Rose Creek Fluorspar Mines

Producer in Hardin county in Illinois, United States with commodities Fluorine-Fluorite, Lead, Zinc
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. 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. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10069406
MRDS ID W006923
Record type Site
Current site name Rose Creek Fluorspar Mines
Alternate or previous names Conley and Smee Shafts Weller '52

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -88.40782, 37.57424 (WGS84)
Elevation 120
Relative position 2.5 KM ESE OF HEROD (TOWN)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Hardin(county)

Illinois(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Herod(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

West Frankfort(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Paducah(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Lower Ohio-Bay(hydrologic unit)

Lower Ohio(hydrologic accounting unit)

Lower Ohio(hydrologic subregion)

Ohio(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Shawnee National Forest(National Forest)

National Forest FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Illinois Hardin

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
011S 007E 11 Illinois

Comments on the location information

  • LAT. AND LONG. ARE FOR YINGLING SHAFT.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Fluorine-Fluorite Critical Primary
Lead Primary
Zinc Critical Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Fluorite Ore
Galena Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock
    Rock unit name Mafic Dikes And Breccia Bodies
    Rock description Mafic Dikes And Breccia Bodies
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Early Permian
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Mississippian
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Mississippian
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Early Permian
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone
    Rock unit name Limestone
    Rock description Limestone

Nearby scientific data

(1) -88.40782, 37.57424

Economic information

Geologic structures

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

Ore body information

  • General form LINEAR
    Strike N 55 DEG E
    Dip 80 DEG SE

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Ne Trending Fault, Downthrown Side Se, Displacement Between 15 And 150 M.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Both
Significant No

Mining district

District name Illinois - Kentucky Fluorspar District, Hicks Dome Group

Ownership information

  • Type Owner-Operator
    Owner Yingling Mining Co.

Comments on the workings information

  • AVERAGE VEIN WIDTH IS 1.2 M. AND SHAFTS ARE 47 AND 90 M. DEEP (WELLER 1952).

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    BAXTER, J. W., DESBOROUGH, G. A. AND SHAW, C. W., 1967, AREAL GEOLOGY OF THE ILLINOIS FLUORSPAR DISTRICT, PART 3: ILL. STATE GEOL. SURV. CIRC. 413, 41 P.

  • Deposit

    WELLER, J. M., GROGAN, R. M., AND TIPPIE, F. E., 1952, GEOLOGY OF THE FLUORSPAR DEPOSITS OF ILLINOIS: ILL. STATE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULL. 76, 147 P.

  • Deposit

    1942 GEOLMAP ILL. STATE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY, J. M. WELLER

  • Deposit

    MC GINNIS, L. D. AND BRADBURY, J. C., 1964, AEROMAGNETIC STUDY OF THE HARDIN COUNTY AREA, ILLINOIS: ILL. STATE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY CIRC. 363, 12 P.

  • Deposit

    1961 GEOLMAP ILL. STATE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY, G. A. DESBOROUGH

  • Deposit

    1964 GEOPHYS ILL. STATE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY; AEROMAG. SURVEY

Reporter information

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

Beyond USGS

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