Mineral Evolution Database

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The goal of this page is to present localities at which the mineral is found, and estimates of the oldest possible geologic age of the minerals at these localities.

Locality Name:
Cave-in-Rock Sub-District, Hardin Co., Illinois, USA

mindat Locality ID: 14605
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-14605.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Cave-in-Rock Sub-District, Hardin Co., Illinois, USA": 47
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 40

Number of Child Localities: 10
Child Localities:
Benzon Mine
Cave-in-Rock
Heavy Media Mill Site
Hill Mine
Ida-Oxford Mine
Lead Hill
Palmer Mine
Pittsburgh Fluorspar Products Company
S.E. Oxford No. 11 Mine
Spar Mountain (Iron Mountain)

Latitude: 37°30'50"N
Longitude: 88°11'54"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 37.513888888889,-88.198333333333

A	This mineral is Anthropogenic.
G	This mineral is directly dated.
B	This mineral is reported as having this age.
Y	This mineral is using an age reported as an element mineralization period.
O	This mineral is using an age calculated from all data at the locality.
R	The age displayed for this mineral originates from a different, non-child locality.
P	The age displayed for this mineral is the range of ages for this mineral at all of this locality's children.
	This mineral's age has not yet been recorded.

Alstonite	Apatite	Aragonite	Baryte	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Clay	Diaspore	Epsomite	Fluorite
Gypsum	Kaolinite	Malachite	Marcasite	None	Not in a structural group	Paralstonite	Pyrite	Quartz	Rocksalt
Sphalerite	Sulphur	Wurtzite

Alstonite ()*	Anglesite ()*	Ankerite ()*	Aragonite ()*	Azurite ()*
Baryte ()*	Barytocalcite ()*	Benstonite ()*	Calcite ()*	Celestine ()*
Cerussite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Cuprite ()*	Dolomite ()*	Epsomite ()*
Fluorite ()*	Galena ()*	Goethite ()*	Greenockite ()*	Gypsum ()*
Hemimorphite ()*	Hydrozincite ()*	Kaolinite ()*	Malachite ()*	Marcasite ()*
Paralstonite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Pyromorphite ()*	Quartz ()*	Smithsonite ()*
Sphalerite ()*	Strontianite ()*	Sulphur ()*	Vaesite ()*	Witherite ()*

This Mineral list contains entries from this locality, including sub-localities. Minerals in bold are reported by mindat.org as occurring directly at this locality, and do not occur at any children (sublocalities) of this locality.

Elements at this locality, including sub-localities: Al Ba C Ca Cd Cl Cu F Fe H Mg Ni O P Pb S Si Sr Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Alstonite Apatite Aragonite Baryte Calcite Chalcopyrite Clay Diaspore Epsomite Fluorite
Gypsum Kaolinite Malachite Marcasite None Not in a structural group Paralstonite Pyrite Quartz Rocksalt
Sphalerite Sulphur Wurtzite

35 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Alstonite ()*	Alstonite	BaCa(CO₃)₂	1	212592	24
Anglesite ()*	Baryte	Pb(SO₄)	4	212583,212592,212599,212601	2734
Ankerite ()*	None	Ca(Fe²⁺,Mg)(CO₃)₂	1	212583	3092
Aragonite ()*	Aragonite	Ca(CO₃)	2	212583,212599	3250
Azurite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₃(CO₃)₂(OH)₂	5	212583,212590,212592,212601,212606	5509
Baryte ()*	Baryte	Ba(SO₄)	17	212583,212586,212592,212595,212597,212599,212601,212604,212606,212607,212613,212618,212620,212621,212622,212623,212626	11547
Barytocalcite ()*	None	BaCa(CO₃)₂	1	212592	83
Benstonite ()*	None	Ba₆Ca₆Mg(CO₃)₁₃	2	212583,212592	17
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	22	212583,212585,212586,212587,212588,212592,212597,212599,212601,212604,212606,212608,212610,212611,212613,212617,212618,212620,212621,212622,212623,212626	27770
Celestine ()*	Baryte	Sr(SO₄)	3	212583,212592,212604	1252
Cerussite ()*	Aragonite	Pb(CO₃)	4	212583,212601,212613,212626	4979
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	10	212583,212591,212592,212599,212601,212604,212606,212622,212623,212625	27198
Cuprite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₂O	1	212583	2970
Dolomite ()*	None	CaMg(CO₃)₂	3	212583,212592,212599	9895
Epsomite ()*	Epsomite	Mg(SO₄)·7H₂O	2	212583,212604	484
Fluorite ()*	Fluorite	CaF₂	41	212582,212583,212584,212585,212586,212587,212588,212590,212591,212592,212593,212595,212596,212597,212598,212599,212600,212601,212602,212603,212604,212605,212606,212607,212608,212610,212611,212612,212613,212614,212616,212617,212618,212620,212621,212622,212623,212624,212625,212626,212628	9617
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	21	212583,212586,212588,212592,212599,212600,212601,212602,212603,212604,212606,212608,212610,212611,212612,212613,212617,212621,212622,212623,212626	24243
Goethite ()*	Diaspore	FeO(OH)	3	212583,212622,212623	7437
Greenockite ()*	Wurtzite	CdS	1	212583	717
Gypsum ()*	Gypsum	Ca(SO₄)·2H₂O	5	212583,212592,212599,212618,212622	6890
Hemimorphite ()*	Not in a structural group	Zn₄(Si₂O₇)(OH)₂·H₂O	2	212583,212592	1689
Hydrozincite ()*	None	Zn₅(CO₃)₂(OH)₆	1	212583	1066
Kaolinite ()*	Clay Kaolinite	Al₂Si₂O₅(OH)₄	1	212583	5591
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	8	212583,212590,212592,212604,212613,212618,212622,212623	12537
Marcasite ()*	Marcasite	FeS₂	1	212583	5674
Paralstonite ()*	Paralstonite	BaCa(CO₃)₂	2	212583,212592	7
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	2	212583,212599	39462
Pyromorphite ()*	Apatite	Pb₅(PO₄)₃Cl	3	212583,212601,212623	1725
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	16	212583,212585,212586,212588,212592,212599,212601,212604,212606,212607,212610,212613,212614,212621,212626,212627	61156
Smithsonite ()*	Calcite	Zn(CO₃)	9	212583,212590,212601,212604,212612,212613,212618,212623,212626	2473
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	17	212583,212586,212588,212592,212597,212599,212600,212601,212603,212604,212606,212607,212608,212613,212617,212623,212626	21482
Strontianite ()*	Aragonite	Sr(CO₃)	4	212583,212591,212592,212597	589
Sulphur ()*	Sulphur	S	3	212583,212587,212604	2045
Vaesite ()*	Pyrite	NiS₂	2	212583,212599	106
Witherite ()*	Aragonite	Ba(CO₃)	6	212583,212590,212591,212592,212593,212597	251

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL
R040040	Cave-in-Rock, Cave-in-Rock Sub-District, Hardin Co., Illinois, USA	https://rruff.info/R040040

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