1. Mineral Resources
  2. Online Spatial Data
  3. Mineral Resource Data System (MRDS)

Upper Mississippi Valley Zinc-Lead Region, Illinois Sector

Past Producer in Jo Daviess county in Illinois, United States with commodities Zinc, Lead
Map
XML
JSON
KML
C
Sections on this page
  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Public Land Survey System information
  6. Commodities
  7. Materials information
  8. Nearby scientific data
  9. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  10. Mining district
  11. Links to other databases
  12. Bibliographic references
  13. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10026257
MRDS ID K003364
Record type Site
Current site name Upper Mississippi Valley Zinc-Lead Region, Illinois Sector
Related records 10083267

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -90.41678, 42.45001 (WGS84)
Elevation 256

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Jo Daviess(county)

Illinois(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Galena(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Dubuque South(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Dubuque(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Apple-Plum(hydrologic unit)

Upper Mississippi-Maquoketa-Plum(hydrologic accounting unit)

Upper Mississippi-Maquoketa-Plum(hydrologic subregion)

Upper Mississippi(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Illinois Jo Daviess

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
028N 001E Illinois

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Zinc Critical Primary
Lead Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Galena Ore
Marcasite Ore
Sphalerite Ore
Dolomite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Nearby scientific data

(1) -90.41678, 42.45001
ListMap

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Large
Significant No

Mining district

District name Upper Mississippi Valley Zinc-Lead Region

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    MCKNIGHT, E.T., NEWMAN, W.L., AND HEYL, A.V., JR. (COMPILERS), 1962, ZINC IN THE UNITED STATES, EXCLUSIVE OF ALASKA AND HAWAII: USGS MINERAL INV. RESOURCE MAP MR-19, SEPARATE TEXT, 18 P.

  • Deposit

    HEYL, A.V., LYONS, E.J., AGNEW,A.F., AND BEHRE, C.H., JR., 1955, ZINC-LEAD-COPPER RESOURCES AND GENERAL GEOLOGY OF THE UPPER MISSISSIPPI VALLEY DISTRICT: USGS BULL. 1015-G, P. 227-243.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUL-1975 Wedow, Helmuth U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.

Maps centered on this site