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Montmorillonite from
Berkeley Pit, Butte Mining District (Summit Valley Mining District), Silver Bow County, Montana, USA


Locality type:Pit
Classification
Species:Montmorillonite
Formula:(Na,Ca)0.33(Al,Mg)2(Si4O10)(OH)2 · nH2O
Confirmation
Validity:Confirmed
Confirmation Methods:Dealer/Collection Label
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Montmorillonite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Berkeley Pit, Butte Mining District (Summit Valley Mining District), Silver Bow County, Montana, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1434527
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1434527:4
GUID (UUID V4):28628c18-f761-4542-9b5a-9f5f77668e85
Nearest other occurrences of Montmorillonite
15.5km (9.6 miles) ā“˜Unnamed clay deposit (1), Miles Crossing, Silver Bow County, Montana, USA
39.1km (24.3 miles) ā“˜Apex prospect, Whitehall Mining District (Cardwell Mining District), Jefferson County, Montana, USA
40.0km (24.8 miles) ā“˜Bonanza prospect, Whitehall Mining District (Cardwell Mining District), Jefferson County, Montana, USA
40.6km (25.2 miles) ā“˜North pit, Golden Sunlight Mine (Telluride and Excelsior; Moonlight Buffalo; Blue Moose; Minera Hill; Sunlight), Whitehall Mining District (Cardwell Mining District), Jefferson County, Montana, USA
48.9km (30.4 miles) ā“˜Montana Tunnels Mine (Part of Corbin Copper Claims), Colorado Mining District (Prickly Pear Mining District; Corbin Mining District), Jefferson County, Montana, USA
57.2km (35.6 miles) ā“˜Clay Deposit, Garrison, Garrison Area, Powell County, Montana, USA
60.8km (37.8 miles) ā“˜Clay Deposit (3), Garrison, Garrison Area, Powell County, Montana, USA
67.9km (42.2 miles) ā“˜Unnamed Clay deposit [8], East Fork Reservoir Dam, Granite County, Montana, USA
71.1km (44.2 miles) ā“˜Claystone Deposit, Blossburg, Blossburg Area, Powell County, Montana, USA
71.1km (44.2 miles) ā“˜Shale Deposit, Blossburg, Blossburg Area, Powell 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...Plata meaning ā€œgold and silver,ā€ and the state seal with its representation of mining tools clearly proclaim...Montanaā€™s mining origins. Montanaā€™s production of copper, coal, gold, lead, manganese, phosphate, silver, talc...published describing the occurrence, collecting, mining, and cutting of the two state gemstones. Figure
Report (issue)
Continental [Butte], Montana) resources. By-Product Commodities Molybdenum, gold, and silver are the economically...polymetallic assemblage of copper-, zinc-, lead-, and silver-bearing sulfide minerals. Example Deposits There...which will vary with the price of copper and local mining costs. At Dos Pobres, Arizona, from the top of...chalcopyrite, and sphalerite + galena + tetrahedrite Ā± silver. This paragenetic sequence differs from that published...the date of a study, considering the extent of mining at that date. At Batu Hijau, Indonesia, Arif and
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
2005 Copyright Ā© 2005 Elsevier Ltd Printed in the USA. All rights reserved 0016-7037/05 $30.00 ā«¹ .00 doi:10...Geological Engineering, Montana Tech of The University of Montana, Butte, Montana 59701, USA 2 Department of...of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho, USA 3 U. S. Geological Survey, Helena, Montana, USA (Received November 24, 2004;...investigated in Fisher Creek, a mountain stream in Montana that receives acid mine drainage in its headwaters...those streams that have been affected by hard-rock mining. In streams with acidic pH, diel metal cycling
