(Thousand short tons 
and thousand dollars) 
 
 
Year 
Granite 
———— Quantity Value 
 
Limestone 
 
 
Quantity Value 
Sandstone 
 
                         
Quantity Value 
Miscel- 
laneous stone 
 
Quantity Value 
Total 
 
 
Quantity Value 
1963           
1964           
1965           
1966           
1967           
7 
3 
6 
7 
12 
$832 
219 
503 
687 
949 
 12,437 $14,537 
 11,375 12,669 13,121 14,771 13,339 15,141 13,543 15,594 
 135 $214 1,271 1,552 2,057 2,092 631 745 1,248 1,469 
 1,238 $577 1,338 647 1,233 705 1,357 820 1,552 920 
 13,817 $16,160 
 13,987 15,087 16,417 18,071 15,334 17,393 16,355 18,932 
THE MINERAL INDUSTRY OF OKLAHOMA 
657 
 
Table 15.—Sand and gravel sold or used by producers, by classes of
operations and uses 
(Thousand short 
tons and thousand dollars) 
 
Class of operation and use 
1966 
Quantity Value 
1967 
  
 Quantity Value 
Commercial operations: 
Sand: 
 
 
Building                         
Paving                           
Fill                             
 1,487 $1,437 742 715 414 177 
 1,534 $1,447 654 625 365 133 
Other'                          
 
Total                          
 
Gravel: 
 951 2,624 
 896 2,215 
 
 3,594 4,953 
 3,449 4,420 
 
 
 
Building                         
 430 785 
 126 222 
Paving                           
Other 2                          
 
Total                          
 
Total sand and gravel             
 
Government-and-contractor operations: 
Sand: 
 181 241 124 172 
 77 86 2 1 
 
 735 1,198 
 205 309 
 
 4,329 6,151 
 3,654 4,729 — 
 
 
 
Building                         
Paving                           
Other                            
 
Total                          
 
Gravel: 
 12 16 704 665 10 5 
 465 247 
 
 726 686 
 465 247 
 
- 
 
Building                         
 203 215 
 26 29 
Paving                           
 782 513 
 395 275 
Total                         Total sand and gravel             
 985 728 
 421 304 
 
 1,711 1 414 
 886 ' 552 
Grand total                     
 6,040 7,565 
 4,540 5,280 
' Includes railroad ballast (1967), other construction sand, and industrial
sand (unground and ground). 2 Includes miscellaneous gravel (1966), railroad
ballast (1966), fill (1966), and other gravel. 
' Data does not add to total shown because of independent rounding. 
 
 
Table 16.—Stone sold or used by producers, by kinds 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
METALS 
 
 Copper.—The Eagle-Picher Industries, Inc., increased the output of
copper ore from Permian red beds near Creta in southwestern Jackson County.
The ore was beneficiated at the company mill, and the concentrate shipped
to El Paso, Texas, and foreign countries for smelting. 
 
 Germanium.—Reclaimed from residues accumulated in zinc smelting, germanium
was produced from domestic and foreign ore concentrates by Eagle-Picher Industries,
Inc., at Henryetta and by Na- 
tional Zinc Co. at Bartlesville. The residue was shipped to Eagle-Picher
Ir,dustries. Inc., germanium processing plant north of Quapaw. 
 
 Lead.—Twenty-five producers conducted mining operations at 47 mines
in the Century, Quapaw, and Picher-Cardin Districts in Ottawa County during
1967. More than one operator was active on the same lease in several instances.
Output of lead decreased in 1967 as a result of a drop in the price of lead
at New York to 14 cents per pound.