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Excerpt from The Fluorspar Deposits of Southern Illinois
Attention seems to have been first attracted to the Kentucky Illinois district by the occurrence of the brilliant colored ¿uorite. In early American geologic literature there are numerous refer ences a to this ¿uorspar, or fluate of lime, as it was then called. It was usually noted as coming from Shawneetown, Ill., since that was the nearest town of any size. The galena which occurs associated with the ¿uorite was probably noticed very early in the nineteenth century, but it was not until some years after the settlement of the country that any serious attempt was made to mine it. The first important mining venture seems to have been that Of a company headed by President Andrew Jackson, which undertook development near the site Of the present Columbia mines, in Crittenden County, Ky., in 1835. In Illinois the first mining was at Rosiclare in 1842. Lead was mined and smelted at various points in the district previous to the civil war, though it seems never to have been remunerative in a large way. Various Observers Speak Of the mining as having been stopped, or as being carried on in only a small way from 1851 b to 187 AS late, however, as 1884 competent Observers considered some at least Of the properties worthy of development for lead alone,'1 and there is even now a small output of lead.
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