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Sphalerite from
Brown County, Illinois, USA


Locality type:County
Classification
Species:Sphalerite
Formula:ZnS
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Sphalerite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Brown County, Illinois, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:440266
Long-form Identifier:1:3:440266:4
GUID (UUID V4):eb3e571d-ae6e-4b90-bf09-07f42f678233
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Paleozoic Sedimentary Rocks of Northeastern Wisconsin, USA John A. Luczaj 1, *, Michael J. McIntire 2 and Megan...University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, Green Bay, WI 54311, USA Department of Natural & Applied Sciences (Chemistry)...University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, Green Bay, WI 54311, USA; mcintirm@uwgb.edu Department of Natural & Applied...University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, Green Bay, WI 54311, USA; olsonhum@uwgb.edu Correspondence: luczajj@uwgb.edu;...mineralization occurs throughout northeastern Wisconsin, USA, and is recognized as the source of regionally extensive
Report (issue)
..........................................49 Sphalerite ...............................................melanterite, millerite, pyrite, pyrrhotite, smythite, sphalerite, strontianite, sulfur, and wad. These minerals...collection of geodes from Big Walnut Creek, Putnam County; and many quarry operators for granting us permission...Indians knew of and used Wyandotte Cave in Crawford County (4).2 Ball (1941, p. 39) summarized the various...The Indians found that Wyandotte Cave, Crawford County, Ind., contained two desirable products, a jaspery
Book
Mineral Trails Lakes States Wisconsin, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, by June Culp Zeitner $5.95 Gem...Kehr, Dr. Benjamin Moulton, Carol Anderson, Lloyd Brown, Klaus Westphal, Kitty and Marve Starbuck, Stan...new species of fossils have been collected in Illinois, Indiana, and Michigan. Dow Chemical has reported... Michigan and Huron virtually surrounding it. Illinois and Indiana are bordered in part by Lake Michigan...and the Keweenaw peninsula of Michigan. Southern Illinois, southern Indiana and southern Ohio have milder
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
road cut along old IN-37, near Harrodsburg, Monroe County, Indiana. Note the semispherical opening, lower...formations in Kentucky, and the Warsaw Formation in Illinois, Iowa, and Missouri. Geodes occur primarily in...commercial geode mine at St. Francisville, Clark County, Missouri. This specimen appeared on the dust jacket...quartz geode, from a locality near Revere, Clark County, Missouri. Cincinnati Museum Center specimen (No...from Sheffler’s geode mine, near Alexandria, Clark County, Missouri. Fred and Sue Keitel specimen, Terry
Report (issue)
locations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Sphalerite and galena . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Fluorite...showing locations and stratigraphic distribution of sphalerite and galena occurrences . . . . . . . . . . .... . . 33 Examples of surface occurrences of sphalerite, fluorite, and barite . . . 34 Map of Indiana... .23-24 Previously reported occurrences of sphalerite, barite, and fluorite in Indiana . . . . . ..... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .25-26 Sphalerite and galena occurrences in subsurface samples
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
symbol to promote outstanding aspects of their county or state. Many of these Earth science symbols will...from the Crater of Diamonds, Murfreesboro, Pike County, Arkansas; largest diamond 4.95 carats. Matilda...histories of exploitation. 12   ROCKS & MINERALS ILLINOIS State Fossil: Tullimonstrum gregarium, an invertebrate...Green mines), Ozark-Mahoning company, Hardin County, Illinois; 9.6 cm tall. Ross Lillie specimen, Jeff Scovil...Geode, 1967 Figure 4. A Keokuk quartz geode with sphalerite, from the Warsaw Formation, Keokuk, Iowa; 15
Journal (issue)
.................... An Occurrence of Yellow Sphalerite in M ascot, T enn. By Wm. C. M cKinley ........of lliuesto11e. with tiny rleces of pyrite and sphalerite. It '•"'. this pyrite that caused old Jacob Uberrotb... Eventually we reached P tlrii-: Ilill. Oxford County, )1aine, which ,vos in• tended to be our destina...from the many Feldspar workings throughout Oxford County. The writer thinks thot the people of ~faine should...references bearin:r on diamonds in Indiana and Illinois 1 I I 4 In nddition 1\fr. ,vncle has
Report (volume)
Georgia..........Dr. S. W. McCallie, Atlanta. Illinois...........Mr. F. W. DeWolf, Urbana. Indiana..... Bryn Mawr. Rhode Island.... .Prof. Charles W. Brown, Providence. South Carolina.. .Dr. Earle Sloan,...See Bauxite and Hallpysite. Asbestos. Tallapoosa County, with corundum deposits near Dudleyville; not found...commercial quantity or quality. Asphalt. Colbert County, small quantity has been shipped from near Leighton;...following localities: Bibb County, Pratts Ferry; Calhoun County, near Tampa; Clay County, T. 20, Pv. 7 E.; Jefferson
