillie 1988, 2006); the North Pennines |  | Huizing, Terry E., Richards, R. Peter, Clifford, Janet H., Cook, Robert B. (2017) Connoisseur's Choice: Calcite from the American Midwest, Gordonsville Mine, Carthage, Smith County, Tennessee. Rocks & Minerals, 92 (1) 46-63 doi:10.1080/00357529.2017.1241690 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | from the American Midwest Gordonsville Mine, Carthage, Smith County, Tennessee C alcite is ubiquitous...Society. 46 ROCKS & MINERALS Tennessee Lead-Zinc district as our Connoisseur’s Choice; this locality is...the Gordonsville mine, Central Tennessee Lead-Zinc district near Carthage in Smith County. Calcite from...changed. It is known that the center of the large Illinois Basin accumulated sediments more than one mile...Mississippi Valley–type (MVT) deposits (in red) and mining districts in the American Midwest, and their relationship |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Auburn University Auburn, Alabama 36849-5305 CELESTINE Downloaded by [University of Calgary] at 13:58...13:58 04 February 2015 Maybee Quarry, Monroe County, Michigan C elestine, the only commercially significant...number of localities are famous for distinctive celestine and have produced thousands of specimens for many...unexpected celestine windfall is the object of this issue’s Connoisseur’s Choice. Celestine is an orthorhombic...counterpart barite, with which it can be confused. Celestine has perfect (001) cleavage, good {OlO} cleavage |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Figure I: Galena, Treece, Kansas, Tri-State district; specimen 5Vi cm tall; Na tional Museum of Canada...figure 2 (leftI: Galena. Crawford mine, Pirher, Oklahoma, Tri-State district; 6' 2 cm across; Harvard Mineralogical...page): Galena, St. Joseph Lead mine, Viburnum, Missouri, Viburnum Trend district; 6 cm on edge; James Madison...Geologists have now classified numerous deposits and mining districts in Canada and in other parts of the world...host rock.is dolomitized limestone. • The mining district is on a dome or arch. • Mineralization is |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | he had just acquired the George Feist Southern Illinois collection and that he would be offering the specimens...galena, calcite, barite, sphalerite, strontianite, celestine, quartz, marcasite, benstonite, and alstonite...from the DavisDeardorff complex, the Hill-Ledford mine, and the Minerva and Ozark-Mahoning properties....couldn’t resist sharing. COMMEMORATIVE QUARTER: ILLINOIS SPECIMENS: There’s a lot Arkansas’s shiny new...fluorite, sub-losiclare level, Annabel Lee mine, Ozark-MahoningCompany, Harris Creek district, Illinois (mined |  | | Journal (issue) | | from land, sea, and air, and two different gold mining operations. Some of you may recall the Grand Door....................... 3 The Southern Illinois Fluorspar District .......................................night at the museum! R The Southern Illinois Fluorspar District by Art Smith Member of the Houston Gem...Mineralogy. It is the Mineral Locality Index of Illinois. I love working on this type of project because...Southern Illinois Fluorspar district is a great example of what I am writing about. This district is by |  | | Journal (issue) | | Foote also made several collecting visits to the mine in 1890-1891, and brought back many good specimens...chemist and physicist). In 1895 Niven purchased the mine from its owner, on behalf of Thomas Edison. In the...there; the first claims were staked in 1894 and mining soon commenced. Eventually over two dozen mines...mines were opened, one of which (the Mariposa mine) produced a wider variety of mercury minerals than anywhere...scalenohedral calcite crystals. The Terlingua mercury district, with a few smaller, adjacent districts in Texas |  | | Report (issue) | | Brian Stefanec explores a pocket at the Elmwood mine. Photo Mark Kielbasa Switzerland BY HANS ANTON...108 Morocco's El Hammam: Six Decades of Fluorspar Mining BY PIERRE CLAVEL & GUNTHER NEUMEIER 112 Faceting...land Mine Complex Of Eastern Tennessee BY ARVID