 | | 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) | | 1 (above). Sphalerite and calcite, 5 cm across, Denton mine, Hardin County. Ross Lillie specimen. +...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 (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...Penetration-twinned fluorite with preferential druse of calcite, indicating gravitational settling under stagnant...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 |  | | 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...group, 13 cm, w ith calcite from the Minerva No. 1 mine, near Cave in Rock, Illinois. Marvin Rausch collection;...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; |  | 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) | | janet15cliford@gmail.com CALCITE from the American Midwest Gordonsville Mine, Carthage, Smith County, Tennessee ...minerals as barite, fluorite, galena, and sphalerite. Calcite crystals are classic components of Mississippi...the continent can boast the same diversity of calcite. Yet, connoisseurship of fine minerals is not just...may occur. With this in mind, we have nominated calcite from the interconnected Elmwood/Cumberland/Gordonsville...Lead-Zinc district as our Connoisseur’s Choice; this locality is certainly among the very best calcite-producing |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | chalcopyrite and dolomite, Brushy Creek mine, Viburnum Trend, Reynolds County, Missouri. Dan Weinrich specimen...zinc and lead respectively), barite, fluorite, calcite, and dolomite. Several other minerals are found...Ohio. Figure 2. Calcite, doubly terminated crystal 7 cm long, Milliken (Sweetwater) mine, Viburnum Trend...Trend, Reynolds County, Missouri. Dan Weinrich specimen and photo. als may also be found in MVT deposits...deposits tend to occur in clusters (forming a district) at the margins of sedimentary basins, and they |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | steep calcite scalenohedra (12.2 cm wide), Annabel Lee mine, Harris Creek district, Hardin County, Illinois...modified by the octahedron, with calcite on galena (12 cm high), the Gibraltar mine, Naica, Chihuahua, Mexico...Yellow fluorite (10 cm high), Dow Scar Vein, Hilton mine, Appleby, Cumbria, United Kingdom. Figure 5. A...crystal (13 cm high), Denton mine, Harris Creek district, Hardin County, Illinois. Volume 95, July/August...fossils—brachiopods, horn corals, among others—in the local creek bed led to his first collection. (Cincinnati’s fossils |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 288-3½)6 AdditionalFluid InclusionData for the Illinois-KentuckyFluorsparDistrict' Evidencefor the Lack...replacement,vein, and breccia-hosted depositsin the Illinois-Kentuckyfluorspardistrict. Paragenetic relationships...generalagreementwith thosereportedpreviouslyfrom the district. Salinity-Threlationships for the AnnabelLee,...fluidduringthe waningstagesof purple6 and7 (P6 andP7), calcite,and baritedeposition. F1 dominatedduringthe precipitationof...Fluidmixingidentified duringfluoritedepositionin the Illinois-Kentucky districtis similarto that reportedpreviouslyin |  | | Journal (issue) | | 1998 The Mineral Collector's Newsletter The Illinois KentuckyFluorsparDistrictis Dead!Long Live the...commemorate the recent history of the Illinois-Kentucky fluorspar district. I had wanted to hold this gathering...pulling out. That was the death-knell for fluorite mining in the United States, the e~d of 163 year-long...Street Houston, Texas 77036 In April, 1998, Clyde Hardin of Malvern, Arkansas sent me some specimens he...quartz, Midstate Quarry, Magnet Cove, Hot Spring County, Arkansas. 2 Mineral News The 9th Maine Mineral |  | | 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 (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 |  | | 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 (article/letter/editorial) | | Library] at 00:11 06 November 2014 Eagle Mine, Cilman, Eagle County, Colorado W orld production of zinc...number of good sphalerite occurrences, the Eagle mine at Gilman holds the record as that state’s leading...sphalerite after galena, tetrahedrite, barite, and calcite have been found; hemimorphite and smithsonite pseudomorphs...commercial zinc mines of the BalmatEdwards district in Saint Lawrence County (Smith and Figure 1. A fine example...sphalerite (variety marmatite) on siderite from the Eagle mine, Gilman, Colorado. The 8.4-cm specimen is in the |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | he had just acquired the George Feist Southern Illinois collection and that he would be offering the specimens...at Detroit. Included would be fluorite, galena, calcite, barite, sphalerite, strontianite, celestine, quartz...