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
GEOLOGY OF ILLINOIS CHRISTOPHER J . SCHUBERTH Illinois State Museum Springfield, Illinois 62706 Pleistocene...SSISSIPPIAN E H MIIncl udes Devonian in Hardin County DEVONIAN Includes Silurian in Douglas, Champaign...in the south. From east to west, at its widest, Illinois extends 220 miles between Danville in the east...better suited for pro­ duction than those of the Illinois cropland. While climate plays an important role... Figure 1: Simplified bedrock geologic map of Illinois (after William and Frye, 1970). The youngest Paleozoic
Book (volume)
Dahlonega Co. and Rabum Co., and  the McDuffie County Belt extending through portions of McDuffie, Warren...Pyrrhotite and some Sphalerite. BALDWIN COUNTY MILLEDGEVILLE, at state farmjasper. BANKS COUNTY COMMERCE, along...along adjoining Co. linerock crystal. BARROW COUNTY WINDER, along rd. to Jefferson and 1½ mi. inside...Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States BARTOW COUNTY AREA, Saltpeter Cave, as floatjasper. CARTERSVILLE:...agate, (banded, various colors), jasper. BIBB COUNTY MACON:  at Holton Quarry, 7½ mi. NWagate;  N
Journal (issue)
but nice copper minerals in the Ladysmith area. Illinois and Kentucky have some of the world’s best fluorite...Part of a geode collected at Brummett Creek, Brown County, Indiana. Continued on Page 3 COLORADO SPRINGS...sulfur-rich carbonate rocks. Galena (lead) and sphalerite (zinc) are non-complex sulfides and are the stable...Midwest from Michigan and Wisconsin through Iowa, Illinois, Ohio, Indiana, and Missouri to Halls Gap, Kentucky...and depositional model is similar to galena and sphalerite—from deep-seated basin rocks to migration along
Book (edition)
mmed at Broken Arrow aud Trout creek, in Sc. Clair county. The strata in this field are more faulted und...prong of Canoe creek, in St. Clair county, to Ha\sop creek, in Bibb county, a distance of 60 miles. Down to...to Helena, in Shelby county, the field has an average width of 5 or 6 miles. Below that point the width...miles being in the latitud" of Blocton, in Bibb county. The south ern end of this field has a greater...Jefferson county; Helena, Montevallo, and Brierfield, Shelby county; and at Blocion. Bibb county. The Warrior
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
barite, celestite, fluorite, marcasite, pyrite, sphalerite, and strontianite are present in small amounts...across; Meshberger Stone, Inc. quarry, Bartholomew County. Richard Russell specimen and photo. Figure 2 (above...cm high; Rensselaer Stone C o . quarry, Jasper County. Vernon Swanson speci­ men; Richard Russell photo...within the state. The localities are listed by county and, for convenience, the approximate dis­ tance...granted before entering the property! Allen County Bartholomew County May Stone and Sand quarry—Ardmore plant—southwest
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
senopyrite in Darien (Fairfield Co.), Levesque, Cross County, Arkansas. The Conn., for over a year. A few weeks...A H O — "This specimen was found in Twin Falls County about 10 miles south of Hagerman, Idaho. These...xls. The calcite xls fl. pale green under L.W. ILLINOIS — "Last fall my husband and I visited a fairly...fairly new limestone quarry in eastern DeKalb County, 111. There were a few small fossils in the limestone...unknown black mineral turned out to be a nice xled sphalerite (chief ore of zinc). I N D I A N A — From Harry
Report (volume)
............................... 105 107 115 Illinois.................................................Oregon Univ. Bull., new ser., vol. 13, No. 3, 1915. Brown, A. P., and Ehrenfeld, Frederick, Minerals of Pennsylvania:...Atlanta. Idaho______.Mr. Robert N. Bell, Boise. Illinois-_____.Mr. F. W. DeWolf, Urbana. USEFUL MINERALS...University, South Bethlehem. Rhode Island__Prof. C. W. Brown, Providence. South Carolina__.Dr. Earle Sloan, Charleston...See Bauxite and Halloysite. Asbestos. Tallapoosa County, with corundum deposits near Dudleyville; not found
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
mostly in small amounts. A bed near Pyriton, Clay County, Ala., was worked for copper. One was mined near...near Stone Hill in the southern part of Cleburne County at what was called Wood's copper mine and also...the bottom layer; in between, a lustrous black sphalerite which I at first thought was enargite because...xls—striated, slightly curved cubes. One group had a big sphalerite xl perched on top, intergrown with the pyrite...across in all my travels. This is in Palm Beach County, Fla., and in Palm Beach. It began to rain about
