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| The Geology of the Upper Mississippi Valley Zinc-Lead District By ALLEN V. HEYL, Jr., ALLEN F. AGNEW...PROFESSIONAL PAPER 309 Prepared in cooperation with the Wisconsin Geological and Natural Histoyy Survey, the Iowa...Cultural development and facilities related to mining Field work and acknowledgments Scope of the report...geologic work in the district Geology Stratigraphy Precambrian rocks Cambrian system Upper Cambrian series...Platteville formation Decorah formation Galena dolomite Upper Ordovician series Maquoketa shale Silurian system |
 | Brown, Bruce A., Hunt, Thomas C., Johnson, David M., Reid, Daniel D. (2009) The Upper Mississippi Valley lead-zinc district revisited [electronic resource] : mining history, geology, reclamation, and environmental issues thirty years after the last mine closed. Guidebook Series 38. Illinois State Geological Survey | Report (issue) |
| SSI no. 38 The Upper Mississippi Valley Lead-Zinc District Revisited: Mining History, Geology, Reclamation...Environmental Issues Thirty Years after the Last Mine Closed Guidebook for the 2009 Meeting of the...2009 Bruce A. Brown Wisconsin Geological and Natural History Survey, Madison, Wisconsin Thomas C. Hunt...Hunt University of Wisconsin-Platteville David M. Johnson Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources Daniel...Daniel D. Reid Wisconsin Department of Transportation ILUtiOiS GEOLOGICAL SURVEY UBRARY Guidebook |
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| conditions: the Cumberland Plateau, the Appalachian Valley, the Appalachian Mountains, the Piedmont Plain...Dahlonega Co. and Rabum Co., and the McDuffie County Belt extending through portions of McDuffie, Warren...Sphalerite. BALDWIN COUNTY MILLEDGEVILLE, at state farmjasper. BANKS COUNTY COMMERCE, along Hwy. 59...along adjoining Co. linerock 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 floatjasper. CARTERSVILLE: |
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| DEPOSITS Gi.OLOGI C4( SC, • OF THE 119629 UPPER MISSISSIPPI V ALL IgRA RY 13Y 1 I.� I� I A1.1\1-�...production� Lead Zinc � Present production Recent mining act ivitScope of this report � Topography. Relief...Limonite 51 � Melanterite 51 Gangue minerals� 51 � Calcite 51 � Dolomite 51 � Selenite 52 � Barite 52 � Quartz...General relations 72 � Mines in Iowa 72 � Dubuque district 72 History� � Geographic limits 73 � 73 Geologic...76 � Galena district � Waters mine 76 � Little Corporal mine 76 � 77 Weber and Cring mine 77 � Vinegar |
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| ....................................... 102 District of Columbia ............................................................................... Mississippi............................................................................................ Wisconsin.................................................to refer to Geological Survey Bulletin 507, "The mining districts of the western United States," and to...abundant it may have been completely exhausted by mining or quarrying. Deposits of minerals that are widely |
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| Bulletin, vol. 41. New York. American Institute of Mining Engineers: Bulletin, nos. 25-36; Transactions,...series, vols. 27, 28. New Haven, Conn. American Mining Congress: Papers and Addresses, llth Annual Session;... vol. 2, no. 2. Oakland, Cal. California State Mining Bureau: Bulletin, nos. 54-56. San Francisco, Cal...Transactions, vol. 8, pt. 3. Toronto, Ont. Canadian Mining Journal, vol. 30. Toronto and Montreal, Canada...vol. 12, pp. 95-222. Davenport, Iowa. . Delaware County Institute of Science: Proceedings, vol. 4, nos |
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| it helpful to refer to Survey Bulletin 507, "The mining districts of the western United States," and to...exhausted by mining or quarrying. Deposits of minerals of wide distribution, such as quartz and calcite, have...because they occur in sufficient quantity to warrant mining for their usual products but because they furnish...Emmons, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. Mississippi.......Prof. E. N. Lowe, Jackson. Missouri......West Virginia... .Dr. I. C. White, Morgantown. Wisconsin.........Prof. W. 0. Hotchkiss, Madison. Wyoming |
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| instance, a single Spodumene crystal from the Etta Mine near Keystone on the east side of the Mount Rushmore...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...Hounds in the United States CUSTER COUNTY AREA: The November Mine, 1.2 mi. SE of the Needles Eye Tunnel |
