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The Tri-State
Mining District
Missouri-Kansas-Oklahoma
by
Denise Bicknell
Wendell E. Wilson...George W. Robinson
Printing
Allen Press
Lawrence, Kansas
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The Tri-State
Mining District
Missouri-Kansas-Oklahoma
Denise Bicknell
16711 East Whimbrel Circle | 👁 Image
| | Report (issue) | | and Ore Deposits
of the Picher Field
Oklahoma and Kansas
GEOLOGICAL
SURVEY
PROFESSIONAL
PAPER
588
Geology...and Ore Deposits
of the Picher Field
Oklahoma and Kansas
By EDWIN T. McKNIGHT and RICHARD P. FISCHER
GEOLOGICAL...______
Short Creek Oolite Member__________
Baxter Springs Member _____________
Lbed__ _______________________...part of the Picher zinc-lead field,
Oklahoma and Kansas:
5. Northwest sheet.
6. Northeast sheet.
7. West-central...pseudomorphic replacement of chalcopyrite by marcasite.............................................. | 👁 Image
| | Report (issue) | | RESOURCES IN LEAD-ZINC
MINED AREAS IN CHEROKEE COUNTY, KANSAS,
AND ADJACENT AREAS
U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY...Report 84-439
Prepared in cooperation with the
KANSAS DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENT
ASSESSMENT...RESOURCES IN LEAD-ZINC
MINED AREAS IN CHEROKEE COUNTY, KANSAS,
AND ADJACENT AREAS
By Timothy B. Spruill...Report 84-439
Prepared in cooperation with the
KANSAS DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENT
UNITED STATES...Constant Avenue - Campus West
University of Kansas
Lawrence, Kansas 66044-3897
[Telephone: (913) 864-4321] | 👁 Image
| | Report (issue) | | Marcasite
FeS2
c 2001-2005 Mineral Data Publishing, version 1
Crystal Data: Orthorhombic. Point Group:...Z=2
X-ray Powder Pattern: Webb City, Missouri, USA.
2.70 (100), 1.755 (90), 3.43 (60), 2.41 (60), 2...00
(1) Joplin, Missouri, USA; remainder is SiO2 . (2) Jasper, Wyoming, USA. (3) FeS2 .
Polymorphism &...Series:
Mineral Group:
Dimorphous with pyrite.
Marcasite group.
Occurrence: Typically formed under low-temperature...Distribution: From numerous localities world-wide. In the USA, at Joplin, Jasper Co.,
Missouri; Picher and Cardin | 👁 Image
| | Catalog/List | | 2x1x1", £23.00,
21. CHALCoPVRITE. Baxter Springs, Cherokee Co., Kansas, U.S.A. Fine bright golden sharp...2tX1-tx1-}", £3. 2Sp.
41. GALENA. Baxter Springs, Cherokee Co., Kansas, U.S.A. Specimen A: Fine group of...2,zx1-tx1t", £5. SOp
55. MARCASITE. EJaxter Springs, Cherol'G13 Co., Kansas, U.S.A. A very fine group...the back of the specimen. 3x2tx1i;", £14.00
56. MARCASITE. Shakespeare Cliff, Folkestone, Kent. Select light...matrix. ltx1", £1.50p
82. SPHALERITE. Baxter Springs, Cherokee Co., Kansas, U.S.A. Specimen A: Very large bright | 👁 Image
| | Report (issue) | | deposits.
Association: Galena, chalcopyrite, marcasite, pyrite, fluorite, barite, quartz, many other...In the USA, in the Tri-State district of the Mississippi Valley; near Baxter
Springs, Cherokee Co., Kansas; | 👁 Image
| | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Figure I: Galena, Treece,
Kansas, Tri-State district;
specimen 5Vi cm tall; Na
tional Museum of Canada...such as antimony, arsenic,
and silver minerals.
marcasite, pyrite, chalcopyrite, fluorite, barite, calcite...stalactites in cal
cite. Native sulfur, pyrite, marcasite, calcite with crystals up
to 16 cm long, and dolomite...of the Crescent
Formation, Robertson Pit, Mason County, Washington"
(January/February 1988).
