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Microcline from
Railroad Cut, Delmoe Lake Road occurrences, Pipestone Mining District, Jefferson County, Montana, USA


Classification
Species:Microcline
Formula:K(AlSi3O8)
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Epidote1 photo of Microcline associated with Epidote at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Microcline data
Locality Data:Click here to view Railroad Cut, Delmoe Lake Road occurrences, Pipestone Mining District, Jefferson County, Montana, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1107951
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1107951:0
GUID (UUID V4):bcc082b1-8698-4e8e-84dc-75d51b67b093
Nearest other occurrences of Microcline
7.4km (4.6 miles) Bald Mountain, Boulder Batholith, Jefferson County, Montana, USA
7.7km (4.8 miles) Beehive #1 pegmatite, Goldflint Mountain, Boulder Batholith, Jefferson County, Montana, USA
9.4km (5.9 miles) Pohndorf Mine (Pondorff Mine), Toll Mountain, Boulder Batholith, Jefferson County, Montana, USA
9.9km (6.1 miles) Beehive #3 pegmatite, Goldflint Mountain, Boulder Batholith, Jefferson County, Montana, USA
10.4km (6.4 miles) Toll Mountain Occurrence, Little Pipestone Mining District, Jefferson County, Montana, USA
11.6km (7.2 miles) Homestake Pass, Boulder Batholith, Jefferson County, Montana, USA
16.3km (10.1 miles) Janney pegmatite occurrence (Janney Station), Silver Bow County, Montana, USA
19.0km (11.8 miles) Golden Sunlight Mine (Telluride and Excelsior; Moonlight Buffalo; Blue Moose; Minera Hill; Sunlight), Whitehall Mining District (Cardwell Mining District), Jefferson County, Montana, USA
43.6km (27.1 miles) Sappington deposit, Madison County, Montana, USA
68.3km (42.5 miles) Main Range Beryl Occurrence, Anaconda Range, Deer Lodge County, Montana, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Montana Mineral Locality Index Downloaded by [University of Nebraska, Lincoln] at 20:00 09 April 2015...2015 K NOWN AS THE TREASURE STATE, Montana is rich in mineral and gemstone localities. The state motto...with its representation of mining tools clearly proclaim Montana’s mining origins. Montana’s production...published describing the occurrence, collecting, mining, and cutting of the two state gemstones. Figure...2. Granville Stuart established Montana’s first mining camp at Gold Creek in 1860. Geologic Provinces
Book (volume)
Dahlonega Co. and Rabum Co., and  the McDuffie County Belt extending through portions of McDuffie, Warren...Sphalerite. BALDWIN COUNTY MILLEDGEVILLE, at state farmjasper. BANKS COUNTY COMMERCE, along Hwy. 59...Co. linerock crystal. BARROW COUNTY WINDER, along rd. to Jefferson and 1½ mi. inside the Co. line in...Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States BARTOW COUNTY AREA, Saltpeter Cave, as floatjasper. CARTERSVILLE:...distribution in NW Georgia, but most important occurrences are in the vicinity of Cartersville and Cave
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
BUTTE PEGMATITE BELT Silver Bow and Jefferson Counties, Montana E618 By R A Y M O N D L A S M A N I...specimen was added to my collection from the Butte, Montana Pegmatite Beit. During boyhood days, I took an...tapering smoky quartz crystal, labeled as from Butte, Montana. The outer surfaces of the crystal were slightly...June 8th, and by the next morning was up at the Montana College of Mineral Science and Technology to view...vugs contain crystals of quartz, orthoclase, and microcline, with interstitial sericite and minor black tourmaline
Book (volume)
Most specimen collecting is done in the Lead-Zinc mining dists. of northwestern Illinois, the glacial drift...600 to 800 feet thick in the north. ALEXANDER COUNTY FAYVILLE, area stream gravels⎯agate, jasper, rare...⎯agate, jasper; d RR siding of Clay⎯agate. CALHOUN COUNTY AREA, shores of the Mississippi R., in the Warsaw...crystals). CRAWFORD COUNTY PALESTINE, area deposits⎯Siderite. EDWARDS COUNTY AREA, T. 1 S, R. 10 E...E, regional deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip
Book (volume)
Most specimen collecting is done in the Lead-Zinc mining dists. of northwestern Illinois, the glacial drift...600 to 800 feet thick in the north. ALEXANDER COUNTY FAYVILLE, area stream gravels⎯agate, jasper, rare...⎯agate, jasper; d RR siding of Clay⎯agate. CALHOUN COUNTY AREA, shores of the Mississippi R., in the Warsaw...crystals). CRAWFORD COUNTY PALESTINE, area deposits⎯Siderite. EDWARDS COUNTY AREA, T. 1 S, R. 10 E...E, regional deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
University] at 07:55 02 December 2014 Figure 1. County map of New York State, prepared by William Besse...certain of their accuracy, but for some of these occurrences, the exact locality is unknown to us. Please...sedimentary rocks; (2) mineralization in fractures that cut across preexisting rocks; and (3) minerals in crystalline...rocks. This grouping tends both to put similar occurrences together and to indicate something about their...occurrence (e.g., the zinc deposits of the Balmat district). The type of occurrence is indicated at the end
Report (issue)
