Silver Mines of Madison County Missouri

Silver Mines Recreation Area in Madison County, Missouri is located west of Fredericktown . It is situated along a steep river gorge of the St. Francis River. This area contains the ruins of both a 1920s silver mine and a World War II era tungsten mine. Examples of the minerals that were once mined can still be found in the abundant tailings on the south side of the St. Francis River, just downstream of a now-breached stone dam. They consist of metallic-appearing sulfides such as sphalerite, arsenopyrite, and marcasite embedded in opaque veins of quartz. Careful searchers can also find crystals of wolframite, a tungsten ore that was mined briefly during World War II when access to other sources was cut off, and small grains of topaz, which caused the earlier silver miners of the area considerable economic grief by wearing out their diamond-tipped drills more quickly than anticipated. Both highly magnetic magnetite and slightly magnetic ilmenite (titanium ore) grains can be found be found in patches of black sands left along the beach of the main swimming area. Madison County also contains unique igneous rocks not found anywhere else, such as Devonite, a colorful decorative stone found only in a single in single igneous intrusion dike on Mount Devon. Fredericktown is located at 37°33′34″N 90°17′40″W / 37.55944°N 90.29444°W / 37.55944; -90.29444 (37.559436, -90.294533)[4]. Listed Below are silver mines listed for Madison County from DRC 2.0.

Mine Name	Lat	Long	Township	Range	Section
19 Rows	Data exported from DRC 2.0 (c) 2009 Gary Kindel
APEX SILVER MINE - SHAFT NUMBER ONE	37.554722	-90.45	033 N	005 E	12
E P SETTLE SILVER MINE	37.387222	-90.364167	031 N	006 E	10
EINSTEIN MINE	37.557222	-90.4425	033 N	005 E	12
EINSTEIN MINE- APEX MINE	37.5575	-90.443333	033 N	005 E	14
EINSTEIN SILVER MINE	37.5575	-90.442778	033 N	005 E	12
GABRIEL SHAFT	37.561111	-90.443889	033 N	005 E	12
HARRY CLOVER PROPERTY	37.523611	-90.210833	033 N	008 E	30
HENSON SHAFT NUMBER ONE	37.5625	-90.450833	033 N	005 E	12
NEW DISCOVERY TUNNEL	37.558056	-90.441389	033 N	005 E	12
OZARK MINE	37.539722	-90.455278	033 N	005 E	14
REVELLE PROSPECT	37.468889	-90.276667	032 N	007 E	09
RIVER TUNNEL + SHAFT	37.558056	-90.441389	033 N	005 E	12
SETTLE MINERAL PROSPECT	37.387222	-90.364167	031 N	006 E	10
UNKNOWN - SILVER	37.558056	-90.441389	033 N	005 E	12
UNKNOWN - SILVER	37.561111	-90.443611	033 N	005 E	12
UNKNOWN - SILVER	37.558056	-90.444722	033 N	005 E	12
UNKNOWN - SILVER	37.561944	-90.441944	033 N	005 E	12
UNKNOWN - SILVER.TUNGSTEN	37.555	-90.448333	033 N	005 E	12
WOOD CHUTE TUNNEL	37.558056	-90.441389	033 N	005 E	12