PASTO 56 64 The fluid inclusions in Illinois fluorite...Albert Gilg & BRIAN STEFANEC The Great Southern Illinois Fluorspar Deposits BY ROSS LILLIE Connecticut... Iridescent Fluorite from Ohio's Findlay Arch District BY JASON MCDONALD 69 Canada BY MARK MAUTHNER |  | | Journal (issue) | | Tue largest crystal measures 3 cm Heights mine, Weardale, County Durham, England. Stuart Strife collection;...photo Backcover: (upper left) Elbaite, 4.5 cm, Sapo mine, Goiabeira, Minas Gerais, Brazil; Gus Eitler collection;...right) Elbaite, 7.8 cm, Himalaya rnine, San Diego County, California; Kevin Brown collection; Jeff Scovil...5 cm, Tree Root pocket, Two Point claim, Teller County, Colorado; Karl Warning collection; Jeff Scovil...Rhodochrosite, 11.5 cm, Good Luck pocket, Sweet Horne mine, Alma, Colorado. Ex Steve Smale collection. Joe |  | | Journal (issue) | | Pakistan.Will Heierman collection. Illinois- Kentucky Fluorspar District Symposium by the Friends of Mineralogy...symposium on the closing of the Illinois-Kentucky fluorspar district that I organized at Indiana University...believed having a similar program in the fluorspar district would be ideal. However, the logistics behind...this year. In previous visits to the fluorspar district, I had made contact with Bill Frazer, the owner...Yen. Quy Chau. northern Vietnam: Chumar-Ruyil district. 1epal; Jegdalek. Afghanistan: and easLem Pamir |  | | Journal (issue) | | stibnites from a new Nevada locality, the Murray Mine, not the old Manhattan, but he had only three specimens...clear calcites from a small pocket in the Meikle Mine, the new locality for the superb yellow barites...specimens of azurite and malachite from the Flambau Mine in Wisconsin, now completely gone, of the chalcocite...News, P.O. Box 2043, Coeur d'Alene, ID 83816-2043 USA Phone: 208-664-2448 E-mail: lream@comtch.iea.com...find of calcite in complete "balls" from the Herja Mine near Baia Mare. Evidently a large vug, or series |  | | Journal (issue) | | Euclase, 2.3 cm, from the Gachalá mine, Guavió-Guatéque mining district, Boyacá Department, Colombia. Gail...cm, from Stak Nala, Haramosh Mountains, Skardu district, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan. Zach Goodman collection;...twin, 5.5 cm, from the Amo tin deposit, Ximeng County, Yunnan, China. Wally Mann collection; Joe Budd...Budd photo. Tanzanite, 7.6 cm, from the Merelani mine near Arusha, Tanzania. Barry & Beth Kitt collection;...2.2 cm, from the Pulsifer quarry, Androscoggin County, Maine. Kyle Kevorkian collection; Jordan Root |  | | Journal (issue) | | gypsum on chert that I collected at the Minerva No. 1 mine dump in 1985. It had bundles of orange crystals...documented specimen of hemimorphite from Hardin Co., Illinois. (Photo 1) A couple of specimens I had collected...collected in 1995 from the Annabel Lee mine ore pile had been cataloged as "celestine." I found those particular...microscope showed crystals that were not typical for celestine. They were typical for gypsum var. selenite (Photo...trips into the tluorspar district. One of the stops was the Pigmy (Pygmy) mine, near the village of Mexico |  | | Report (issue) | | International, LLC P.O. Box 263, East Hampton, CT 06424, USA Phone 1.860.267.1512; fax 1.860.267.7225 www.lapisint...at the Crystal River quarry, Lecanto in Citrus County Florida. Collection Francis Benjamin; photo Jeff...calcite twin on {1 OTI} from the Leiping mine, Guiyang County, Hunan, China. Collection Frederic Escaut;...on (0001} from St. Clair Lime quarry, Sequoyah County, Oklahoma. Collection Terry Huizing; photo Jeff...phenomenon of double refraction. California State Mining Museum; photo Jeff Scovil Back lower left: 6.2 |  | | Catalog/List | | of Crystallized Gold from the famed Eagle’s Nest Mine in California A superb Crystallized “Leaf” Gold...gemstone Amethyst to come from the famed Four Peaks Mine in Arizona A sharp and complicated Crystallized...Crystallized Silver with Copper from the famed Wolverine Mine in Michigan A “classic” Rhodochrosite with associated...associated Pyrite and Quartz from the Sweet