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Limonite from
Cave-in-Rock, Cave-In-Rock Mining Sub-District, Hardin County, Illinois, USA


Locality type:Village
Classification
Species:'Limonite' (not an IMA approved species)
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Limonite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Cave-in-Rock, Cave-In-Rock Mining Sub-District, Hardin County, Illinois, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:287922
Long-form Identifier:1:3:287922:2
GUID (UUID V4):312bf768-8d12-4882-a086-8b27a998bb09
Nearest other occurrences of Limonite
5.5km (3.4 miles) Green-Defender Mine, Austin Group, Spar Mountain (Iron Mountain), Cave-In-Rock Mining Sub-District, Hardin County, Illinois, USA
5.8km (3.6 miles) Spar Mountain (Iron Mountain), Cave-In-Rock Mining Sub-District, Hardin County, Illinois, USA
17.8km (11.1 miles) Wallingford Prospect, Crittenden County, Kentucky, USA
20.8km (12.9 miles) Stewart Mine No. 2, Stewart Mining Sub-District, Hardin County, Illinois, USA
21.0km (13.1 miles) Stewart Mine No. 1, Stewart Mining Sub-District, Hardin County, Illinois, USA
21.5km (13.4 miles) Babb Fault System, Crittenden County, Kentucky, USA
22.8km (14.2 miles) Hicks Branch, Hicks, Hardin County, Illinois, USA
31.3km (19.4 miles) Klondike Mine (Coker Donakie; NE Klondike; Bernard), Illinois - Kentucky Fluorspar Mining District, Livingston County, Kentucky, USA
40.3km (25.0 miles) Smithland meteorite, Livingston County, Kentucky, USA
49.3km (30.6 miles) Jesse Redd Prospect, Illinois - Kentucky Fluorspar Mining District, Caldwell County, Kentucky, USA
References
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Journal (issue)
Wilson T he Circulation Manager Mary Lynn Michela M in e r a l o g ic a l R ecord Associate Editors Pierre...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...S-M SA S y m p o siu m o n cop p er and cop p er m in e r a ls ................................................. 51 Chairman: K. Wenrich W hat's n e w in m in erals D en v er S h o w 1996 .................
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THE BEDDING OF FLUORSPAR IN L. W. REPLACEMENT THE CURRIER. ILLINOIS DEPOSITS FIELD. • ABSTRACT... The banded fluorspar deposits of the Cave In Rock district are attributed to replacementof limestone...preservation of bedding and cross-beddingof the rock. The solutionscontained hydrofluoric acid which...but continueddepositionof calcium fluoride, brought in from other points, partly or completelyfilled the... reflect the alternating, impure bands of the rock in which the fine-grained impurities (ferriferous
Report (issue)
URBANA ILLINOIS STATE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY 3 3051 00000 1911 Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2012...2012 with funding from University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign http://archive.org/details/fluorspardeposit58bast...rdeposit58bast STATE OF ILLINOIS DEPARTMENT OF REGISTRATION AND EDUCATION DIVISION OF THE STATE...NO. 58 THE FLUORSPAR DEPOSITS OF HARDIN AND POPE COUNTIES, ILLINOIS BY EDSON BASTIN S. «XK?S25S ...OF THE STATEIOF.ILLINOIS URBANA, ILLINOIS 1931 STATE OF ILLINOIS DEPARTMENT OF REGISTRATION AND EDUCATION
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Mississippi Valley Zinc-Lead District 42 0 THE MINERALS OF ILLINOIS: Mining Districts 10 70 30 40...40 50 m. 0 10 20 30 40 SO 00 Illinois Fluorspar District Holocene and Wisconsinan J2_-~-_-_-_- C...u a l i t y F o r m a t i o n ; silt, clav, sand in glacial, siackwater, and modern lakes. I n d u c...R and DAVID L . REINERTSEN Illinois Geological Survey Champaign, Illinois 61820 M A N H A S A L W A...species he encounters. Crystals and crystal clusters in particular have been collected and prized not only
