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Locality Name:
Hardin Co., Illinois, USA

Oldest recorded age at locality: 282
Youngest recorded age at locality: 239

mindat Locality ID: 14606
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-14606.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Hardin Co., Illinois, USA": 181
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 164

Number of Child Localities: 89
Child Localities:
Basal Springville Shale Outcrop Prospect
Bean Quarry
Bethel Sandstone Exposure 2 Prospect
Black Spar Mine
Carnett Prospect
Cave-in-Rock Sub-District
Clement (Clement-Dyspeck)
Cook Mine
Cooper
Core Drills (MRDS - 10082966)
Cullum
Cullum No. 4 (Fluorspar Number 4)
D. C. Baker Mine
Denny & Simpson Stone Quarry (Denny & Simpson Stone Company Quarry; Hardin County Materials Plant; Cave In The Rock Quarry)
Diamond
Dutton Prospect
Eichorn
Eureka Fluorspar Mine (Eureka Nos. 1 And 2; Old Eureka Shaft; Cowsert Shaft)
Extension (Annex)
Fluorine Occurrence No. 1
Fort Payne Formation Limestone
Fowler Prospect
Frailey Workings
Frayser Mine
Gintert Mine
Golconda Portland Cement Company Quarry
Goose Creek Sub-District
Hamp Fluorspar Mine Group
Hardin County Highway Department Pit
Harris Creek Sub-District
Hicks
Hobbs Prospect
Humm Mines Shaft No. 1
Hunton Limestone Exposure Prospect
Interstate Sub-District
J. Love Prospect
Jackson Mine
Jarrells Prospect
Jefferson And Humm Fluorspar Mines (Jefferson No. 1 And 2 Shafts)
Jefferson Mine
Johnson Works
Joyce Prospect
Karbers Ridge
Knight Mine
Knox Fluorite Mine
Lacey Mine
Lafarge Cave-in-Rock Quarry (Cave In Rock Quarry; Cave-In-Rock Quarry)
Lavender Mine
Limestone Prospect (MRDS - 10193701)
Limestone Prospect (MRDS - 10217668)
McClusky Prospect
McGuire Prospect
McKernan Property
Montgomery Prospect
New Albany Shale Exposure Prospect
Nick Hamp Mine
No. 4 Shaft - Good Hope Fault
Oxford And Watson Mine
Oxford Pits
Peckerwood Prospect
Rahn - Crystal Prospect
Renfro Prospect
Rigsby & Barnard Quarry & Mill (Hardin County Materials Plant)
Rogers Mine (Underwood Property)
Rose Creek Fluorspar Mine
Rosiclare District
Seinor Prospect No. 1
Seinor Prospect No. 2
Seinor Prospect No. 3
Shelby Prospect
Sheldon Mine
Shelterville No. 1 Mine
Shetlerville
Simmons Mine
Southern Illinois Limestone Company Quarry
Sparks Hill Diatreme
Springville Shale Exposure Prospect
Stewart Mine No. 2
Stewart Mine No. 3
Tamora Mining Company Mine
Tanner Prospect
Tems Prospect
Wall Mine No. 2
Weidman Prospect
Williams Prospect
Williams Quarry (William Beecher Stone Company; Hardin County Materials Plant)
Yingling Fluorite Mine
Zinc Prospect No. 1
Zinc Prospect No. 2

Latitude: 37°30'8"N
Longitude: 88°20'45"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 37.502222222222,-88.345833333333

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	Copper	Diaspore	Epsomite
Fluorite	Gypsum	Kaolinite	Malachite	Marcasite	None	Not in a structural group	Paralstonite	Pyrite	Pyroxene
Quartz	Rhabdophane	Rocksalt	Sphalerite	Stibnite	Sulphur	Wurtzite

