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Fluorite in Mississippi Valley–type Downloaded by ["Queen's University Libraries, Kingston"] at 08:16...Heights mine, North vein, near Eastgate, Weardale, County Durham, England. This transparent, dark green twinned...specimen is 5.5 × 4.5 × 3.5 cm and was recovered in July 1977 by British collector Richard Barstow. Jesse...The specimen is 3.5 × 4 × 4 cm and was recovered in 1970. Jesse Fisher and Joan Kureczka specimen, Jesse...level, Denton mine, Harris Creek district, Hardin County, Illinois. The specimen is 8.5 × 7.5 × 7 cm |
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MINERALS OF THE Harris Creek Fluorspar District Hardin County, Illinois ROSS C . L I L L I E P . O . B o x...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...to new orebodies recently discovered in the Harris Creek district (figure 1). History The earliest known...located on the southwest end of the Cave in Rock district. On an excursion in 1821, he revisited the same area |
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mine: 11 by 9 by 6 cm: HMM #117417. Southern Illinois, as amply demonstrated by the Bannister Collection...All specimens are from mines in the Cave in Rock district, Hardin County, Dlinois. Clive Russ, photographer...m i n e J o h n Fluorite and southern Illinois have become syn onymous for the mineral connoisseur...collectors because it occurs in a wide range of colors and crystal forms—often in strikingly beautiful associa...tions with other minerals. In southern Illinois and across the Ohio River in western Kentucky, fluorite |
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Sphalerite and calcite, 5 cm across, Denton mine, Hardin County. Ross Lillie specimen. +!.+!+%% 34!2+ +./8...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:...he bedrock under Illinois is predominantly composed of Paleozoic sedimentary rocks. In the southern portion |
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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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Auburn, Alabama 36849-5305 cookrob@auburn.edu Witherite Downloaded by [University of Otago] at 12:49 23...relatively abundant and widely distributed element in the Earth’s crust, barium is a major component of...uranocircite, brewsterite, celsian, and witherite. Of these, witherite is by far the most widespread and is...is usually available to collectors in good specimens from several interesting localities including historical...British occurrences and the Illinois-Kentucky fluorite district. A fine witherite from Fallowfield, Northumberland |
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MISSISSIPPI WAYNE OF FLUID DISTRICT, INCLUSIONS, CAVE-IN-ROCK ILLINOIS, AND UPPER VALLEY E. HALL ... ZINC-LEAD AND IRVING DISTRICT • FRIEDMAN CONTENTS PAGE Abstract ................................................................. Cave-in-Rock fluorite district 890 .............................................................. 909 Cave-in-Rock district ..........................................concentration of primaryfluid inclusions in ore and ganguemineralsfrom the Cave-in-Rockand Upper MississippiValley |
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Fluorine concentrations of ore fluids in the Illinois-Kentucky district: Evidence from SEM-EDS analysis of...org/10.1016/j.gca.2017.04.016 GCA 10241 To appear in: Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta Received Date:...Fluorine concentrations of ore fluids in the IllinoisKentucky district: Evidence from SEM-EDS analysis of...review of the resulting proof before it is published in its final form. Please note that during the production... Fluorine concentrations of ore fluids in the Illinois-Kentucky district: Evidence from SEM-EDS analysis of |
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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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different perspectives. Some think of the Midwest in terms of geography—as an area where rivers (the Mississippi...dipping sedimentary rocks, Paleozoic through Tertiary in age, which host a suite of a dozen or so common minerals...implication then is that there will be no rarities in the Midwest or that any mineral species found beyond...beyond that suite could be considered rare. In addition, a significant portion of this bedrock geology...eight states (Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, Illinois, Wisconsin, Missouri, and Iowa); the Midwest Federation |
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prettier crystallized minerals of the district, is thought to form in this way, as may some or all of the...calcium-barium carbonate from the Minerva mine at Cave in Rock fluoresces yellowish white under long wave...long-wave ultraviolet radiation.) Barite Cave in Rock in Hardin County has provided outstand ingly attractive...Minerals of Southern Illinois Benstonite, another rare mineral, is found at a fluorite mine in Elizabethtown...groups of calcite that fluoresce and phosphoresce in shades of white under long- and short-wave ultraviolet |
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Regional Structure of the Southeast Missouri and Illinois-Kentucky Mineral Districts GEOLOGICAL SURVEY... Regional Structure of the Southeast Missouri and Illinois-Kentucky Mineral Districts By A. V. HEYL, M. R...study of the principal geologic structures and mines in and between two major mineral-producing districts...Southeast Missouri district-____________________________________ Illinois-Kentucky district,.____________...mineral district__________-_____________-_____ Illinois-Kentucky mineral district____-_______-_-__--_--___--_--__ |