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Water in the Boulder Batholith and the Butte Ore Deposits,Montana* SIMONM. F. SIā€¢EPP^m) Arm HUCH P. TAYLOR...variationsare probably primaryfeaturesof the magmas. At Butte, theisotopic dataforhydrous alteration minerals...hydrogenisotopecompositionof Main Stagealterationmineralsat Butte is very low and extremelyuniform (SD------140__+...oxygenisotopestudiesof argillic alterationin the Butte ore deposits(Sheppard et al., 1969) havetentativelyindicatedthat...magmaticwater (SD = -40 to -80). Thus the early Tertiary Butte ore deposits,and the Late CretaceousBoulder batholith
Report (Issue volume)
of nonfuel minerals and a chapter on trends in mining and quarrying in the metals and industrial mineral...State mineral production and mineral production by county were prepared in the Division of Statistics and...Resources, Division of Geology and Land Survey. Montana: Montana Bureau of Mines and Geology. V Nebraska:.... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ā€¢ ā€¢ 291 Montana, by Rodney J. Minarik and R. B. McCulloch . . ...this report. Name State____________ SECTION 2. County _ __ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ __ Stocks. production, end
Book (volume)
ae TONITE TN263. Au. =American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, V.2 and Petroleum Engineers Ore...Inst! itute i an Americ ie Lye 2 of llurgical, Mining, Meta m Engineers and Petroleu Ā© f the Ore deposiits...AND ZINC (1936) 134, MILLING METHODs 141, METAL MINING (1939) (1937-40) BLAST FURNACE, COKE OVEN AND...AIME TRANSACTIONS VOLUME 178, MINING GEOLOGY AIME TRANSACTIONS 181, MINING, INDUSTRIAL MINERALS, EDUCATION...I! Published by : : The American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers, Inc. NEW
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
1972;Fountain,1972;Titley, 1972, studiesof the district have yet been publishedand 1975;Wolfe, 1972; Kesler...is modified from Ger- known as a mineralized district. Gold was panned vasio (1966). The stablezoneis...basementcomplex VISAYAN REGION The oldest rocks in the district are the meta- morphks found on Nasi Ridge on...associatedwith porphyry copper depositsin the Baguio district 350 km to the north and on Marinduque Island 50...differentiation trend of post-Agno intrusives in the Baguio district and the Fro. 3. B. Alkali diagram (Naā€¢O + K.oO+
Report (issue)
PREDICTING WATER CONTAMINATION FROM METAL MINES AND MINING WASTES NOTES FROM A WORKSHOP PRESENTED AT THE INTERNATIONAL... Predicting Water Contamination from Metal Mines and Mining Wastes O^ggg^C. Kathleen S. Smith, Ph.D. Geoffrey... Predicting Water Contamination from Metal Mines and Mining Wastes FOREWORD This report contains copies of...site prior to mining. 11 Predicting Water Contamination from Metal Mines and Mining Wastes Kathleen...Denver Federal Center, M.S. 973 Denver, Colorado USA 80225-0046 Smith (303) 236-5788 Plumlee (303) 236-9224
Report (issue)
porphyry gold system Highā€”alumina deposits in Moore County Other deposits in North Carolina Origin and significance...Chesterfield County, South Carolina Figure 6.--Hydrothermal alteration at Pilot Mountain, Randolph County North...to economically extractable quantities of gold, silver, copper, molybdenum, tin and other metals. Fluorine...the Brewer, in Chesterfield County, S.C., and Pilot Mountain, Randolph County, N.C. -- are tentatively classified...to altered rock in certain parts of the greater Butte orebody was also noted by the same authors (Hemley
Book
of the empire was marked by the loss of gold and silver resulting from its use to import luxuries without...Mexico was invaded by Spain because of gold and silver. This invasion, however, did not lead to commercial...Spaniards was to seize and remove the gold and silver. The discovery of gold in California was of great...metals in AustraliJ.tin, copper, lead, zinc, and silver-a rapid increase in population, and industri a...a l expansion. "Agriculture waited on mining, the need of foodstuffs stimulated farming; a complex civilization
Catalog/List