Aegirine ()*	Aegirine-augite ()*	Alstonite ()*	Anglesite ()*	Ankerite ()*
Aragonite ()*	Azurite ()*	Baryte ()*	Barytocalcite ()*	Benstonite ()*
Bertrandite ()*	Brockite ()*	Calcite ()*	Celestine ()*	Cerussite ()*
Chalcopyrite ()*	Copper ()*	Cuprite ()*	Dolomite ()*	Epsomite ()*
Fluorite ()*	Galena ()*	Goethite ()*	Greenockite ()*	Gypsum ()*
Hemimorphite ()*	Hydrozincite ()*	Jamesonite ()*	Kaolinite ()*	Malachite ()*
Marcasite ()*	Paralstonite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Pyromorphite ()*	Quartz ()*
Silver ()*	Smithsonite ()*	Sphalerite ()*	Stibnite ()*	Strontianite ()*
Sulphur ()*	Synchysite-(Ce) ()*	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: Ag Al Ba Be C Ca Cd Ce Cl Cu F Fe H Mg Na Ni O P Pb S Sb Si Sr Th Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Ag

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

44 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	Max Age (Ma)	Min Age (Ma)	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Aegirine ()*	Pyroxene	NaFe³⁺Si₂O₆	282	239	1	212661	1022
Aegirine-augite ()*	Pyroxene	(Ca,Na)(Fe³⁺,Mg,Fe²⁺)Si₂O₆	282	239	1	212661	286
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)	282	239	27	212583,212586,212592,212595,212597,212599,212601,212604,212606,212607,212613,212618,212620,212621,212622,212623,212626,212657,212658,212664,212693,212715,212718,212719,212727,212730,212740	11547
Barytocalcite ()*	None	BaCa(CO₃)₂			1	212592	83
Benstonite ()*	None	Ba₆Ca₆Mg(CO₃)₁₃			2	212583,212592	17
Bertrandite ()*	Not in a structural group	Be₄Si₂O₇(OH)₂	282	239	1	212664	606
Brockite ()*	Rhabdophane	(Ca,Th,Ce)(PO₄)·H₂O	282	239	1	212664	48
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	282	239	58	212579,212583,212585,212586,212587,212588,212592,212597,212599,212601,212604,212606,212608,212610,212611,212613,212617,212618,212620,212621,212622,212623,212626,212629,212630,212640,212653,212657,212658,212662,212664,212675,212678,212679,212680,212682,212690,212693,212701,212711,212715,212716,212717,212718,212719,212720,212722,212723,212724,212725,212726,212727,212728,212730,212738,212740,212745,212746	27770
Celestine ()*	Baryte	Sr(SO₄)			4	212583,212592,212604,212657	1252
Cerussite ()*	Aragonite	Pb(CO₃)			5	212583,212601,212613,212626,212718	4979
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂			19	212583,212591,212592,212599,212601,212604,212606,212622,212623,212625,212657,212658,212665,212678,212715,212717,212718,212727,212730	27198
Copper ()*	Copper	Cu			1	212730	3846
Cuprite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₂O			1	212583	2970
Dolomite ()*	None	CaMg(CO₃)₂	282	239	5	212583,212592,212599,212657,212661	9895
Epsomite ()*	Epsomite	Mg(SO₄)·7H₂O			2	212583,212604	484
Fluorite ()*	Fluorite	CaF₂	282	239	131	212579,212580,212582,212583,212584,212585,212586,212587,212588,212590,212591,212592,212593,212595,212596,212597,212598,212599,212600,212601,212602,212603,212604,212605,212606,212607,212608,212610,212611,212612,212613,212614,212616,212617,212618,212620,212621,212622,212623,212624,212625,212626,212628,212629,212630,212631,212632,212633,212634,212635,212637,212638,212640,212641,212642,212644,212645,212646,212647,212650,212652,212653,212654,212657,212658,212662,212663,212664,212665,212666,212668,212671,212672,212673,212674,212675,212676,212677,212678,212679,212680,212681,212682,212683,212685,212687,212688,212690,212692,212693,212694,212695,212697,212703,212705,212707,212708,212709,212711,212713,212714,212715,212716,212717,212718,212719,212720,212722,212723,212724,212725,212726,212727,212728,212729,212730,212732,212733,212734,212735,212738,212739,212740,212741,212745,212746,212748,212749,212750,212751,212752	9617
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	282	239	63	212579,212583,212586,212588,212592,212599,212600,212601,212602,212603,212604,212606,212608,212610,212611,212612,212613,212617,212621,212622,212623,212626,212640,212645,212652,212657,212658,212662,212664,212668,212672,212675,212677,212678,212679,212681,212687,212688,212692,212694,212705,212707,212714,212715,212717,212718,212719,212720,212722,212723,212724,212725,212726,212727,212729,212730,212735,212739,212745,212746,212748,212749,212751	24243
Goethite ()*	Diaspore	FeO(OH)			3	212583,212622,212623	7437
Greenockite ()*	Wurtzite	CdS			2	212583,212719	717
Gypsum ()*	Gypsum	Ca(SO₄)·2H₂O			8	212583,212592,212599,212618,212622,212657,212727,212730	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
Jamesonite ()*	None	Pb₄FeSb₆S₁₄			1	212717	784
Kaolinite ()*	Clay Kaolinite	Al₂Si₂O₅(OH)₄			1	212583	5591
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂			14	212583,212590,212592,212604,212613,212618,212622,212623,212657,212665,212675,212679,212718,212725	12537
Marcasite ()*	Marcasite	FeS₂			2	212583,212657	5674
Paralstonite ()*	Paralstonite	BaCa(CO₃)₂			3	212583,212592,212657	7
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂			14	212583,212599,212657,212665,212716,212717,212723,212727,212728,212730,212738,212740,212745,212746	39462
Pyromorphite ()*	Apatite	Pb₅(PO₄)₃Cl			6	212583,212601,212623,212663,212695,212718	1725
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	282	239	30	212583,212585,212586,212588,212592,212599,212601,212604,212606,212607,212610,212613,212614,212621,212626,212627,212653,212657,212658,212664,212678,212679,212715,212718,212722,212723,212725,212727,212730,212740	61156
Silver ()*	Copper	Ag	282	239	0		5186
Smithsonite ()*	Calcite	Zn(CO₃)			11	212583,212590,212601,212604,212612,212613,212618,212623,212626,212679,212730	2473
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	282	239	42	212583,212586,212588,212592,212597,212599,212600,212601,212603,212604,212606,212607,212608,212613,212617,212623,212626,212657,212658,212662,212664,212668,212677,212679,212687,212688,212692,212694,212705,212707,212714,212717,212718,212719,212720,212722,212723,212724,212725,212726,212727,212730	21482
Stibnite ()*	Stibnite	Sb₂S₃			1	212717	3418
Strontianite ()*	Aragonite	Sr(CO₃)			5	212583,212591,212592,212597,212715	589
Sulphur ()*	Sulphur	S			3	212583,212587,212604	2045
Synchysite-(Ce) ()*	None	CaCe(CO₃)₂F			1	212743	232
Vaesite ()*	Pyrite	NiS₂			2	212583,212599	106
Witherite ()*	Aragonite	Ba(CO₃)			8	212583,212590,212591,212592,212593,212597,212715,212718	251

