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Lead-Zinc Mining--Evaluation of Plantings

Photograph of the area around the Eagle-Pichers Mine, Picher, Oklahoma. Slimes Pond Evaluation of plantings in Commerce, Oklahoma. View facing east along south portion of planting area (Field no. 4). This cheat grass (Bromus spp [= species pluralis]) was planted and fertilized in four rows in late September 1966. OK-2767-6.
Date: May 26, 1967
Creator: Ball, Lemuel
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Lead-Zinc Mining--Wind Erosion

Photograph of the area around the Eagle-Pichers Mine, Picher, Oklahoma, here showing the drift effects of wind erosion from slime ponds. Drifts of silicas. They blow sand from the abandoned slimes pond, themseleves about 160 acres in size lying immediately to the east of the Central Mill. Plant materials plantings were made along the south side of this area in the fall and spring of 1966 - 1967. OK-2769-4.
Date: May 23, 1967
Creator: Ball, Lemuel
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Lead-Zinc Mining--Evaluation of Plantings

Photograph of the area around the Eagle-Pichers Mine, with slimes pond evaluation of plantings in Picher, Oklahoma. View facing north in field no. 3, near the center of the field. Raymond Magness holds the rod by the sycamore tree planted on 02-03-1967. No ferilizer used, but prairie hay mulch used. OK-2879-16.
Date: July 31, 1967
Creator: Bennett, K. C.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Lead-Zinc Mining--Wind Erosion

Photograph of the area around the Eagle-Pichers Mine, Picher, Oklahoma. County road being affected by silica-blow sand with barrow ditches drifted full. This road borders the north side of an abandoned slimes pond lying immediately east of the Central Mill. OK-2769-9.
Date: May 23, 1967
Creator: Bennett, K. C.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Lead-Zinc Mining--Wind Erosion

Photograph of the area around the Eagle-Pichers Mine, Picher, Oklahoma. A country road being affected by silica-blow sands filling narrow ditches. This road borders the north side of an abandoned slimes pond lying immediately east of the Central Mill. OK-2769-9.
Date: May 23, 1967
Creator: Bennett, K. C.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Lead-Zinc Mining--Wind Erosion

Photograph of the Eagle-Pichers Mine area, at Picher, Oklahoma. A country road affected by silica-blow sand, with barrow ditches full. This road borders the north side of an abandoned slimes pond lying immediately east of the Central Mill. OK-2769-9.
Date: May 23, 1967
Creator: Bennett, K. C.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Lead-Zinc Mining--Waste Removal

Photograph of the area around the Eagle-Pichers Mine, Picher, Oklahoma. Slimes Pond Evaluation of plantings in Commerce, Oklahoma, showing an active slime pond. The fine ground silica is being discharged in a water solution from a ten-inch diameter pipe. These large pools, generally 100 to 160 acres in size, are diked and used for discharging the fine material left after commercial minerals are removed. OK-2767-14.
Date: May 23, 1967
Creator: Ball, Lemuel
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Lead-Zinc Mining--Evaluation of Plantings

Photograph of the area around the Eagle-Pichers Mine, with slimes pond evaluation of plantings in Picher, Oklahoma. View facing northwest in fertilized and mulched portion of Field no. 5. Shows growth of volunteer cottonwood trees in area planted to native grasses. Grass planted and fertilizer applied in prairie hay mulch on MArch 15 - 16, 1967. OK-2879-2.
Date: July 31, 1967
Creator: Bennett, K. C.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Lead-Zinc Mining--Evaluation of Plantings

Photograph of the area around the Eagle-Pichers Mine, with slimes pond evaluation of plantings in Picher, Oklahoma. View facing northwest in mulched border north of Field no. 3. Seeded to a mixture of weeping and sand love grass and mixed bluestem. Seeded on 03-15-1967 and fertilized with 400 pounds of 10-20-10. OK-2879-12.
Date: July 31, 1967
Creator: Bennett, K. C.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Summary of Work on the Mineralogy and Petrography of Southeast Phosphates Through April 1952 (open access)

Summary of Work on the Mineralogy and Petrography of Southeast Phosphates Through April 1952