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KENTUCKY OF SOLUTIONS FLUORSPAR E.A. OF THE ILLINOIS- DISTRICT BRECKE ABSTRACT Certain time determinations...Lineal magnetic anomalieswere mappedby Jenny (6) in the Embaymentarea along the 1293 1294 E. •I. BRECKE..., / • /,' _/ • ( ; I•1 • I1• ' '1' ILLINOIS-KENTUCKY FLUORSP•R JACKSONRELATED GEOLOGIC FEATURES...the earliest igneousactivity of this feature was in Middle Cretaceous. Intrusives such as Magnet Cove...complex,Arkansasbauxite area, and basicigneousmaterial in Arkansas and west along the BalconesFault systemof
Report (volume)
to the Geological Survey In Washington for an official mailing label to use in returning it UNITED STATES...FLUORSPAR AREAS IN HARDIN COUNTY ILLINOIS Part 1. GEOLOGY OF THE CAVE IN ROCK DISTRICT Part 2. AN EXPLORATORY...EXPLORATORY STUDY OF FAU1 TS IN THE CAVE IN ROCK AND ROSICLARE DISTRICTS BY THE EARTH-RESISTIVITY METHOD...SUEVEY OF FLUOKSPAE AEEAS IN HABDIN COUNTY ILLINOIS PART 1. GEOLOGY OF THE GATE IN BOCK DISTEICT By L. W...JR. PART 2. AN EXPLOEATOEY STUDY OF FAULTS IN THE CAYE IN EOCK AND EOSICLAEE DISTEICTS BY THE EAETH-EESISTIVITY
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Figure I: Galena, Treece, Kansas, Tri-State district; specimen 5Vi cm tall; Na­ tional Museum of Canada...Galena. Crawford mine, Pirher, Oklahoma, Tri-State district; 6' 2 cm across; Harvard Mineralogical Museum...Lead mine, Viburnum, Missouri, Viburnum Trend district; 6 cm on edge; James Madison Uni­ versity photo...prolific are these deposits that in 1985 the mines of the Viburnum Trend in southeastern Missouri accounted...characteristics that were first recognized as such in the mid-continent region of the United States. Geologists
Report (issue)
and Structure of the Western Kentucky Fluorspar District GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER Prepared...and Structure of the Western Kentucky Fluorspar District 53? Robert D. Trace and Dewey H. Amos CONTRIBUTIONS...PROFESSIONAL OF KENTUCKY PAPER 1151-D Prepared in cooperation with the Kentucky Geological Survey ...Pennsylvanian limestone and clastic rocks are exposed in northeasttrending horsts and grab ens UNITED STATES...L. Peck, Director Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Trace, Robert Denny, 1917Stratigraphy
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GENESIS OF DISTRICT, THE CAVE-IN-ROCK HARDIN E. A. COUNTY, FLUORSPAR ILLINOIS BRECKE CONTENTS...ABSTRACT Continuedprospecting and mining in the Cave-In-RockFluorspar District has developeddata that permits...permits a more detailed study of ore genesisof the district. The stratigraphyof the ore bearinghorizonsis...role in the movement of solutions. The structureis definedin three categorieson the basisof in- ducingforcesor...drillingandminingin theCave-In-Rock FluorsparDistrict. The Cave-In-Rock FluorsparDistrictis locatedin
Report (issue)
Fluorspar Deposits in Western Kentucky Part 1 A. Introduction By JAMES STEELE WILLIAMS and HELEN DUNCAN...Crittenden and Livingston Counties By GEORGE C. HARDIN, Jr. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 1012-A, B...00 (paper cover) ^A,V- ' ! Fluorspar Deposits in Western Kentucky Part 1 A. Introduction B. Babb fault...SURVEY BULLETIN 1012-A,B FLUORSPAR DEPOSITS IN WESTERN KENTUCKY INTRODUCTION By JAMES STEELE WILLIAMS...WILLIAMS and HELEN DTJNCAN The need for fluorspar in the manufacture of open-hearth steel, hydrofluoric
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Record, September-October 201✓ Mineral Collections in Texas A Supplement to The Mineralogical Record September-October...September-October 2014, Volume 45, number 5 Publisher & Editor-in-Chief: Wendell E. Wilson Editors: Thomas P. Moore...abundance of great mineral localities like those found in neighboring Arizona and New Mexico; Texas is oil...Texas collections generally tend tobe very broad in scope, and focused predominantly (though not exclusively)...display specimens. The vitality of mineral collecting in Texas today has already been weil demonstrated by