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...Murfreesboro. Calcite on fluorite, sub-losiclare level, Annabel Lee mine, Ozark-MahoningCompany, Harris Creek |  | | 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 (article/letter/editorial) | | at 13:58 04 February 2015 Maybee Quarry, Monroe County, Michigan C elestine, the only commercially significant...variety of minerals, including strontianite, gypsum, calcite, dolomite, fluorite, and sulfur; clastic rock units...gypsum and as casts after halite and calcite are known, as are calcite, quartz, barite, and sulfur pseudomorphs... Michigan Stone Company quarry, Maybee, Monroe County, Michigan. Unusual celestine and associated sulfur...associated with brown fluorite from Clay Center, Ottawa County, Ohio, grace most museum collections. Other noteworthy |  | | Catalog/List | | Spnng 1<.empmn 11-1a Maren. 1 FLUORITE. Kharan District. Baluchistan, Pakistan. Rare locality frosted...Last Chanoe Pocket,Smoky Hawk Mine, Florissant, Teller Co., Colorado, USA. Deep coloured well formed xtl... 2 CALCITE on BARITE, Roslclare Level, Annabel Lee Mine, Harris Creek District, Southern Illinois, USA...sparkling xtls. 58x36x35mm. £26 Pectolite,Koashva Mine, Khibina massif, Kola, Russia: Rare+. Large orange...QUARTZ with Epidote, Albite and Actlnolite, Siph Mine, Sipl Co., Chocy Oept, Columbia. Very unusual rare |  | | Report (issue) | | Z=3 X-ray Powder Pattern: Minerva No. 1 mine, Illinois, USA; essentially identical to alstonite. 3.550...[99.6] [101.25] 100.00 (1) Minerva No. 1 mine, Illinois, USA; by electron microprobe, CO2 calculated for...Association: Calcite, alstonite, fluorite, sphalerite (Minerva No. 1 mine, Illinois, USA); olekminskite...olekminskite, calcite, barite, ankerite, ancylite-(Ce), narsarsukite, sphalerite, galena (Kedrovyi massif, Russia)...the Minerva No. 1 and Annabel Lee mines, Cave-in-Rock, Hardin Co., Illinois, USA. At the Kedrovyi massif |  | | Report (issue) | | Deposits in the Midcontinent Region Rosiclare, Illinois to Ironton and Viburnum, Missouri June 30-July...United States of America Leaders: James W. Baxter Illinois Dept. of Energy and Natural Resources State Geological...MO 65401 Associate Leaders: James C. Bradbury Illinois Dept. of Energy and Natural Resources State Geological...Missouri. lIllinois State Geological Survey, Urbana, Illinois. 2Missouri Geological Survey, Rolla, Missouri...The Ozark dome in south central Missouri and the Illinois basin are the major structures in the field trip |  | | Journal (issue) | | Weber by the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County (see February 2005 Mineral News - Ed.). Between...noted for the mounted specimens acquired by the LA County Museum, the collection provides a solid reference...unpublished 'skorpionite' from the new Skorpion Mine near Rosh Pinah in Southwest Namibia were offered...or tarbuttite. Skorpion Mine is expected to become the world's largest zinc mine, covering 15% of our zinc...new minerals from that mine. I saw a few pieces of kochsandorite from the coal mine at Many in Hungary. |  | | Journal (issue) | | stock certificates for mines in the Cripple Creek District, Colorado, in 1898 and 1901. Sponsorship: This...Kile Brian Kosnar Bryan & Kathryn Lees Ian Merkel Mining Hall of Farne, Steve Whittington curator Nick North...did not escape the notice of some of the earliest mining men to work in there. Unlike the neighboring states...is basically a hardrock state where mining (and specimen mining) must typically cut through granite and...Sweet Horne mine, Breckenridge, Mount Antero, the Sunnyside mine, Creede, Cripple Creek, Pikes Peak and |  | | Journal (issue) | | 279; Azurite-Bob Howard collection, page 138; Calcite- Kevin Schofield collection, page 228; Pezzottaite-Jim...collection, page 135. Backcover: (lefl column) Calcite-Kevin & Mark Brown collection, page 52; Smoky quartz...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 |  | | Report (issue) | | extraLapis English No. 4: Calcite To Our Readers: As we established our company, we made a commitment...International, LLC P.O. Box 263, East Hampton, CT 06424, USA Phone 1.860.267.1512; fax 1.860.267.7225 www.lapisint...that they bring. - GS/GN Every Man's Mineral Calcite is found the world over. T his 5.8 cm wide specimen...at the Crystal River quarry, Lecanto in Citrus County Florida. Collection Francis Benjamin; photo Jeff...center: 4:5 cm high calcite twin on {1 OTI} from the Leiping mine, Guiyang County, Hunan, China. Collection |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | world'smajorsourcesof basemetals(Pb, Zn) and from the Illinois-Kentuckyfluorite districtare used fluorite. Over...theseinvestigations haveestablished that Mississippi The Illinois-Kentuckyfluorspardistrictis located Valley-ty...edfrom hot (50ø-220øC), in southern Illinois along the Illinois-Kentucky saline(10-30 wt % Na-Ca-C1)...1979). These divided into the Cave-in-Rock and Harris Creek subfluidsare thoughtto have been expelledfrom...of imaginativemethodsemployedto dateMissis- the Illinois basin,which overliesthe PaleozoicReelsippi Valley-type |
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Annabel Lee Mine, Harris Creek Mining Sub-District, Hardin County, Illinois, USA