Numerous samples were contributed by geologists of mining companies, and these are acknowledged in the text...Appendix. The interest shown by the geologists of the Lake Superior region in theprogress of the investigation...Introductory Statement ............ . 86 Vermilion District .................. . General Statement .........Intrusives ..... Sequence of Intrusions . Knife Lake Group ...... . History of the Name .. . Ogishke...the Vermilion District Soudan Area ................ . Knife Lake Area ..... . Snowbank Lake Area .. Saganaga
Book
withdrawn because of reclamation projects in old mining areas, because new construction covers up old sites...minerals can be found. In recent years the largest Lake Superior agate ever reported was found in Minnesota...Surveys, the State Divisions of Tourism, to museums, mining companies, fee basis operators, listed guides...minerals and fossils have been found. While gem occurrences are given priority, fossil and mineral sites...Minnesota is a Lake Superior State. Wisconsin has shoreline on both Lake Superior and Lake Michigan. Michigan
Report (volume)
a clearer and more comprehensive view of the occurrences than 3 4 USEFUL MINERALS OF THE UNITED STATES...it helpful to refer to Survey Bulletin 507, "The mining districts of the western United States," and to...abundant, it may have been completely exhausted by mining or quarrying. Deposits of minerals of wide distribution...because they occur in sufficient quantity to warrant mining for their usual products but because they furnish...See Bauxite and Hallpysite. Asbestos. Tallapoosa County, with corundum deposits near Dudleyville; not found
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
st' ON m - - ^ ^^^r Mineral Occurrences ' ITEMS ON NEW FINDS ARE DESIRED \~. PLEASE SEND THEM I N . ...I learned that at the present time the largest mining operation is a barite mine operated by the National...the old open pit Sodium Sulphate mine in Imperial County near BertROCKS AND MINERALS ram siding on the...the Mulligan Stew pocket. "No. 2—Microcline and Albite. This microcline is rather an unusual color, almost...nice color combination, the curvature of the microcline xls also adds interest. You will note that both
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
omitted from locality information. Where lot and district numbers are given, it is necessary to use topographic...Occurrence in Carroll County, Georgia" (November/December 1988). Banks County 184 ROCKS & MINERALS...provided many of the photographs. Baldwin County Milledgeville district—between the State Sanitarium and the...pit—east of S.R. 243 near the Baldwin-Wilkerson County line: kaolinite (Martin and Stafford, 1972). Cheatham...the Jackson County line, 8 km east of Commerce on S.R. 59, and 0.8 km off Browns Road: beryl (Furcron
Report (volume)
....................................... 102 District of Columbia ......................................... 139 144 146 153 158 163 169 . 172 174 Montana..................................................to refer to Geological Survey Bulletin 507, "The mining districts of the western United States," and to...abundant it may have been completely exhausted by mining or quarrying. Deposits of minerals that are widely...because they occur in sufficient quantity to warrant mining for their usual products, but because they furnish
Book
milky quartz stems. Denny Mountain area of King County. Specimen from the collection of Cary A. Maykut...and library study of Washing­ ton's mineral occurrences have helped this writer to realize the poten­...ABBREVIATIONS 24 GLOSSARY 25 COUNTY INDEX OF MINERAL OCCURRENCES 29 MINERAL DESCRIPTIONS 35 BIBLIOGRAPHY...(using a code explained on page 21) and a county by county list mentioning the nature of their occurrence...Parks and Monuments prohibit all collecting. state, county and city parks usually prohibit collecting. Please
Book (volume)
California and Maine, the sparkling sapphires of Montana, and the jades of Alaska, British Columbia,...10001 Van Nostrand Reinhold Limited 1410 Birchmount Road Scarborough, Ontario M1P 2E7, Canada Van Nostrand...and discusses those species which are primarily cut as gemological curiosities with little or no regular...and Park Historian Lloyd Abelson in the case of Pipestone National Monument. Information on gems and gemstones...helpful in providing informa- tion on gemstone occurrences or directing the author to useful references
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
several counties. In addition, the TriState zinchead mining area, active for more than one hundred years, extends...as the Picher district, which is in the Oklahoma portion of the TriState. This district has probably produced...accumulated much information on Oklahoma mineral occurrences, but it has yet to be published. Fortunately...an asterisk (*) are particularly noteworthy occurrences. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS We would like to thank A1 Kidwell...October 2014 Mineral Index by Counties Alfalfa County Carmen, 2 mi. NE of Carmen, 1 .1 mi. W of Highway
Report (volume)
of published knowledge) including the chief occurrences of 445 mineral species UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT...main part of the report describes the chief occurrences of 445 mineral species, 42 of them first found...location and means of access to all the metallic mining districts in the State, as well as a large number...descriptions of new 1ninerals, or of mineral occurrences, have later been found to be in error. The purpose...on paragenesis or the meanings of the mineral occurrences. To have included all such facts would have made