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KRISTALLE Est.1971 Laguna Beach, California, USA • Tel: +1 949 494 5155 • Email: info@kristalle.com...Collectors VOLU ME 53 • NUMBER 3 Publisher & Editor-in-Chief Wendell E. Wilson minrecord@comcast.net Associate.....................................307 What’s New in Minerals: Tucson Show 2022 ........................only): $139/one year (Canada) $231/one year, (outside USA other than Canada) $325 for one year Subscription...Literature Bio-bibliography This issue was made possible in part by generous contributions from The Fellows
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Caldwell Stone Company quarry, Danville, Boyle County. Terry Huizing specimen and photo. K entucky...Permian-age deposits. Cretaceous and Cenozoic rocks in the westernmost portion of the state consist of unconsolidated...highest point in the Commonwealth is Black Mountain in the Appalachians (Harlan County) at 4,139 feet...the Reed quarry near Grand Rivers (Livingston County) in western Kentucky, at 100 feet below sea level...are some noteworthy mineral occurrences in the sedimentary rock that encompasses more than 99 percent of
Report (volume)
DIRECTOR . THE FLUORSPAR DEPOSITS OF SOUTHERN ILLINOIS BY H. FOSTER BAIJST WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT PRINTING..................................... .......... Limonite ................ ............-.-..-.......-.-...---..-.-,.-...-..---..-.--.-.Scattered mines in Hardin County.......... ........................ General........ ....--..-.-....-.... Scattered mines in Pope County.................................. General relations...--..------.-,..--------..-......--.. Mines in Saline County .....-..--....-...-.--....-.---.........--General
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piece which I found at the foot of Valdez Glacier in Alaska. The only one of its kind covering a large...Indian Pass, Imperial County, Calif, we have a deep blue dumortierite that was sent in by Vertrees Young...806 E. Boulder St., Colorado Springs, Colo., sent in an attractive feldspar specimen of small xled white... This fine 3x5 inch specimen comes from Teller County, Colorado. ARIZONA — "Would you please identify...was found July 2, 1959, near Cave Creek, Maricopa County, Arizona." — sent in by Clyde N. Hall, Elbridge
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
MINERALS 375 SPECIAL MINERAL & ROCK COLLECTING IN THE ROSICLARE FLUORITE DISTRICT OF SOUTHEASTERN ILL. By JOSEPH...collecting of in the vein-type fluorite deposit and can fluorite in the Rosiclare District of South- be...collected as large crystalline masses eastern Illinois but few articles describe with octahedral or cubic...minerals and rocks that occur with or near in the Rosiclare district is more notably the multi-colored fluorite...marcasite, hydrocarbon, barite, grains and veinlets in fluorite. The galena malachite, quartz, smirhsonite
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ALABAMA—Xled calcite varying in color from colorless to amber, on white limestone, occurs in Miller's Lime Pit at...ALASKA—Bluish crusts of azurite on malachite occur in the copper mines at Sulzur, Prince of Wales Island...locale is yielding basal xls of calcite coated with limonite which fl. strong red (SW) equal to Franklin, N..."Collecting Fluorescent Minerals", a regular feature in R&M. xline—crystalline minated. They are small...the best tools for digging xls. A spade also comes in handy!—item dated Aug. 7, I960, from James Arient
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APPALACHIAN MINERAL A. V. HEYL, FROM THE UPPER THE ILLINOIS-KENTUCKY, VALLEY DISTRICTS M. H. DELEVAUX, ...Valley zinc-lead district ........................... Illinois-Kentucky fluorite district ................isotopesin galena in carbonaterock ore deposits collected from several mineralized districts in the Central...origin are consideredto explain these variations in isotopic ratios. One involvesmixing of leadsfrom...ted with severalof the intrusiverocksare similar in isotopiccomposition to adjacentore leads,but genetic
Book (edition)