Home Mine in Colorado An unusually massive and extremely colorful...colorful, Smithsonite from the iconic Kelly Mine in New Mexico A ‘gem’ quality specimen Tanzanite crystal in |  | | Journal (issue) | | 2 BIG SK Y COUNTRY Revisiting Montana’s Rich Mining History CAPTIVATED BY BIRTHSTONES Considering...Voynick 20 Aragonite 42 Exploring Montana’s Mining Past Out and About in the Pioneer Mountains Region...Cover 187.7-carat diamond recovered from the Diavik Mine in Canada; a fossil ammonite recovered from Fox...Free minerals for kids Speakers Smithsonite, Kelly Mine, NM Watercolor by Frederick C. Wilda© Speakers...Virgil Lueth Kevin Downey Barite on Calcite Montreal Mine, WI Watercolor by Fred Wilda© Shop in Air Conditioned |  | | Book | | be minerals. Microcline, Crystal Peak, Colorado, USA * 12 x 9x 5 cm. Biominerals Crystals formed by biological...periods of stability PLANET | 114 San Carlos district, Chihuahua, Mexico * 8 x 4 x 2 om are uncommon...The result may be just a few crystals, as with celestine and fluorite, or the cavity may Growth Through...one after the other, as in fluorite growth on celestine. Delicate crystals can be overgrown by another...zeolites. Calcite (septarian nodule), San Juan County, Utah, USA » 18 x 24 x 8 om 14 MINERALS: PRODUCTS | | | Book | | be minerals. Microcline, Crystal Peak, Colorado, USA * 12 x 9x 5 om MINERALS: PRODUCTS OF A CHANGING...CHANGING PLANET 11 Vanadinite, San Carlos district, Chihuahua, Mexico * 8 x 4 x 2 cm Mineral Species Minerals...The result may be just a few crystals, as with celestine and fluorite, or the cavity may become lined with...one after the other, as in fluorite growth on celestine. Delicate crystals can be overgrown by another...zeolites. Calcite (septarian nodule), San Juan County, Utah, USA * 18 x 24x Bem 14 | MINERALS: PRODUCTS |  | | Journal (issue) | | Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Joseph A. Mandarino...by W. L. Wilson Kingsbridge, an early quarrying district on Manhattan Island ............................cerussite and pyromorphite, all from the Bleiberg district in Austria. For this edition we first had to locate...e u d o m o r p h FROM C a v e -I n -R o c k , ILLINOIS Carl A. Francis, David E. Lange, Lawrence C. Pitman...m ine near C a ve-in -R o ck, H ardin C ounty, Illinois. T h e y are replacement pseudom orphs o f barite |  | | Journal (issue) | | Cassedanne A vivianite occurrence in Contra Costa County,California ... 337 by C. B. DeWitt Essay: minerals...Moore Phosphate minerals from the Leveaniemi iron mine, Svappavaara, Sweden .............................Hollabaugh Laueite from Hagendorf-Siid andthe Palermo mine ................. 363 by L. C. Pitman New data...localities: The Phoenixville lead-silver mines, Chester County, Pennsylvania ...................................belonged to his deceased grandfather, who had been a mining engineer. Curators receive such calls fre quently |  | | Journal (issue) | | Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Joseph A. Mandarino...Colorado & Pikes Peak M inerals L & T Creations Lee A. M cKinney 1800 Winfield Drive Lakewood, CO 80215...gratifying. One young mineralogist, a former student of mine, said that although he had never met Mike, he had...doubt, be much silver. Subsequently a well-equipped mining expedition was dispatched to the site, but after...captain Juan de Villarroel, who was involved in mining at Porco about 75 km away. He had been chasing |  | | Book | | from power stations fuelled by locally mined coal. Mining directly employs half a million people and another...million people formally employed in the country. The mining industry returns billions to the economy in operating... taxes, royalties, dividends and interest. The mining industry, and the minerals on which it relies,...(field of view 8 cm). Figure 1.3 An opencast iron ore mine (Postmasburg, South Africa). 7 microscopes, or...layers consisting of either (C) two or (D) three sub-layers. These compound layers are held together by |
|
Annabel Lee Mine, Harris Creek Mining Sub-District, Hardin County, Illinois, USA