2 Ages assigned to this locality:

	Excel ID	Max Age (Ma)	Min Age (Ma)	Age as listed in reference	Dating Method	Age Interpret	Prioritized?	Sample Source	Sample Num	Run Num	Age from other Locality	Dated Mineral	Minerals explicitely stated as having this age	Age applies to these Elements	MinDat Locality ID	Dated Locality (Max Age)	Location as listed in reference	Reference	Reference DOI	Reference ID	Age Notes
	ree-00658	265	239	252 ± 13 Ma and 269 ± 13 Ma (K-Ar, bio, mica peridotite)	K-Ar			biotite							168046	Hicks Dome REE-Th Prospects (Henry Hamp; Jr. No. 1 Oil Test Well; And Other Prospects), Hicks Dome, Hicks, Hardin Co., Illinois, USA	Hicks Dome	Orris and Grauch (2002)		USGSOFR02_189
	ree-00805	282	256	252 ± 13 Ma and 269 ± 13 Ma (K-Ar, bio, mica peridotite)	K-Ar			biotite							168046	Hicks Dome REE-Th Prospects (Henry Hamp; Jr. No. 1 Oil Test Well; And Other Prospects), Hicks Dome, Hicks, Hardin Co., Illinois, USA	Hicks Dome	Orris and Grauch (2002)		USGSOFR02_189

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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