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Babb Group Fluorspar Mines

Producer in Crittenden county in Kentucky, United States with commodities Fluorine-Fluorite, Zinc, Lead, Barium-Barite
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  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Materials information
  7. Alteration
  8. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Geologic structures
  11. Ore body information
  12. Controls for ore emplacement
  13. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  14. Mining district
  15. Ownership information
  16. Reserves and resources
  17. Workings at the site
  18. Links to other databases
  19. Bibliographic references
  20. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10069399
MRDS ID W006913
Record type Site
Current site name Babb Group Fluorspar Mines
Alternate or previous names Guill, Kentucky - Babb, Delhi - Babb, Eagle - Babb - Barnes, E. Champion and Gio Taylor Properties Hardin 1955.
Related records 10267275

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -88.23336, 37.2834 (WGS84)
Elevation 145
Relative position 4 KM NORTH OF SALEM, KY.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Livingston(county)

Kentucky(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Salem(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Paducah(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Paducah(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Lower Cumberland(hydrologic unit)

Lower Cumberland(hydrologic accounting unit)

Cumberland(hydrologic subregion)

Ohio(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Kentucky Crittenden
United States Kentucky Livingston

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Fluorine-Fluorite Critical Primary
Zinc Critical Primary
Lead Primary
Barium-Barite Critical Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Fluorite Ore
Galena Ore
Sphalerite Ore
Calcite Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Silicified Wall Rock

Analytical data

Result DRILL CORE SAMPLES RANGED UP TO 98% CAF2, 0.53% SIO2, 0.16 CACO3, 0.48 ZN, 0.30 PB AT THE KENTUCKY-BABB PROPERTY
Result 69% CAF2, 7% SIO2, 21% CACO3, 1% ZN AT BARNES PROPERTY
Result 62% CAF2, 4.7% SIO2, 27% CACO3, 3% ZN AT EAGLE - BABB PROPERTY
Result 28% CAF2, 69% SIO2, 0.68 CACO3 AT GUILL PROPERTY (U.S. BU MINES, 1943 & 1944). SPHALERITE CONCENTRATIONS ARE AS HIGH AS 25% LOCALLY. EAGLE - BABB - BARNES 1971 EXPLORATION PROJECT CORE SAMPLES RAN AS HIGH AS 96.79% CAF2 WITH 0.32% SIO2, 0.43% CACO3, 1.19% ZNS, 0.42% PBS.

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock
    Rock unit name Dikes, Sills And Breccia Bodies
    Rock description Dikes, Sills And Breccia Bodies
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Early Permian
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Early Permian
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Mississippian
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Mississippian
  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Pyroclastic Rock > Volcanic Breccia (Agglomerate)
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Sandstone
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone
    Rock unit name Ste. Genevieve, St. Louis And Other L.S., Shales & S.S
    Rock description Ste. Genevieve, St. Louis And Other L.S., Shales & S.S

Nearby scientific data

(1) -88.23336, 37.2834
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description New Madrio Fault Zone, 38th Parallel Lineament
Type of structure Local
Structure description Commodore Fault System

Ore body information

  • General form LENS
    Width 6.7M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Babb Normal Fault Zone - Main Fault Strikes N 50 Deg E And Is Displaced 228 M. Dip Is 75 - 80 Deg Nw On The Delhi - Babb Property But Is Near Vertical In Many Places At Depth. Maximum Displacement Is 290 M.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Both
Deposit size Medium
Significant No
Discovery year 1899
Year of first production 1899

Mining district

District name Illinois - Kentucky Fluorspar District

Ownership information

  • Type Owner-Operator
    Owner Inland Steel Corp. (Guill Property)
  • Type Owner-Operator
    Owner Pennwalt Corp. (Kentucky - Babb)
  • Type Owner-Operator
    Owner Ozark - Mahoning Co. (Delhi - Babb)
  • Type Owner-Operator
    Owner Cerro - Ffl Group (Eagle - Babb - Barnes)
  • Type Owner-Operator
    Owner Eli H. Brown (E. Champion And Gio Taylor) From Hardin
    First year 1955

Comments on the production information

  • SWANSON AND STARNES 129,600 MET. TONS ESTIMATE BREAKS DOWN AS FOLLOWS: GUILL 36,250; KENTUCKY - BABB 50,750; DELHI - BABB 38,050; EAGLE - BABB 2720; BARNES 1810 MET. TONS CRUDE ORE

Reserves and resources

  • Type In-situ
    Estimate year 1972
    Total resources 900000000mt ore
    Commodity Subtype Grade units Group Importance Year
    Fluorine-Fluorite CaF2 40 wt-pct Fluorine Major 1972

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • EAGLE - BABB - BARNES PROPERTY ONLY. ZNS AND PBS AVERAGE LESS THAN 2% AND 0.5% RESPECTIVELY.

