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Big Room looking out | |
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Victory Mine, Cave-in-Rock, Cave-in-Rock Sub-District, Illinois - Kentucky Fluorspar District, Hardin Co., Illinois, USA This 1988 photograph is looking back to the entrance, from the "big room" (see other photo under Victory mine). Access was exposed by the Hastie's during their mining operations for fluorite, limestone and sandstone in the mid 1980's. Daylight from surface mine exposures are visible. Collecting here is no longer permitted. Fish-eye photograph by ... |
| © Alan Goldstein | Photo ID: 124128 View Count: 193 |
Cave in Rock cave | |
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Cave-in-Rock, Cave-in-Rock Sub-District, Illinois - Kentucky Fluorspar District, Hardin Co., Illinois, USA This is where the town of Cave in Rock got its name. This short, but impressive cave opens to the banks of the Ohio River. It is in Cave in Rock State Park. The sycamore tree at the entrance has since died and is gone. Photo by Alan Goldstein, about 1985. (From a scanned slide.) |
| © Alan Goldstein | Photo ID: 124112 View Count: 203 |
Diamond drill core dump | |
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Victory Mine, Cave-in-Rock, Cave-in-Rock Sub-District, Illinois - Kentucky Fluorspar District, Hardin Co., Illinois, USA The Allied Chemical Company dumped their entire core library in about 1986 at the Victory mine's mill site. Many thousands of cores are visible, most from the Illinois - Kentucky fluorspar district, with some from fluorite areas in Colorado. Every mineral from the district was collected from these cores except benstonite. Photo taken July, 1987 by ... |
| © Alan Goldstein | Photo ID: 124028 View Count: 266 |
Low-grade ore in adit | |
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Victory Mine, Cave-in-Rock, Cave-in-Rock Sub-District, Illinois - Kentucky Fluorspar District, Hardin Co., Illinois, USA This 1988 photograph shows passages in underground workings of the Victory mine that date at least from the 1950's and possibly earlier. It was exposed by the Hastie's during their mining operations for fluorite, limestone and sandstone in the mid 1980's. Bands of barite and fluorite are apparent, though no crystal pockets were exposed in the ... |
| © Alan Goldstein | Photo ID: 124032 View Count: 213 |
Minerva No. 1 mine and mill 1986 | |
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Minerva No. 1 Mine, Cave-in-Rock, Cave-in-Rock Sub-District, Illinois - Kentucky Fluorspar District, Hardin Co., Illinois, USA The Minerva No. 1 mine exploited the largest orebody in the Illinois - Kentucky fluorspar district. The mine operated from 1943 to 1975, and from 1989 to 1996. This photo was taken while the mine was idle. Photo by Alan Goldstein. |
| © Alan Goldstein | Photo ID: 124074 View Count: 299 |
Portals to the Victory Mine | |
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Victory Mine, Cave-in-Rock, Cave-in-Rock Sub-District, Illinois - Kentucky Fluorspar District, Hardin Co., Illinois, USA A view of the quarried out area around the Green-Defender mines that lead to the Victory mine at Hastie's quarry. Three openings are is visible in the background, though the rightmost one is very small and mostly hidden. The Hastie property is now off-limit to collectors and educational groups. Photograph by Debbie Goldstein in the late 1980's. |
| © Alan Goldstein | Photo ID: 124073 View Count: 193 |
Portals to Victory mine | |
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Victory Mine, Cave-in-Rock, Cave-in-Rock Sub-District, Illinois - Kentucky Fluorspar District, Hardin Co., Illinois, USA This 1988 photograph shows passages in the lower left from the underground workings of the Victory mine that date at least from the 1950's and possibly earlier. It is just west of the Green-Defender mine area. It was intermittantly mined by the Hastie's for fluorite, limestone and sandstone between 1983 - 1989. The large rock falls prove this is ... |
| © Alan Goldstein | Photo ID: 124031 View Count: 206 |
The Big Room | |
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Victory Mine, Cave-in-Rock, Cave-in-Rock Sub-District, Illinois - Kentucky Fluorspar District, Hardin Co., Illinois, USA This 1988 photograph shows a large room with tunnels leading to other underground workings in the Victory mine that date at least from the 1950's and possibly earlier. Access was exposed by the Hastie's during their mining operations for fluorite, limestone and sandstone in the mid 1980's. Bands of barite and fluorite are apparent, though no ... |
| © Alan Goldstein | Photo ID: 124033 View Count: 241 |
Victory mine dump | |
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Victory Mine, Cave-in-Rock, Cave-in-Rock Sub-District, Illinois - Kentucky Fluorspar District, Hardin Co., Illinois, USA Alan Goldstein climbs the mountainous dump of the Victory mine looking for specimens. While yard rocks are numerous, mineral specimens larger than thumbnails are few and far between. This dump is over 100 feet in length and at least two to three stories high! Access to this dump is no longer possible. Photo by Debbie Goldstein (late 1980's). |
| © Alan Goldstein | Photo ID: 124034 View Count: 175 |
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