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Location Type: Public Access
Details: Includes nice ruby-red sphalerite crystals, calcite crystals, and pink/yellow dolomite crystals. More rarely are good galena and pyrite crystals. Many rocks are weathered and site has been picked for decades. There are still some good specimens and sometimes splitting rocks will yield decent crystals.
Directions: Go north on Schifferdecker Ave. (at 4th St. intersection) past museum complex for about a mile.

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GPS Coordinates (lat,long): ( 37° 6'20.83"N, 94°32'51.37"W)
or (37.105786, -94.547602)
Google Map: (The GPS marker is supposed to be exact.)

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Tags: pink dolomite, dolomite, dolomite crystals, pink dolomite crystals, yellow dolomite, yellow dolomite crystals, white dolomite, white dolomite crystals, galena, galena crystals, sphalerite, sphalerite crystals, ruby red sphalerite, brown sphalerite, ruby jack, black jack, brown sphalerite crystals, crystals, calcite crystals, clear calcite, clear calcite crystals, calcite, yellow calcite, white calcite, blue galena, gray galena, limestone, chert, chat piles, tailing piles, mine tailing piles, tri-state mineral district, Joplin, Missouri, Schifferdecker Ave, Jasper County, lead, zinc, lead mine, zinc mine

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CHALCOPYRITE & DOLOMITE ~ Joplin, Tri-State Dist. MO

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UNIQUE Pyrite after Galena Crystal JOPLIN, MISSOURI

Comments (Most recent are first)

mlambert - Dec 28, 2013 10:55:58 PM EST
great location, still open, take your trash and lets keep this open, some very nice collector specimens

Scott (webmaster) - Oct 7, 2013 07:57:02 AM EST

Do you know if the property just northeast across the road is public? There is a small dirt road into the forest from the road, and there seem to always be fourwheelers following the paths there.

Landofdq - Sep 25, 2013 09:39:23 AM EST
This is private property. Don't know how someone claims this to be public?

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