MINNESOTA KANSAS • INDIANA • • MISSOURI ILLINOIS • NORTH DAKOTA • OHIO • MICHIGAN • NEBRASKA...IOWA WISCONSIN Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2010 http://www.archive.org/details/midwestgemtrailsOOzeit...Tourist Field includes SOUTH DAKOTA • MICHIGAN • ILLINOIS • IOWA WISCONSIN • OHIO • KANSAS • NORTH DAKOTA...and Miaerat Collector he found useful for data in related fields of interest. For the convenience...from most supply firms, book sellers and journals in this field, or may be had direct from THE MINERALOGIST
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9.5 x 13.5 cm and is housed at the British Museum in London (GR 2003.12-2.21). Photo© The Trustees of...reserved. byAlbertGilg Pliny the Elder (23-79 CE), in his well-known work Natural History, described luxury..."myrrhine" or "murrhine" ware, writing "their value lies in their varied colors: the veins, as they revolve,...where colors may be reflected such as we observe in the inner part of a rainbow." (translation Rackman...the victory of Pompey the Great over Mithridates in 62 BCE when Anatolia became part of the Roman Empire
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Items on new finds are desired. Please send them in. Abbreviations: x l — c r y s t a l xled—crystallized... Tenn., has sent in the following item on Alabama: "Arsenopyrite has been mined in adjacent parts of...sphalerite and chalcopyrite with quartz, feldspar, limonite, siderite, muscovite, biotite and possibly epidote...road. Yellville is the county seat and is situated in about the center of the county. I do not know if this...this mine is still in operation, as I haven't any recent report on same. Greenockite. "turkey fat", was
Catalog/List
survived our first winter along the Canadian border in North Dakota. H you arc into extreme weather events...this is the place to be. We had a total of 15 days in January where the temperature got down to minus 30...requirement. Imagine trying to walk around barefoot in temperatures that cold!! Numerous days saw the wind...to -80 or better, including one -120 day. A farmer in the area fro7,e to death walking 100 yards out to...than a normal number). No, we don't own any stock in AT&T, its just the best deal around to access the
Catalog/List
families the best of times in 1997. I don't know about where you folks live, but here in North Dakota along the...specimens you might want, or at least list substitutes in case we have sold some of the items you wanted. Thanks...ALL NEW STEMS FOE 1997: PYRITE SUNS IN SHALE MA TRIX: Sparta, Illinois: Always a very popular item that...golden suns as they are naturally found imbedded in the black shale matrix. Priced at $15.00 and $25... TOTAL WRECK WULFENITE: Total Wreck Mine, Pima County, Arizona; Nice butterscotch to near clear thumbnails
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placeswithin the area, but the igneo.us massesare small and in generalwidely spaced. Faults and low folds are numerous...some of them are traced scores of miles. Except in local areas,however,the rocksare not highly faulted...greatestlead ore district,the world's greatestzinc-leaddistrict, the world's greatestbarite district, the 'world's...and finally precipitatedthe metalsalongfissuresand in favorablebeds. Recentlydetailedmappingin many parts...generallyknown. All of the mostimportantmineralbearingareasare in are'4sof extensivefaulting or elsethey lie on the
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
OCCURRENCES Items on new finds wanted. Please send them in. Abbreviations: xl—crystal xled—crystallized ALABAMA...Ala., interesting cherty halloysite has been found in dolomitic limestone. ARIZONA — A most interesting...have found Arizona to be a "rockhound's paradise'' in the 16 years that I have been here, especially Central...note of Feb. 11th at hand. Thanks for your interest in this matter. Yes, I can give you the location of...of the aragonite crystals. "The locality is in a very rough country, definitely no place for an amateur—
 
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