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| as Bulletin The author, Mr. School of Mines. district recommend that it be published No. 21. G...geology of the region, the origin of the ores, mining, and milling. an aid to locating new The maps...—Introduction 11 General statement History History of mining History of smelting 11 12 12 14 Topography... 38 Anglesite 38 Barite 38 Calamine 38 Calcite 38 Cerusite Chalcopyrite 38 ' 38 Dolomite...Galena district Vinegar Hill mine Unity mine Marsden-Black Jack mine Northwestern mine Hoosier mine Royal |
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| Figure I: Galena, Treece, Kansas, Tri-State district; specimen 5Vi cm tall; Na tional Museum of Canada...figure 2 (leftI: Galena. Crawford mine, Pirher, Oklahoma, Tri-State district; 6' 2 cm across; Harvard Mineralogical...page): Galena, St. Joseph Lead mine, Viburnum, Missouri, Viburnum Trend district; 6 cm on edge; James Madison...MINERAL AT THE 1989 TUCSON SHOW GALENA from Mississippi Valley-Type Deposits RAYMOND L A S M A M S Department..., an ore mineral of lead, is composed of Mississippi Valley-type (MVT) deposits. So prolific are these |
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| by navigable waters, primarily the Ohio and Mississippi rivers. The highest elevations are the Mounds...Lead-Zinc mining dists. of northwestern Illinois, the glacial drift of the Late Pleistocene Wisconsin glaciation...glaciation, the bluffs and detritus of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers, and in the southern Fluorspar region...Illinois geology. These measures constitute the Upper Carboniferous system of repeated alterations of...600 to 800 feet thick in the north. ALEXANDER COUNTY FAYVILLE, area stream gravels⎯agate, jasper, rare |
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| by navigable waters, primarily the Ohio and Mississippi rivers. The highest elevations are the Mounds...Lead-Zinc mining dists. of northwestern Illinois, the glacial drift of the Late Pleistocene Wisconsin glaciation...glaciation, the bluffs and detritus of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers, and in the southern Fluorspar region...Illinois geology. These measures constitute the Upper Carboniferous system of repeated alterations of...600 to 800 feet thick in the north. ALEXANDER COUNTY FAYVILLE, area stream gravels⎯agate, jasper, rare |
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| SOCIETY OF WISCONSIN EDITED BY JOSEPH SCHAFER SUPERINTENDENT OF THE SOCIETY THE WISCONSIN LEAD REGION...REGION WISCONSIN DOMESDAY BOOK GENERAL STUDIES VOLUME III The Wisconsin Lead Region BY JOSEPH SCHAFER...SOCIETY OF WISCONSIN MADISON, 1932 COPYRIGHT, 1932, BY THE STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF WISCONSIN THE ANTES...EVANSVILLE, WISCONSIN FOREWORD The present volume is the third in the General series of the Wisconsin Domesday...being the author’s Agriculture in Wisconsin, the second his Four Wisconsin Counties, Prairie and Forest. |
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| 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...on the Rhode Island border. Small crystals of calcite and quartz on trap rock have been found in a huge...come from East Haven. One consists of colorless calcite xls associated with deep black smoky quartz xls |
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| with a large mass of native copper in the Quincy mine ca. 1918. (Michigan Technological University Archives...Native copper crystal group, 13.6 cm, from an unknown mine in the Michigan Copper Country. Richard A. Kosnar...(1929) is considered to be the classic for the district. Many of these works are currently out of print...and research will serve as an overview of the district and as a framework from which interested persons...location and associated geology of the mines in the district. Historical and production information is summarized |
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| Geology of the Rewey and Mifflin Quadrangles, Wisconsin OQ a cb 525 « M EH fe O I w GEOLOGICAL ...SURVEY BULLETIN Prepared in cooperation with the Wisconsin Geological and Natural History Survey 1123-F...Quadrangles, Wisconsin By ALFRED R. TAYLOR GEOLOGY OF PARTS OF THE UPPER MISSISSIPPI VALLEY ZINC-LEAD DISTRICT...DISTRICT GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 1123-F Prepared in cooperation with the Wisconsin Geological...-..--- ----------Noncherty upper unit______________________________ Upper Ordovician Series___-_-___ |
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| with the idea of gathering a complete series of mine descriptions to form part of the report. Not until...importance, outstripping all others in the Mississippi valley. Lead mining was begun as much as 170 years ago...prediction was ventured by Prof. Whitney that the lead mining of Missouri was a thing of the past, and that the...explorations have revealed new fields, or improvements in mining or metallurgical processes have made previously...respects are the facts of zinc production. The mining of these ores does not, however, date much more |