From 1961...cubic and octahedral crystals are en
closed in marcasite, calcite, and barite, or they line open
Figure | 👁 Image
| | Catalog/List | | and $2. 50.
CALCITE TWIN CRYSTALS Treece, Cherokee Co., Kansas.
Calcium carbonate. Very large sing-le yellow...and $15. 00.
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NODULAR CALCITE Treece, Cherokee Co., Kansas.
KYANITE Capelinha, Minas Gerais, Brazil...CINNABAR CRYSTALS Culver-Baer mine, Sonoma Co.,
MARCASITE Folkestone, Kent, England. Iron disulfide.
California...locality. One of the more
MARCASITE on CALCITE Treece, Cherokee Co. , Kansas.
important mercury deposits...mine, Baxter Springs,
!" toI" thin platy pieces
$2.50 and $3.50. ?" to I!"
Cherokee Co., Kansas. Lead | 👁 Image
| | Catalog/List | | Fairfield County, Branchville
White xlline with cymatolite, good study ...
New Mexico Taos County, near Dixon...cerium aluminum silicate
California
Los Angeles County, Pacoima Canyon
Large black tabular crystals in...iron silicate
ACTINOLITE
California San Bernardino County, Wrightwood
Green prismatic crystalline mass ....CROSSITE Sodium iron silicate
California San Benito County, Gem mine
Compact blue-gray mass with natrolite...sodium potassium
alumino-silicate
Arizona Final County, Christmas
Dark green cleavages in andesite .. | 👁 Image
| | Catalog/List | | (B) 25x35 nun $ 35.00
44. DOLOMITE Treece, Cherokee Co., Kansas
Choice pearly white highly curved 3 to 8...nun terminated
crystals
with
minor golden drusy marcasite
crystals.
2-1/2x3-l/2"
$ 12.50
Saxony, Germany...$ 20.00
51. GALENA Ballard mine, Baxter Springs, Cherokee Co., Kansas
Select dull gray 20x15 mm to 15x15...scattered
on
dark gray chert matrix with minor marcasite.
2x3xl"
$ 15.00
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Spring 1988 | 👁 Image
| | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 00:11 06 November 2014
Eagle Mine, Cilman, Eagle County, Colorado
W
orld production of zinc is enormous...of the BalmatEdwards district in Saint Lawrence County (Smith and
Figure 1. A fine example of jet-black...in the zinc ores of the Franklin mines, Sussex County,
New Jersey (Palache, 1937).Although approximately...Morgantown
(twins to 2 cm) in Berks County; the Thomasville quarry, York
County (bright green crystals to 4 cm);...classic nineteenth-century Wheatley mines, Chester County, where sphalerite occurred in crystals to 2 cm | 👁 Image
| | Catalog/List | | 2~-x2x1~",'£2.25p
26. CHALCOPYRITE. Baxter Springs, Cherokee Co., Kansas, U.S.A. Fine bright golden sharp...dolomite mat rix. 3x2x1t", £4. SOp
.z"
54. MARCASITE. Purc Mine, Llanrwst, Carnarvonshite, N. Wales... 5P<3t", £12.00
79. SPHALERITE. Baxter Springs, Cherokee CD., Kansas, U.S.A. A very large sharp bright...approx 1x1", £1.25p eelch.
B9. VARISCITE. Hot Springs, Garland Co., Arkansas, U.S.A. Rich bright green | 👁 Image
| | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | ALABAMA—Arbacoochee, a tiny town
in southern Cleburne County of N / E
Alabama, was famous over 100 years
ago...Richard M. Pearl
of Colorado College, Colorado Springs,
Colo., told me to write you of my discovery so...George
Robertson, Fountain Valley School, Colorado Springs, Colorado.
