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Sphalerite from
John Mine, Crittenden County, Kentucky, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Sphalerite
Formula:ZnS
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Sphalerite data
Locality Data:Click here to view John Mine, Crittenden County, Kentucky, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:631973
Long-form Identifier:1:3:631973:1
GUID (UUID V4):68c48baf-047d-4fe0-8853-78681ccb6ed1
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Kentucky Kentucky Mineral Mineral Locality Index Downloaded by [Dalhousie University] at 18:01 27 December...Caldwell Stone Company quarry, Danville, Boyle County. Terry Huizing specimen and photo. K entucky...Commonwealth is Black Mountain in the Appalachians (Harlan County) at 4,139 feet. The lowest point is the floor of...quarry near Grand Rivers (Livingston County) in western Kentucky, at 100 feet below sea level. There are...kimberlite in Elliott County in eastern Kentucky and alnöite intrusions in Crittenden and Livingston counties
Report (issue)
Mineral Ridge area Livingston and Crittenden Counties By ROBERT D. TRACE FLUORSPAR DEPOSITS GEOLOGICAL...GEOLOGICAL IN SURVEY WESTERN KENTUCKY BULLETIN 1012-D UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE, WASHINGTON...Livingston and Crittenden Counties, Ky. Geologic map of underground levels in the John Pace shaft. View...opencut northeast of John Pace shaft-..-----.-- facing Index map of western Kentucky showing location of...levels of Green mine...-___--_ in 74 60 63 77 MINERAL RIDGE AREA, LIVINGSTON AND CRITTENDEN COUNTIES By
Journal (issue)
Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A, County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Steven R. Morehead...January-February 1997 Volume Twenty-eight, Number One Hlmois-Kentucky Fluorite District Correspondents Miguel Calvo...Harold and Erica Van Pelt Los Angeles, CA Founder John Sampson White Editing, advertising 4631 Paseo Tubutama...group, 13 cm, w ith calcite from the Minerva No. 1 mine, near Cave in Rock, Illinois. Marvin Rausch collection;...Sterling mine at Antwerp, New York; the Alpine veins near Sherbrooke, Quebec; the Nanisivik mine on Baffin
Report (issue)
Fluorspar Deposits in .» Western Kentucky Part3 Moore Hill fault system, Crittenden and Livingston Counties....Caldwell County. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 1012-E, F Moore Hill Fault System -Crittenden and Livingston...C. HARDIN, JR. FLUORSPAR DEPOSITS IN WESTERN KENTUCKY * GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 1012-E UNITED... FLUORSPAR DEPOSITS IN WESTERN KENTUCKY MOORE HILL FAULT SYSTEM, CRITTENDEN AND LIVINGSTON COUNTIES, KY...Moore Hill fault system in the central part of the Kentucky-Illinois fluorspar field is about 26 miles long
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
MINERALS KENTUCKY DENNIS COSKREN 849 L y n n Drive Lexington, Kentucky 40504 T o those interested in...k y to have calcite and dolomite, galena and sphalerite, barite and celestite. B u t pyrope? A n d paratacamite...familiar w i t h such deposits; Tri-State galena and sphalerite, E l m w o o d calcite, and Rosiclare fluorite...simple. Common minerals include pyrite, galena, sphalerite, and chalcopyrite among the sulfides; and quartz...millerite and honessite and also yields pyrite, sphalerite, galena, and chal­ copyrite. Less well-known
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
zoned fluorite cubes with galena on sphalerite from the HillLedford mine: 11 by 9 by 6 cm: HMM #117417. ...from mines in the Cave in Rock district, Hardin County, Dlinois. Clive Russ, photographer, unless otherwise...Rosiclare mine. John Carlon, photographer. Figure 4: The sign near the front gate of the Rosiclare mine. John...Illinois and across the Ohio River in western Kentucky, fluorite occurs abundantly and has been mined...Andrew Jackson commenced lead mining in Crittenden County, Kentucky, in 1835. Mining in Illinois began seven
Report (volume)
Fluorspar Deposits, Big Four Fault System, Crittenden County, Kentucky GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 1042-S...DEPOSITS OF THE BIG FOUR FAULT SYSTEM, CRITTENDEN COUNTY, KENTUCKY By GEORGE C. HARDIN, JR., and EGBERT...Big Four fault system, near Marion, Ky., in the Kentucky-Illinois fluorspar district, is a complex northeastward-trending...Mining activity started in the area at the LaRue mine in 1874, and as of January 1945 about 35,000 tons...been produced ; most of this was from the Big Four mine. A small quantity of lead and zinc ore also has
Report (issue)