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Library] at 17:14 19 November 2014 HALLS GAP, LINCOLN COUNTY, KENTUCKY Figure J. Millerite with calcite. This...cut along U.S. Highway 27 near Halls Gap, Lincoln County, Kentucky. II was originally in the collection... malachite, marcasite, paratacamite, quartz, sphalerite, sulfur, violarite, and several unidentified...Hamilton-Warsaw area, Illinois; Brummet Creek, Brown County, and near Bedford, Monroe County, Indiana (Ley 1991);...Halls Gap, Lincoln County, Kentucky (figs. I and 2); St. Louis, St. Louis County, near Troy, and the
Catalog/List
Mina Preciosa Sangue de Cristo ~rly pure dark brown cubic cleavable mass with green streak ...........Fairfield County, Branchville White xlline with cymatolite, good study ... New Mexico Taos County, near Dixon...cerium aluminum silicate California Los Angeles County, Pacoima Canyon Large black tabular crystals in...iron silicate ACTINOLITE California San Bernardino County, Wrightwood Green prismatic crystalline mass ....CROSSITE Sodium iron silicate California San Benito County, Gem mine Compact blue-gray mass with natrolite
Book (volume)
beds, excavations, etc.Selenite roses. BRULE COUNTY AREA: in the Oacoma zone of the Pierre Fm. On Elm...gray Barite rosette up to 5 or 6 inches. CAMPBELL COUNTY MOUND CITY, W to the Missouri R., regional hillsides...gravels, etc.petrified wood, wood opal. CORSON COUNTY LITTLE EAGLE:  area ridges, slopes, stream beds...Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States CUSTER COUNTY AREA: The November Mine, 1.2 mi. SE of the Needles...the Needles Hwy. 5.5 mi. NEScheelite, and deep brown to black crystals of Sphene;  E 6 mi., on French
Book (edition)
Tourist includes 1 SOUTH DAKOTA • MICHIGAN • ILLINOIS • IOWA WISCONSIN • OHIO • KANSAS • NORTH DAKOTA...Geodes .......................... .50 .50 .50 ILLINOIS MISSISSIPPI RIVER BORDER ..... Gems .................................. .52 .52 53 NORTHERN ILLINOIS Minerals .................. . Fossils........... 59 Gems .69 69 69 69 CENTRAL ILLINOIS 70 SOUTHERN ILLINOIS Crystals .................. Fossils...areas. Study all issues for possible help. 9. Get county maps if available, or Geological Survey Quadrangle
Book (volume)
Pyrite, Selenite and Sphalerite. A few alluvial Diamonds have been found. ASHTABULA COUNTY CONNEAUT, area...CLERMONT COUNTY MILFORD, area creek gravels and alluvial deposits, rare⎯Diamond. CLINTON COUNTY WILMINGTON...Todd’s Ford, a mineral deposit⎯Hematite. COSHOCTON COUNTY AREA, townships of Washington, Virginia, Bedford...CUYAHOGA COUNTY CHAGRIN FALLS (on Geauga Co. line), area quarries⎯oilstone. DELAWARE COUNTY DELAWARE...nodules⎯Pyrite (crystals sharply cubic). FRANKLIN COUNTY COLUMBUS, area countywide exposures of blue clay
Book (volume)
Pyrite, Selenite and Sphalerite. A few alluvial Diamonds have been found. ASHTABULA COUNTY CONNEAUT, area...CLERMONT COUNTY MILFORD, area creek gravels and alluvial deposits, rare⎯Diamond. CLINTON COUNTY WILMINGTON...Todd’s Ford, a mineral deposit⎯Hematite. COSHOCTON COUNTY AREA, townships of Washington, Virginia, Bedford...CUYAHOGA COUNTY CHAGRIN FALLS (on Geauga Co. line), area quarries⎯oilstone. DELAWARE COUNTY DELAWARE...nodules⎯Pyrite (crystals sharply cubic). FRANKLIN COUNTY COLUMBUS, area countywide exposures of blue clay
Book (volume)
Illinois ILLINOIS Known as the Prairie State, Illinois exhibits a length of 378 miles and a width of...above sea level. Though well endowed with fossils, Illinois has little to offer gem and mineral collectors...in the Lead-Zinc mining dists. of northwestern Illinois, the glacial drift of the Late Pleistocene Wisconsin...the famed Coal Measures so often mentioned in Illinois geology. These measures constitute the Upper Carboniferous...600 to 800 feet thick in the north. ALEXANDER COUNTY FAYVILLE, area stream gravels⎯agate, jasper, rare
Book (volume)
Illinois ILLINOIS Known as the Prairie State, Illinois exhibits a length of 378 miles and a width of...above sea level. Though well endowed with fossils, Illinois has little to offer gem and mineral collectors...in the Lead-Zinc mining dists. of northwestern Illinois, the glacial drift of the Late Pleistocene Wisconsin...the famed Coal Measures so often mentioned in Illinois geology. These measures constitute the Upper Carboniferous...600 to 800 feet thick in the north. ALEXANDER COUNTY FAYVILLE, area stream gravels⎯agate, jasper, rare
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
pegmatite was mined at Barringer Hill in Llano County in the early 1900s but was flooded by Lake Buchanan...on "The Weeks Pegmatite Mine, Wakefield, Carroll County, New Hampshire" (March/April 1991). i i • I...Blanco Brazoria Brazos Brewster Briscoe Brooks Brown Burleson Burnet Cameron 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28...66, May/June 1991 197 LOCALITIES BY COUNTY Bastrop County KEY mm T * ? — — — — best occurrence..."specimen quality" questionable occurrence Angelina County Lufkin, 1 mile N of Lufkin in railroad cuts, in
 
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