CONNECTICUT-"Enclosed
are a
few almandite...miles
west of Shoshone, near Bliss, in Gooding
County, Idaho. This is on Highway 30.
Hope you can identify...Iowa.
KANSAS—The following letter was
sent in a few months ago by Byron C.
Marshall, Hot Springs National | 👁 Image
| | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 449-457
MINERAL
PARAGENESIS
IN
MISSOURI,
KANSAS,
RICHARD
D. HAGNI
THE
AND
TRI-STATE
DISTRICT...Tri-State
district of southwest
Missouri, southeast Kansas and northeast Oklahoma. The most abundant
are:...are: calcite,chalcopyrite,dolomite,galena,marcasite,pyrite, and sphalerite.
All of theseare primary mineralsin...due in part to disseminatedsulfides: galena, marcasite,
pyrite and sphalerite. The crystals of all these...coveredby galena. It occurson galena
and under marcasite. It alsohas crystallizedon chalcopyrite,marcasiteand | 👁 Image
| | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | location a~ included at the end of each entry.
Adair County
Chariton River (40-04-05N 92-4 I -23W). septarian...septarian concretions about 2 miles north of the Macon county line. CALCITE
crystals enclosing bundles of acicular...hematite, quartz (Broadhead 1873b, 1877).
Audrain County
Mexico, in fire clay pits and spoil piles: PYRITE...University Library] at 19:58 29 October 2014
Barton County
McKarrow’s coal bank (37-37N 94-28W), 2.5 miles...PICKERINGITE, pyrite, siderite (Broadhead 1873b).
Bates County
Panther Creek, northwest of Rockville in coal
deposits: | 👁 Image
| | Catalog/List | | PHOTOGRAPH: _ VANADINITE Apache mine, near Globe, Gila County, Arizona.
Sharp hexagonal barrel-shaped crystal...calcium hydroxy-silicate.
Ca lifornia Riverside County, Crestmore.
White prismatic crystalline on merwinite...QUARTZ
AJOITE Copper aluminum silicate.
Arizona Pima County, Ajo, New Cornelia mine.
Sky-blue micro xls and...and coatings on monzonite ..
Arizona Pima County, Ajo, New Cornelia mine.
Sky-blue crystals and masses...aluminum silicate.
CLEAVELANDITE
California San Diego County, Himalaya mine.
White crystalled aggregates; some | 👁 Image
| | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | attention here in Denver
and at the last Wichita, Kansas, Gem and
Mineral Show." — on label.
19
CONNECTICUT...metagraywacke along the county road half way
between Chestnut Gap and Lebanon
School, Fannin County, Ga. These crystals...aluminum silicate rocks. This area is in
Clearwater County, Idaho, and any visiting rockhounds can get directions...concretion, were
also present among the specimens.
KANSAS — A most interesting specimen consisting of a large...specimen comes from the Ballard
Mine, Baxter Springs, Cherokee Co.,
Kansas.
ROCKS AND MINERALS
KENTUCKY — | 👁 Image
| | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | District, Utah, some snowflake obsidian from Millard County and
and diagrams.
Even after the splendor of Yellowstone...Colorado
June 26th saw the Berry family at
Idaho Springs, Colorado, where we enjoyed the hospitality of...visit with the Nobletts. While still
in Idaho Springs on the main street we
glanced down an alley and...which was very good.
Next day we landed in Manitou Springs
and took the morning ride up Pike's Peak
on the...we returned to
the El Colorado Motel in Manitou Springs
which we agreed was one of the nicest
motels we | 👁 Image
| | Catalog/List | | radial groups on limonile ...........
