Galena District-Missouri-Kansas

Past Producer in Cherokee county in Kansas, United States with commodities Lead, Zinc
Sections on this page
  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Nearby scientific data
  7. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  8. Mining district
  9. Bibliographic references

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 60000894
MRDS ID K003366
Record type District
Current site name Galena District-Missouri-Kansas

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -94.65024, 37.08337 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Cherokee(county)

Kansas(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Baxter Springs(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Joplin(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Joplin(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Spring(hydrologic unit)

Neosho(hydrologic accounting unit)

Neosho-Verdigris(hydrologic subregion)

Arkansas-White-Red(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Kansas Cherokee

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Lead Primary
Zinc Critical Primary

Nearby scientific data

(1) -94.65024, 37.08337

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Year of first production 1876

Mining district

District name GALENA DISTRICT

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    MCKNIGHT, E.T., NEWMAN, W.L., AND HEYL, A.V., JR. (COMPILERS), 1962, ZINC IN THE UNITED STATES, EXCLUSIVE OF ALASKA AND HAWAII: USGS MINERAL INV. RESOURCE MAP MR-19, SEPARATE TEXT, 18 P.

  • Deposit

    SMITH, W.S.T., AND SIEBENTHAL, C.E., 1907, DESCRIPTION OF THE JOPLIN DISTRICT (MISSOURI - KANSAS): USGS GEOL. ATLAS, FOLIO 148, 20 P.

Beyond USGS

Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.