Babb Fault System Crittenden and Livingston Counties By GEORGE C. HARDIN, Jr. FLUORSPAR DEPOSITS IN...IN WESTERN KENTUCKY GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 1012-B A detailed description of the geology and fluorspar... Fluorite__-.___-.'___-._________________ 19 Sphalerite...__._______________________ 20 Galena----_-..._--.__-.------------.-_.---.--..---___.__---. Kentucky-Babb....___________________________________________...fault system, Crittenden and Livingston Counties, Ky. 2. Geologic map of levels in the Kentucky-Babb and Eagle-Babb
Report (issue)
LEAD, ZINC, AND FLUORSPAR DEPOSITS OF WESTERN KENTUCKY BY E. o. and W. S. TANGKLER SMITH WASHINGTON...lead, zinc, and fluorspar deposits of western Kentucky," by E. O. Ulrich and W. S. Tangier Smith, and...cooperative agreement with the State Survey of Kentucky, and a brief summary of the results was published...territory, while attached to the Geological Survey of Kentucky. The field was again visited by Mr. Ulrich in... LEAD, ZINC, AND FLUORSPAR DEPOSITS OF WESTERN KENTUCKY. Part I.-G-EOLOG-Y AND GKENEHAL RELATIONS. By
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...smitbsonite and tarbuttite being the chief ores. Sphalerite, the traditional zinc ore mineral, is practically
Report (issue)
future importance. The Sn-W-Ag deposits in the Silver Mine District are in granite. The Iron Mountain and Pilot...contains Paleozoic sedimentary rocks. The Illinois-Kentucky Fluorspar District is in the southern portion...the following three parts: T147A: The Illinois-Kentucky Fluorspar Mining District, by James W. Baxter...DEPOSITS OF THE MIDCONTINENT AREA The Illinois-Kentucky Fluorspar Mining District Sunday, July 2, 1989...Creek bridge. 13:55 - 14:40 STOP 2, Clay Diggings Mine. 14:40 - 15:15 Continue on Eddyville Road to 11
Journal (issue)
commemorate the recent history of the Illinois-Kentucky fluorspar district. I had wanted to hold this...quartz, Midstate Quarry, Magnet Cove, Hot Spring County, Arkansas. 2 Mineral News The 9th Maine Mineral...fluorite mine, Westmoreland, New Hampshire. The Rocks and Minerals article (Vol. 65) on the mine does not...specimens on display dispelled any doubts. The Wise Mine fluorite and quartz matrix specimens on display...discussed the mining and pocket discoveries at the Berry Mine, in the southern half of the Berry-Havey pegmatite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Library] at 00:11 06 November 2014 Eagle Mine, Cilman, Eagle County, Colorado W orld production of zinc...a single zinc mineral, sphalerite. Fortunately for the collector, sphalerite tends to form well-crystallized...unusually large number of good sphalerite occurrences, the Eagle mine at Gilman holds the record as that...the source of a correspondingly large number of sphalerite specimens. Inasmuch as the minerals of the now-closed...issue’s Connoisseur’s Choice (figs. 1 and 2 ) . Sphalerite is notable for its dodecahedral cleavage, the
Report (issue)
Mineral Resources of the Illinois-Kentucky Mining District GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER 970...970 Mineral Resources of the Illinois-Kentucky Mining District By DARRELL M. PINCKNEY GEOLOGICAL...cadmium, rare earths, and niobium in Illinois and Kentucky UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING UNITED... Darrell M. Mineral resources of the Illinois-Kentucky mining district. (Geological Survey Professional...resources- Illinois. 2. Mines--and mineral resources- Kentucky. I. Title. II. Series: United States Geological
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
(NMNS51066). figure 2 (leftI: Galena. Crawford mine, Pirher, Oklahoma, Tri-State district; 6' 2 cm across;...Figure 3 (opposite page): Galena, St. Joseph Lead mine, Viburnum, Missouri, Viburnum Trend district; 6...proudly displays not only galena crystals but also sphalerite, Jainiuo/February 1989 11 GALENA PROFILE...large Pyra­ mid deposit became known as the X-15 mine). What the above figures do not show is that the...massive sulfide bodies consist­ ing of galena, sphalerite, pyrite, and calcite. In 1965, for example, 364
Book
Le WU aa, Lay nibs 7|| ¥ —& Loe sh Kentucky Geological Survey WILLARD ROUSE JILLSON DIRECTOR...SERIES VoLUME SIX THIRTEEN Fluorspar Deposits of Kentucky 1923 UIA AsuUITyO Iedsanoy ‘ouTUT s9d.IO;...AG *M ‘HY NOSTIIF ~ FLUORSPAR DEPOSITS of KENTUCKY A description and interpretation of the geologic...geologic occurrence and industrial importance of Kentucky F luorspar BY Louts WADE ASSISTANT CURRIER...Copies THE KENTUCKY GEOLOGICAL SURVEY FRANKFoRT, Ky. 1923 Copyrighted 1923 for THE KENTUCKY GEOLOGICAL
Journal (issue)
CRYSTALS FRONT ALASKA, BY CHARLES PALACHR. Presented by JoHN E. WoLFF, January 8, 1902. Received February 7....fluorspar and calcspar in these veins are galena, sphalerite (zinc blende), and now and then a little pyrite...to a half a mile northwest of Rosiclaire, Hardin County, which is on the Ohio River. The actual amount...geological formation extends over into western Kentucky, and in 1898 deposits of fluorspar were discovered...in Kentucky. These deposits are centered around Salem, Livingston county, and Marion, Crittenden county