From abstract: "In this report the mineralogy and uranium contents of southeast phosphates are discussed with reference to the lithologic units of the Hawthorn and Bone Valley formations and to waste slimes. In addition, the immediate problem of sampling leached-zone rock for process development studies is discussed and plans for future work (fiscal 1953) are presented."
Date: November 1952
Creator: Altschuler, Z. S.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library

Lead-Zinc Mining

Photograph of Slimes Pond, Eagle-Pichers Mine, Picher, Oklahoma. Weeping Lovegrass broadcast seeded on 3-20-67 on blow drigt along snow fence north end of fields 1, 2, 3. Broadcast fertilized 400 pounds 10-20-10 per year at planting time. West end (foreground) top-dressed 300 pounds per year of 10-20-10 fertilizer on 10 August 1976. Overseeded with native grass mixture (Vinita harvest) 3-26-68. OK-3013-9.
Date: April 1, 1968
Creator: Bennett, K. C.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Lead-Zinc Mining--Evaluation of Plantings

Photograph of the area around the Eagle-Pichers Mine, with slimes pond evaluation of plantings in Picher, Oklahoma. View facing west in Field No. 4, series 5. English rye grass was seeded on 09-19-1966 unmulched and fertilized at the rate of [unclear]. with rows using either 200 pounds of 10-20-10 fertilizer or 400 pounds of the same. The Road is held by Raymond Magness in the 400 pound row. OK-2878-5.
Date: July 31, 1967
Creator: Bennett, K. C.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Lead-Zinc Mining--Wind Erosion

Photograph of the Eagle-Pichers Mine area, at Picher, Oklahoma. Vegetation of old dyke around slimes pond being affected by wind erosion producing siliceous dust (sand). The dike constructed to hold water and fines [finer particulate metal] from flotation process. The pond eventually fills with fines and is abandoned. The area devoid of any vegetation is subject to severe wind erosion. This picture depicts fines converting willows and cottonwoods on the dike. The spur rairoad must receive perodic fine removal from the railroad. OK-2769-16.
Date: May 23, 1967
Creator: Bennett, K. C.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Lead-Zinc Mining--Evaluation of Plantings

Photograph of the area around the Eagle-Pichers Mine, Picher, Oklahoma. Slimes Pond Evaluation of plantings in Commerce, Oklahoma. View facing north. The southeast portion of the plantings area (Field no. 6). This shows the mulched border along the east side of the unmulched tree plantings--this border was not seeded. Observations will be made on seeding establishment from vegetation along the border of the dam immediately south of this site. OK-2767-1.
Date: May 26, 1967
Creator: Bennett, K. C.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Lead-Zinc Mining--Evaluation of Plantings

Photograph of the area around the Eagle-Pichers Mine, Picher, Oklahoma. Slimes Pond Evaluation of plantings in Commerce, Oklahoma. View facing east from the southwest portion of planting area (Field no. 4). Intermediate wheatgrass planted in late Septmeber 1966. Left row was fertilized with 400 pounds of 10-20-10 fertilizer and the right row at 200 pounds of of 10-20-10 fertilizer at planting time. OK-2767-9.
Date: May 26, 1967
Creator: Bennett, K. C.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Lead-Zinc Mining

Photograph of Slimes Pond, Eagle-Pichers Mine, Picher, Oklahoma. Field # 9 with hay mulch applied on 4-1-68. This 0.8 acre area was first seeded to a mixture of native grasses assembled by the Manhattan Plant Materials Center. It was then mulched with prairie hay at 3 tons per acre. This was anchored with an IMCO disc treader (mulch tiller) pulled from a farm row tractor. Note the water standing where tractor tires force the parched water table to the surface. 250 pound 10-20-10 fertilizer top-dressed immediately after mulching. OK-3013-16.
Date: April 1, 1968
Creator: Bennett, K. C.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Lead-Zinc Mining--Evaluation of Plantings

Photograph of the area around the Eagle-Pichers Mine, Picher, Oklahoma. Slimes Pond Evaluation of plantings in Commerce, Oklahoma. Grass seedlings were mulched with prairie hay that was hand spread following planting at the rate of 3 tons per acre and anchored with a tandem disc from March 15 - 17, 1967. This shows an adequate mulch cover, but demonstrates by the amount of loose hay on the surface that the tandem disc did not properly anchor this mulch. OK-2767-4.
Date: May 26, 1967
Creator: Ball, Lemuel
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Lead-Zinc Mining--Evaluation of Plantings