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| CENTRAL MINNESOTA INCLUDING THE CUYUNA IRON-ORE DISTRICT BY E. C. HARDER AND A. W. JOHNSTON MINNEAPOLIS... . . . 30 Morrison County .................................. 132 Stearns, Benton, Sherburne, and western... . . . . 49 Todd County ...................................... 49 Morrison, Benton, and Stearns counties...other metamorphic rocks. . . . 58 Morrison and Benton counties....................... 58 Crow Wing, Cass...Cuyuna iron-ore district. ................................. 94-135 Location of the district. . . . . . . |
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| underlying rocks................. .'... i ... Mississippi flood plain................................................................................ Lafayette gravel..........................................and peneplain.................................. Lafayette epoch....................................................................................... Wisconsin epoch...........................................41 42 42 42 43 44 45 45 46 46 46 46 47 48 48 Mississippi trough. .................................... |
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| stumble over a valuable nugget and stake your own mining claim? Indeed it to is, and author book Jay...prospecting, he points out, is in abandoned mining districts, where valuable mineral ores are present...commercial ores and secondary minerals by state, county, township, and geologic range. For easy identification...RANSOM 1875-1948 An to the Eastern '‘Schoolmarm” Mining Camps of the Old West I I a s I \ h K... CONTENTS Preface ix PART I 1 Introduction to Mining and Mineralogy 2 Preparation for Mineral Collecting |
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| deposit. Table 4, part B, gives an alphabetic list of mine and properties followed by the deposit name. CHARACTERISTICS...in these deposits include carbonates (ankerite, calcite, dolomite, and siderite), albite, biotite, and...deposits used in Table 1 may represent a major mine, district name, or local town name or other prominent... Pyrrhotite appears to be been reported in just a single mine in the East Belt of the Sierra Nevada foothills...(Malcolm, 1912), galena was widely considered by mine operators to be correlated with better gold grades |
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| IN THE PRAIRIE DU CHIEN GROUP OF THE WISCONSIN ZINC-LEAD DISTRICT BY THE U. S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY IN 1949-1950...Alien F. Agnew Prepared in cooperation with the Wisconsin Geological and Natural History Survey UNITED...property. .... . . . . 9 Kennedy mine property ..... .9 James mine area ......... 11 Meekers Grove area...main productive area of the Upper Mississippi Valley zinc -lead district and location of areas covered...stratigraphic section of the Upper Mississippi Valley zinc-lead district. . . . .... 3 3. Geologic map |
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| Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Mississippi Missouri Montana Nebraska Nevada New Hampshire...Utah Vermont Virginia Washington West Virginia Wisconsin Wyoming Appendixes 615 I Gemstone and Mineral...included amber (most precious of the ancient gems), calcite, fluorspar, jadeite, pyrite, quartz family minerals...the most ancient of all Egyptian burials, in the Valley of the Royal Tombs at Abydos west of the ancient...of commercial mining is also long, beginning with the Kenya opal mines of 4000 B.C. Mining began with gemstones |
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| Louisiana Maine Maryland Michigan Minnesota Mississippi Missouri Montana Nebraska Nevada New Ham p:;hire... Page Vermont Virginia Washington West Virginia Wisconsin Wyoming 301 311 315 321 325 332 AUTHOR INDEX...1 F/4. 3.JJo"J-- faorgia Department of Mines, Mining, and Geology t/ 19 Hunter St. , S. W. Agriculture... ✓ Mississippi Geological, E5.onomic, and Topographical Survey Box 4915 Jackson iJ Mississippi Missouri...Survey 115 Science Hall, University of Wisconsin Madison 6, Wisconsin 5- ,3 7 c..1 G.:, J ~ological Survey |
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| POSSIBILITY OF MISSISSIPPI VALLEY-TYPE MINERAL DEPOSITS IN INDIANA Special Report 21 State of Indiana...Sales and Records Clerk Possibility of Mississippi Valley-Type Mineral Deposits in Indiana By NELSON...midwestem United States showing areas with Mississippi Valley-type mineral deposits . . . . . . . . . ...Diagrams illustrating recent theory of origin of Mississippi Valley-type ores (A) and possible trapping structures.... . . .42-43 2 3 4 7 Possibility of Mississippi Valley-Type Mineral Deposits in Indiana By NELSON |