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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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GEOLOGY OF THE FLUORSPAR DEPOSITS OF . ILLINOIS BY J. IA.R\' IN \YELLER, ROBERT M. GROGAN, AND FRANK...PRINTED BY AUTHORITY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS URBANA, ILLINOIS 1 9 52 MANUSCRIPT COMPLETED FEBRUARY...FEBRUARY 1951 ORGANIZATION STATE OF ILLINOIS HON. ADLAI E. STEVENSON, Governor DEPART 1ENT OF REGISTRATION...he University of Illinois DEL YTE W. MORRIS, PH.D., President of Southern Illinois University GEOLOGICAL...EDUCATIONAL EXTENSION GILBERT 0 . RAASCH, PH.D., Geologist in Charge MARGARET HAYES, B .S., Research Assistant |
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Drive Lexington, Kentucky 40504 T o those interested in minerals, the state of K e n t u c k y gen erally...t u c k y . Some localities are covered in other articles in this issue; those I will pass over lightly...well-known mineral localities o f K e n t u c k y are in mineralized limestones and dolomites and are related...deposits share certain char acteristics. The host rock is a carbonate (limestone or dolo mite); there...concentration of sulfur can be deposited as sulfates in a fracture system as the pressure and temperature |
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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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Evolution of the Fluids in the Cave-in-Rock FluorsparDistrict, Illinois: Mineralogy, Paragenesis,and...the Deardorffand Hill minesin the Cave-in-Rockfluorspardistrict,Illinois. Fluid inclusion homogenization...for mostof the sequenceand between 115ø and 120øC in the outermostband. The salinity of the fluidsrangedbetween18...linityfor mostof the mineralizingperiod.The drop in temperatureand salinityin the final stagesof dep...example,Bastin,1931; Weller et THE Cave-in-Rock fluorspar district, located in al., 1952; GroganandBradbury |
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Norman Lenz President, Years 2004-2005 F ellow HGMS Rock Kickers, The New Year’s activities at the club...is the roof replacement. Our contractor has been in the hospital for over three weeks at the time of...this. We plan to replace the stained ceiling tiles in the clubhouse as soon as the roof replacement project...supervision of HGMS Shop usage. Neal Immega will work in his preferred role as “shop elf” maintaining and...scheduled for the January and February General Meetings. In January, Norm and Susan Lenz will give us a guided |
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Diagenetic Features Their Role in the Interpretation of the Southern Illinois Fluorspar Deposits WoN C. PaRK...fluorite and sphalerite occur in the Cave-In-Rock fluorite district, Illinois in the upper part of the Mississippian...System; in the upper parts of the Fredonia and Joppa Members of the Ste. Genevieve Formation and in the upper...mechanically filled from above into an open crack formed in the hydroplastic carbonate mud below. A number of...During the compaction, carbonate beds were reduced in thickness by at least 37°/o through stylolitization |
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Mississippi Valley-Type Mineralization in the Illinois-Kentucky District Michael A. Pelch,1,* Martin S. Appold...Mississippi Valley-type (MVT) ores in the Illinois-Kentucky district were analyzed using microthermometry...composition and temperature of mineralizing fluids in order to seek insights into the process of ore formation...meteoric fluid. Fluid inclusions in the Illinois-Kentucky district have overall higher atomic ratios...lower atomic ratios of Mg/Na compared to inclusions in the Ozark MVT districts and are thus compositionally |
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288-3½)6 AdditionalFluid InclusionData for the Illinois-KentuckyFluorsparDistrict' Evidencefor the Lack...replacement,vein, and breccia-hosted depositsin the Illinois-Kentuckyfluorspardistrict. Paragenetic relationships...Thvaluesof primary,organicliquid-vaporinclusions in the Minervabeddedreplacementdepositrangefrom 88.5øto...HicksDome (155.5ø-168.4øC).Salinitiesof primaryinclusions in fluoritefrombeddedreplacement(prepurple7 band),vein...generalagreementwith thosereportedpreviouslyfrom the district. Salinity-Threlationships for the AnnabelLee, |
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Witherite BaCO3 c 2001-2005 Mineral Data Publishing, version 1 Crystal Data: Orthorhombic. Point Group:...pale yellow, pale brown, or pale green; colorless in transmitted light. Streak: White. Luster: Vitreous... Aragonite group. Occurrence: Usually in minor amounts in low-temperature hydrothermal veins, typically...supplied by volcanic hot-spring activity; uncommon in coal measures. Association: Barite, fluorite, calcite...Distribution: Only a few localities are given here; in England, from Alston Moor, Cumbria; fine crystals |
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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 |
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calcite, Minerva No. 1 Mine, Cave in Rock district, Har din County, Illinois. Harvard Mineralogical Museum...Quartz and chalcopyrite, Bandora mine, San Juan County, Col orado. Barbara and John Muntyan specimen...November-December: Gold, Jamestown, Tuolumne County, California. California State Mining and Mineral Exhibit specimen;...Index, A . E . Smith, Jr., 104 Articles on Illinois Published in Rocks & Minerals: An Annotated Bibliography...Minerals of Illinois: An Overview, 194 Behnke, D., and E . Behnke, Articles on Illinois Published in Rocks |
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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 |
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