Utah Toelle County, Gold Hill, Gold Hill mine
~ransparent
micro crystals...lapis
AJOITE Copper aluminum silicate
Arizona Pima County, Ajo, New Cornelia mine
Sky blue micro xls and...cerium aluminum silicate
California Los Angeles County, Pacoirna Canyon
Large black tabular crystals in...basic sulfate of aluminum and potassium
Utah .Piute County, Tushar Mountains, Marysvale
----i'>ink crystalline...crystal vugs
ALTAITE Lead telluride
Colorado Saguache County, Klondike mine
Cleavage plates in quartz with pyrite | 👁 Image
| | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | district. This embraces
Picher (Oklahoma),
Baxter Springs
(Kansas), and Joplin (Missouri), where
the mineral...occurs with cakite, sphalerite,
chalcopyrite, and marcasite in solution
cavities in limestone and chert. Large...which come by parcel post
from all parts of the USA, thanks to Peter
Zodac and his R & M.
Amei F. Priest | 👁 Image
| | Book | | Missouri, Kansas, and Oklahoma WILDERNESS BONANZA The Tri-State District of Missouri, Kansas, and Oklahoma...Bonanza: The Tri-State District of Missouri, Kansas, and Oklahoma is published by the University...Tri-State District of Missouri, (1965) C. Bearss) Kansas, and Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication... Title: The tri-state district of Missouri, Kansas, and Oklahoma. III. Series: Oklahoma. University...southwestern Missouri, Cherokee County in southeastern Kansas, and Ottawa County in northeastern Oklahoma | 👁 Image
| | Book (volume) | | Dahlonega Co. and Rabum Co., and
the McDuffie County Belt extending through portions of McDuffie, Warren...Sphalerite.
BALDWIN COUNTY
MILLEDGEVILLE, at state farmjasper.
BANKS COUNTY
COMMERCE, along Hwy. 59...along adjoining Co. linerock crystal.
BARROW COUNTY
WINDER, along rd. to Jefferson and 1½ mi. inside...Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States
BARTOW COUNTY
AREA, Saltpeter Cave, as floatjasper.
CARTERSVILLE:...occurrences are in the vicinity of Cartersville and Cave Springs (NW Polk Co. and
147
Georgia
SW Floyd Co.). | 👁 Image
| | Journal (issue) | | PLATTEVILLE, WISCONSIN ... 268
ROCKS AND MINERALS OF KANSAS. By A . C. Carpenter ......... 269
TECTITES, A...localities, we made Locust Grove, Ohio, with marcasite which would in a short
80 miles east of Cincinnati...were marcasite.
future and if successful I will describe
them in Rocks and Minerals.
Marcasite was also...with a ¼
inch crust of marcasi te. We found some
marcasite nodules also and I further
picked up the finest...of Routes 41 and 124 , one
mile above Sinking Springs (l ocality
15 ) ; several other small quarries | 👁 Image
| | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 1890, specifically Arkansas, Oklahoma,
Missouri, Kansas, Illinois, and Ohio. It
took quite a bit of planning...Illinois, a
dealer friend named Rosenberry at Galena, Kansas, and our old friends the
Engles at Perrysburg,...did make them
well in advance at Normal and Hot
Springs, Arkansas. Howard Johnson's
provided rates, accommodations...Virginia, Tennessee,
and Arkansas, arriving at Hot Springs
on Aug. 14th. The countryside was just
beautiful...thunder storms
each night.
The area around Hot Springs is a
mecca for the collector of mineral specimens | 👁 Image
| | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | mining in Alabama in the Cragford district of Clay County, the workings which
entered the unoxidized zone...Palmer, Alaska.
ARIZONA—From a locality in Mohave County in N . W . Arizona, we have
an interesting specimen...glauberite xls mailed you last June
from Imperial County near Bertam Siding on the Southern Pacific R.R...Pittsfield,
Pike
Co., 111., I have a specimen of marcasite
that was found on my uncle's farm by
my cousin...in S/W Winneshiek County of N / E Iowa.
KANSAS—"In the southeast corner of
Kansas and extending over |
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