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Eagle Picher Mine, Cardin, Tri-State District, Ottawa Co., Oklahoma, USA

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Calcite : CaCO3

Eagle Picher Mine, Cardin, Tri-State District, Ottawa Co., Oklahoma, USA

Calcite with marcasite, 9 x 8 cm. Doug Merson photo and collection.
 © DM 07Photo ID: 85087    View Count: 138

Calcite : CaCO3, Chalcopyrite : CuFeS2

Eagle Picher Mine, Cardin, Tri-State District, Ottawa Co., Oklahoma, USA

Barrel shaped calcites with gemmy centers and frosted surfaces with chalcopyrites included. Origin states Woodchuck Mine, which was likely a shaft off the Eagle Pitcher. 6cm X 5.5cm X 7cm
 © Geoffrey KrasnovPhoto ID: 92377    View Count: 128

Calcite : CaCO3

Eagle Picher Mine, Cardin, Tri-State District, Ottawa Co., Oklahoma, USA

7.6 x 6.5 x 7.0 cm. A pristine, aesthetic, old-time calcite specimen from the Eagle Picher Mine of the Oklahoma portion of the famed Tri-Sate District. A 6.4 cm, translucent, lustrous, doubly terminated, light amber calcite crystal is beautifully angled and perched on shard of calcite rhomb-covered matrix. There is an interesting welt in the ...
 © Rob LavinskyPhoto ID: 201681    View Count: 52

Calcite : CaCO3

Eagle Picher Mine, Cardin, Tri-State District, Ottawa Co., Oklahoma, USA

A large 14cm X 7cm X 8.5cm specimen of serially stacked lenticulated rhombohedral crystals. It appears to have been "chinked" as so many of these specimens were. From the Willard Elsing collection.
 © Geoffrey KrasnovPhoto ID: 218209    View Count: 29

Sphalerite : (Zn,Fe2+)S, Dolomite : CaMg(CO3)2

Eagle Picher Mine, Cardin, Tri-State District, Ottawa Co., Oklahoma, USA

Large, complex crystals of black sphalerite up to 5 cm on pink dolomite crystals up to 1 cm. I have many of these old specimens in the past and every one was damaged. This specimen is pristine: all crystals complete and undamaged. Overall size of mineral specimen: 9x7x5 cm. Size of individual crystals: 1-5 cm.
 © 2002 John H. BettsPhoto ID: 4798    View Count: 347

Sphalerite : (Zn,Fe2+)S, Dolomite : CaMg(CO3)2, Chalcopyrite : CuFeS2

Eagle Picher Mine, Cardin, Tri-State District, Ottawa Co., Oklahoma, USA

1 3/4 inch crystals of sphalerite laying on a bed of cream-colored saddle-shaped dolomites measuring 9 1/2 x 7 1/2 inches all sprinkled with tiny chalcopyrites. In the collection of Charles Creekmur.
 © Charles CreekmurPhoto ID: 19085    View Count: 211

Sphalerite : (Zn,Fe2+)S, Dolomite : CaMg(CO3)2, Chalcopyrite : CuFeS2

Eagle Picher Mine, Cardin, Tri-State District, Ottawa Co., Oklahoma, USA

A STRIKING and SUPERB, old-time, Tri-State specimen of a large, lustrous and striated, 5.2 cm, black sphalerite crystal nicely perched on light-pink dolomite rhombs, which are thinly to thickly sprinkled with small sphalerite and iridescent, chalcopyrite crystals. This fine old-timer from Oklahoma is from the old dealer stock of Dr. Gary Hansen ...
 © Rob LavinskyPhoto ID: 47627    View Count: 208
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