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
OF THE Harris Creek Fluorspar District Hardin County, Illinois ROSS C . L I L L I E P . O . B o x 46212...attempt at mining was for lead ore in Crittenden County, Kentucky, in 1835 (Bain, 1905), galena was discovered...Annabel Lee Mine. Denton Mine ROCK CREEK GRABEN Ffill-Ledford Mine Minerva No. 1 Mine S.E. Oxford No...No. 11 Mine Mahoning No. 7 Mine Fault Mahoning No. 4 Mine* . „,. 3? Deardorff Mine Mine m West *...Green Crystal Mine 3,000 6,000 I I Scale in Feet North Green Mine E a s t Green Mine CAVE IN ROCK
Journal (issue)
Pakistan.Will Heierman collection. Illinois- Kentucky Fluorspar District Symposium by the Friends of...Alan Goldstein 1607 Washington Blvd. Louisville, Kentucky 40242-3539 deepskyspy@insightbb.com The symposium...1998 symposium on the closing of the Illinois-Kentucky fluorspar district that I organized at Indiana...contact with Bill Frazer, the owner of several Kentucky mines and on the board of the Clement Mineral...kyanite. scapolite, brucite, tremolite. talc, and sphalerite (Table 1; Smith et al., 1997). At Mong H!.u,
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
also present. "Specimen comes from a mine somewhere in Yuma County, Arizona."—on label. ARKANSAS—In the...of Diamonds is an abandoned diamond mine (the only diamond mine in the U.S.) that has been opened up...(west of the city). That would be in Jefferson County."—letter dated—June 31, 1956, from Marie Kennedy...of a fish. Nokomis, in the S.W. part of Sarasota County, is on the Gulf of Mexico. GEORGIA—The following...between Canton and Ball Ground (both in Cherokee County, Ga.). It is 2 cm. across, dark red apparently
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
miles long extending from Coosa County thru Talladega and into Calhoun County. Most of the distance it is...Arizona kaersutite comes from Hoover Dam, Mohave County. A % inch black cube of limonite pseudo after pyrite...following letter dated May 15, 1954, comes from John O. Griesbach, 3400-13th St. S. E., Washington 20...trip on Sat. March 6th, to the old Daulton copper mine in the lower foothills of Madera Co. on a search...them (not many contain the chlorite) at an old gold mine at Shingle Springs (El Dorado Co.), Calif. ROCKS
Report (issue)
NATURAL RESOURCES AND CONSERVATION M. Edson S. William John W. William F. Walsh, Chairman Bastin, Geology...Fluorite 25 Calcite 25 Quartz Galena 25 26 Sphalerite 27 Pyrite 29 Chalcopyrite 30 Barite 30...Oil and bitumen —Origin Chapter IV Chapter V—Mine 64 of the fluorspar deposits 67 data, vein deposits...Reserves and production Hillside 71 72 vein Mine workings Vein walls and included fragments 73 ...Blue Diggings vein . . . . 75 76 76 in Daisy mine 77 Argo Vein 77 Daisy vein Production 78 Dimmick
Report (issue)
Stratigraphy and Structure of the Western Kentucky Fluorspar District GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL...Surrey Stratigraphy and Structure of the Western Kentucky Fluorspar District 53? Robert D. Trace and Dewey...PROFESSIONAL OF KENTUCKY PAPER 1151-D Prepared in cooperation with the Kentucky Geological Survey...of the western Kentucky fluorspar district. (Contributions to the geology of Kentucky) (Geological Survey...Pennsylvanian. 3. Geology Kentucky. I. Amos, Dewey Harold, 1925- joint author. II. Kentucky. Geological Survey
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
MINERAL A. V. HEYL, FROM THE UPPER THE ILLINOIS-KENTUCKY, VALLEY DISTRICTS M. H. DELEVAUX, • R. E....district ........................... Illinois-Kentucky fluorite district ..............................DISTRICTS I UpperMississippi Valley lI Illinois--Kentucky IX X XI EasternTennessee--Austinville, Virginia...wherepresent,tendsto be more concentrated in sphalerite than galena. Iron sulfidesare commonto abundant...all thesedistricts. (2) The Illinois-Kentucky,Central Kentucky, and Central Tennessee districts(Fig
Report (issue)
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. A sbestos ore Lead ore, Balmat mine, N . Y. Chromite-chromium ore, Washington Zinc ore...not yet discovered or not currently profitable to mine. The mining of mineral deposits, once they are discovered...Illinois-Kentucky ............................................................... . Illinois-Kentucky fluorspar...Central Kentucky ........................................................ . Cumberland River, Kentucky ........................................ . Cheshire County-Westmoreland, New Hampshire .... . North Chatham
 
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