CONSENT OF INDEPENDENT AUDITORS
 
The Board of Directors
Eagle-Picher Holdings, Inc.:
 
       We consent to the use of our report included herein and to the reference
to our firm under the heading 'Experts' in the prospectus.
 
       Our report dated February 5, 1997 was unqualified except for consistency
in the application of accounting principles as a result of the Company's change
in its method of computing LIFO for certain inventories.
 
                                          KPMG Peat Marwick LLP
 
Cincinnati, Ohio
April 10, 1998