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Unknown
    Overall depth 168M

Comments on the workings information

  • BABB AREA ORE VEIN WIDTHS AVERAGE 1.5 M. GUILL PROPERTY HAS SHAFTS 100 M. DEEP AND DRIFTS UP TO 100 M. LONG. THE KENTUCKY - BABB PROPERTY HAS SHAFTS UP TO 168 M. DEEP AND WORKINGS OVER 400 M. LONG. THE DELHI - BABB WORKINGS ENCOUNTERED VEIN WIDTHS OF 0.3 TO 5 M. AT THE 106 M. LEVEL AND 1 TO 6.7 M. AT THE 122 M. LEVEL. THE 1971 EAGLE - BABB - BARNES DISCOVERY IS A VEIN AVERAGING 3 M. WIDE AND 60 TO 120 M. HIGH OF MINABLE FLUORSPAR.

Comments on development

  • YEAR OF DISCOVERY - (EAGLE - BABB - BARNES, FORMERLY RAYMON BABB MINE), PRE - 1904 (GUILL), PRE - 1905 (MORSE SHAFT LOCATED ON THE KENTUCKY - BABB PROPERTY AND THE TOM BABB PROSPECT ON THE DELHI - BABB PROPERTY) FROM SMITH 1905. SWANSON, 1950 GIVES DATES OF 1904 FOR THE EAGLE - BABB AND BARNES PROPERTIES AND 1910 FOR THE GUILL PROPERTY. HARDIN 1955 P. 29 STATES SOME WORK WAS DONE ON THE GUILL PROPERTY IN 1900. YEAR FIRST PRODUCTION - (EAGLE - BABB - BARNES, FORMERLY RAYMON BABB MINE, PRE - 1904 (GUILLMINE) FROM SMITH, 1905 P. 202. SWANSON, 1950 GIVES 1904 AND 1910 FOR FIRST PRODUCTION AT EAGLE - BABB AND GUILL, RESPECTIVELY AND 1942 AS THE FIRST SIGNIFICANT PRODUCTION YEAR FOR EAGLE - BABB. ALSO 1935 (KENTUCKY - BABB), 1941 (BARNES) AND 1918 (DELHI - BABB). HARDIN, 1955 STATES SOME WORK DONE AT GUILL IN 1900.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    HARDIN, G.C. JR., 1955, BABB FAULT SYSTEM, CRITTENDEN AND LIVINGSTON COUNTIES, IN - FLUORSPAR DEPOSITS IN WESTERN KENTUCKY: USGS BULL. 1012B, P. 7-37

  • Deposit

    SWANSON, A.S., AND STARNES, X.R., 1950, INVESTIGATION OF FLUORITE DEPOSITS OF BABB VEIN SYSTEM, CRITTENDEN AND LIVINGSTON COUNTIES, KY.: U.S. BU MINES REP. INV. 4677

  • Deposit

    MOODIE, F.B., III, AND MC GRAIN P., 1974, THE EAGLE - BABB - BARNES FLUORSPAR PROJECT, CRITTENDON COUNTY, KENTUCKY: KENTUCKY GEOLOGICAL SURVEY SPECIAL PUB. 22 P. 96-107

  • Deposit

    TRACE, R.D., 1974, ILLINOIS - KENTUCKY FLUORSPAR DISTRICT, IN - A SYMPOSIUM ON THE GEOLOGY OF FLUORSPAR: KENTUCKY GEOLOGICAL SURVEY SPECIAL PUB 22, P. 58 - 76

  • Deposit

    1942 GEOLMAP G.C. HARDIN, JR., W.R. THURSTON, ETC

  • Deposit

    1943 DIREXPL U.S. BU MINES; LOCATED ORE

  • Deposit

    1951 GEOLMAP WELLER, STUART, AND SUTTON, A.H.

  • Deposit

    1962 GEOLMAP TRACE R.D.

  • Deposit

    TRACE, R.D., 1962, GEOLOGY OF THE SALEM QUADRANGLE, KENTUCKY: USGS GEOL. QUAD. MAP GQ-206

  • Production

    HARDIN, G.C., JR., 1955, USGS 1012B, P. 8.

  • Reserve-Resource

    MOODIE, F.B. III AND MC GRAIN, P., 1974, EAGLE - BABB - BARNES FLUORSPAR PROJECT

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAY-1975 Schruben, Paul G. U.S. Geological Survey

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