Dolomite with Marcasite

specimen number:
2571210

location:
Cane Creek Quarry, Butler Co., Missouri, USA

description:
Attractive and aesthetic example from this locality strictly close to collecting. Light pink lustrous rhombohedral crystals of dolomite are set up on a matrix with golden crystallized marcasite. Aesthetic and in great condition.

Cane Creek Quarry (also operated as Cane Creek Stone) is an active commercial limestone and aggregate quarry located just south of Poplar Bluff in Butler County, Missouri. Established in modern decades to supply crushed stone for regional highway, asphalt, and heavy construction projects, the site remains operational. Geologically, the quarry extracts stone from the extensive Paleozoic carbonate strata characteristic of southeastern Missouri's Ozark border region, which primarily yields high-purity limestone and dolomite. These sedimentary formations occasionally feature vugs and fractures hosting well-crystallized mineral specimens, most notably fine clusters of pink dolomite accompanied by sulfides such as marcasite and pyrite.

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