Commodities
PrimaryFluorine-Fluorite
Commodity typeN
Deposit
Deposit sizeN
Ore controlPorosity Of Sedimentary Rock Units
Materials
Ore mineralsFluorite
GangueCalcite
Geology
Host rockLimestone · Sanders Group-Made Up Of Ramp Creek Formation (17-28 Feet Of Cherty Argi Llaceous Limestone), The Harrodsburg Limestone (30 To 120 Feet Of Lt. Brown Coarse Grained Biofragmental Limestone With Shale Partings) And The Salem Limestone (A Grey To Tan, Well Sorted Medium To Coarse Grain Ed Calcarenite With Dolomite). Salem And Harrodsburg Have Best Potenti Al For Ore Deposition (Shaffer, 1981)
StructureCincinnati Arch Trends Nw/Se Thru North-Central Indiana. North Of T His Site., Mt. Carmel Fault-Fluorite Occurrences Form Broad Band Following Fa Ult
Tectonic settingCincinnati Arch Was A Stable Platform Between Subsiding Illinois A Nd Michigan Basins.
AlterationDolomitization And Brecciation
Economic & production
Development statusOccurrence
Identification
Deposit ID10080848
MRDS IDW032230
RegionNA
Data scoreD
Coordinates38.86533, -86.51387
References
SHAFFER, NELSON R., 1981, POSSIBILITY OF MISSISSIPPI VALLEY-TYPE MI NERAL DEPOSITS IN INDIANA, INDIANA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY SPECIAL REPORT 21 , 49 P