Photograph of the area around the Eagle-Pichers Mine, Picher, Oklahoma. Slimes Pond Evaluation of plantings in Commerce, Oklahoma. View facing east showing the southeast section of area. In the foreground are rows of sod-planted grasses. From right to left are rows of switchgrass, broomsedge, bluestem, American beachgrass and then one row divided among three grasses--blowout grass, plumegrass and giant reed. In the background are tree plantings (Field no. 6) unmulched with a mulch border next to snow fences. OK-2768-16.
Date: May 26, 1967
Creator: Ball, Lemuel
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Lead-Zinc Mining--Evaluation of Plantings

Photograph of the area around the Eagle-Pichers Mine, Picher, Oklahoma. Slimes Pond Evaluation of plantings in Commerce, Oklahoma. View facing east showing the southeast section of the area. In the foreground are rows of sod-planted grasses. From right to left are rows of switchgrass, broomsedge, bluestem, American beachgrass and then one row divided among 3 grasses: blowout grass, plume grass, and giant reed. In the background are tree plantings (field # 6) unmulched with a mulch border next to snow fence. OK-2768-16.
Date: May 26, 1967
Creator: Ball, Lemuel
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Lead-Zinc Mining

Photograph of Slimes Pond, Eagle-Pichers Mine, Picher, Oklahoma. Cover of annual rye drilled 9-25-67 on blow drift area north of fields 1, 2, 3 between snow fences. Fertilized with 250 pounds of 10-20-10 fertilizer per year at planting time. Top-dressed with 250 pounds of 33-0-0 fertilizer per year in February 1968. Broadcast seeded to Big Sandreed (Calamovilfa gigantea) and broadcast fertilized with 400 pounds of 33-0-0 fertilizer per year on 3-26-68. Seed and fertilizer not covered. OK-3013-3.
Date: April 1, 1968
Creator: Bennett, K. C.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Lead-Zinc Mining--Evaluation of Plantings

Photograph of the area around the Eagle-Pichers Mine, Picher, Oklahoma. Slimes Pond Evaluation of plantings in Commerce, Oklahoma. View facing north-northwest portion of area (Field no. 3). Trees planted in north-south rows and prairie hay mulched (3 tons per acre). Light mulch in foreground resulted from sand drifting before snow fences were completed. Trees planted in February and March 1967. OK-2768-9.
Date: May 26, 1967
Creator: Bennett, K. C.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Automatic Silt And Sand Separator. (open access)

Automatic Silt And Sand Separator.

Patent for an automatic silt and sand separator that settles and discharges sand, slimes and any foreign matters.
Date: March 15, 1904
Creator: Allen, Charles
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History

Lead-Zinc Mining--Evaluation of Plantings

Photograph of the area around the Eagle-Pichers Mine, Picher, Oklahoma. Slimes Pond Evaluation of plantings in Commerce, Oklahoma. View facing northwest corner of planting area (Field no. 1). On March 17, 1967, 30 rows of grass and legume species were planted east-west. Note flagmarkers. Also in the background is a broadcast grass mixture plot. Prarie hay mulch at the rate of 3 tons per acre was hand spread over the whole area immediately after planting and anchored with a tandem disc. seedbed was compacted with the rubber-tired tractor after mulching. Snow fences are to protect study area from sand drifting. OK-2768-6.
Date: May 26, 1967
Creator: Bennett, K. C.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Lead-Zinc Mining--Evaluation of Plantings

Photograph of the area around the Eagle-Pichers Mine, Picher, Oklahoma. Slimes Pond Evaluation of plantings in Commerce, Oklahoma. Field # 9 with hay mulch applied on 4-1-68. This 0.8 acre area was first seeded to a mixture of native grasses assembled by the Manhattan Plant Materials Center. It was then mulched with prairie hay at 3 tons per acre. This was anchored with an IMCO disc treader (mulch tiller) pulled from a farm row tractor. Note the water standing where tractor tires force the parched water table to the surface. 250 pound 10-20-10 fertilizer top-dressed immediately after mulching. OK-3013-16.
Date: April 1, 1968
Creator: Bennett, K. C.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History