Book
Field Collecting 52 Field Check of Mineral Occurrences arid Characteristics; FluorescentMineral Hunting;...Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Mississippi Missouri Montana Nebraska Nevada New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico...and Gemstones in Metamorphic Rocks Generalized Occurrences of Minerals Mohs Scale of Hardness Field Check... Recently, archaeologists working in the remote Lake Rudolf area of Africa's Kenya found shaped stone...cultural evolution and the possibility of language. The Lake Rudolf implements are some 1,800,000 years older
Report (issue)
RESOURCES PUBLICATION 89 MINERALS OF ALBEMARLE COUNTY, VIRGINIA Richard S. Mitchell and William F. Giannini...RESOURCES PUBLICATION 89 MINERALS OF ALBEMARLE COUNTY, VIRGINIA Richard S. Mitchell and William F. Giannini...RESOURCES PUBLICATION 89 MINERALS OF ALBEMARLE COUNTY, VIRGINIA Richard S. Mitchell and William F. Giannini...talc l0 PUBLICATION 89 MINERALS OI' ALBEMARLE COUNTY. VIRGINIA Richard S. Mitchell* and William F....references to various minerals found in Albemarle County are found in both published and unpublished geological
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
settlement was initially spurred by the lead-zinc mining in its southwest comer, a heritage preserved by...Racine (Scovil 1994), the pegmatites of Florence County (Koehier 1989) and the Wausau area (Falster 1987)...marcasite. A major mining district, the Upper Mississippi Valley zinc-lead district, was in these rocks...barite, and copper minerals were found. Mining in this district ceased in the late 1970s. A branch of the...zircon), particularly in the Wausau area of Marathon County (Falster 1987). Middle Proterozoic quartzites (1
Report (issue)
Deposits of the Jefferson City QuadranglJefferson and Lewis and Clark Counties, Montana By GEORGE E....1922Geology and mineral deposits of the Jefferson City quadrangl~, ·Jefferson and Lewis and Clark Counties, Montarra...deposits of the Jefferson City quadrangle, J e:fferson and Lewis and Cl ark Counties, Montana. 1963. (Card...2) 1 1. 'Geology-Montana-.Jefferson City quadrangle. 2. Ore-depositsMontana-Jefferson C:ity quadrangle...quadrangle. 3. Mines and mineral resources-Montana-Jefferson City quadrangle. I. Pinckney, Darrell Mayne, 1925-
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Mineral Occurrences ITEMS ON NEW FINOS ARE DESIRED PLEASE SEND THEM I N . ^ . Abbreviations: x l — c...xline masses of ankerite have been found in a road cut south of Centreville, Bibb Co., Ala. ALASKA —...following addition to "World News on Mineral Occurrences' as the first of many California localities which...graphite in schist may be obtained in a road cut on Little Tujunga Road, 8.8 miles north of its junction with..."Graphite from Little Tujunga Canyon (road cut on Little Tujunga Road), Los Angeles Co., Calif." — on label
Report (issue)
COVER PHOTO : Gold nugget from Dukes Creek, White County, weight 5 oz., 12 dwt., approx. 2x. BACK COVER...Pulaski County, approx. lx. Right - Magnetite crystal face showing interference growth, from Lake Lanier...Geophysical studies Hydrology Economic geology Mining directory Environmental studies Engineering studies... MINERALS OF GEORGIA: THEIR PROPERTIES AND OCCURRENCES by Robert B. Cook STATE OF GEORGIA DEPARTMENT.......... · . · . · · · · · · · · ....... -160 Microcline ....................................... · · ·
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
nesota sounded the death knell for metal mining in Connecti­ cut. Now, trap rock, marble/limestone, sand...e s , Beaver B r o o k district, Danbury: barite, calcite, graphite, microcline. Marcelle Weber, a mineral...Collis P. Huntington State Park, off Codfish H i l l Road exit: albite, bertrandite, columbite, quartz, schorl...pegmatite q u a r r y , B r a n c h v i l l e , Mountain Road: albite and muscovite mixture (obsolete: cymatolite)...inaccessible), Dodgingtown, Newtown, off Purdy Station Road: albite, bertrandite, beryl, quartz, including var
Journal (issue)
pocket in 1955 at least 25 others were found as mining progressed. The contents of these, which ranged...shipped to the smelter from this one stope. The two railroad cars that were filled with this ore glistened...Eureka Supplement THE THRILL Tourmaline crystals, cut gems and a slab (6.2 cm) from the 1972 find by Dean...Colorado, and their most publicized effort, the mining of variscite nodules at Fairfield, Utah (the type...estimated 12 to 15 feet that I can raise before being cut off by old workings. Am shipping you 8 boxes, 61/2
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
lower Paleozoic TRAVIS A. PARIS 5604 Malmsbury Road Knoxville, Tennessee 37921 taparis@msn.com Figure...left). Calcite, 5.5 cm high, Elmwood mine, Smith County. Terry Huizing specimen, Jeff Scovil photo. Figure...(above). Fluorite, 13.1 cm wide, Elmwood mine, Smith County. Francis Benjamin specimen, Jeff Scovil photo....Smith County. Terry Huizing specimen and photo. Figure 4 (right). Cumberland mine, Smith County. Travis... minerals, and mineral resources of the state. Mining has been an important part of Tennessee industry
 
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