Internet, Fax, and Mail) Heritage Auctions Design District Annex 1518 Slocum Street ā€¢ Dallas, TX 75207 Session...Collection LOT VIEWING Heritage Auctions Design District Annex 1518 Slocum Street ā€¢ Dallas, TX 75207 Wednesday...Mammoth-Saint Anthony Mine, Tiger, Pinal Co., Arizona, USA Named by the Romans for the area of Scotland beyond... Flambeau Mine, Ladysmith, Rusk Co., Wisconsin, USA This is one of the Chalcocite crystal groups saved...collecting policy on the part of Kennecott and Rio Tinto Mining Companies during the period of operation from 1993
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
of Geological Engineering, Montana Tech of The University of Montana, Butte, MT 59701, United States b...near the summit of Copahue Volcano. A suite of water samples was collected from the summit of the volcano...of the hyperacidic (pH b 1) crater lake at the summit of Copahue, the hot-spring source of the Upper...with pH ~ 2.6, located 10 km east of the volcano summit), and several samples of the Lower Rio Agrio downstream...studies of REE in acidic waters have focused on mining-impacted streams and lakes (e.g., Elbaz-Poulichet
Report (volume)
porphyry gold system High-alumina deposits in Moore County -----------------------------------------------Other...Hydrothermal alteration at the Brewer mine, Chesterfield County, South Carolina ------------------------------------------6...Hydrothermal alteration atPilot Mountain, Randolph County, North Carolina ------------------------------...to economically extractable quantities of gold, silver, copper, molybdenum, tin and other metals. Fluorine...Brewer, in Chesterfield County, S.C., and Pilot Mountain, in Randolph County, N.C.--are tentatively classified
Book (edition)
Lornex copper-molybdenum mine and plant, Highland Valley, British Columbia. (By permission of Rio Algon...levels when measured in feet, values of gold and silver in troy ounces, and some tonnage figures. I would...inhabited continent. Also, to those exploration and mining geologists, and the personnel of foreign geological...L. Jensen Salt Lake City, Utah CONTENTS "The mining industry is infinitely worse off today than it...the politicians' failure to recognize that the mining industry is a highly risky business." James Boyd
Report (issue)
~Pass) cs. sim ssicwiy tat.0e 276 Nevada City-Grass Valley ..... 279 New Almad@n 6.6sravs.cisis a0 sere ois:5sre...no OIL ORO OIG ZoZ 292 Boulder County Tellurides .... 294 Boulder County Tungsten ...... eeoeeesee 296...323 A. Rifle area, Colorado Ā«0s... 323 B. Uravan District, Colorado 324 Cope tick Rock DIsEEIcL sCoLoradO)...324 DeeGkante District, New sMext Comer. clecetsls cused cists! 0/0 326 E. Shiprock District, Utahā€”Arizona...Utahā€”Arizona ....vccccsnens F. Monticello-Moab-Thompsons District, Utah .....secvceee 326 327 ee eeseeee Gig GE
Book (volume)
Oklahoma Texas Utah Alaska Idaho Iowa Minnesota Montana Nebraska North Dakota Oregon SouthDakota Washington...VOLUME4: Northeast States Co1mecticut Delawar District of Columbia IUinois Indiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts...Safety Precautions ............................ Mining Techniques ......................................white diamonds of Arkan as, the blue sapphires of Montana-America teems with treasures that its citizens...exclusively i.n the Blue Ridge Mountains of Mitchell County, North Carolina, to be true hiddenite. Preface
Book
Professor of Geology, University of California, Berkeley, California Edwin Roedder, Geologist, U.S. Geological...and Timofeeva, 1962). A further exception is the silver ore at Cobalt, Ontario (Lindgren, 1933, p. 610)...titanium, platinum metals, and to a lesser extent silver, cobalt, and vanadium; it is doubtless not an accident...individual districts (for example, Cornwall and Butte) and on a larger scale around major sites of orogenic...common metals associated with granitic rocksā€”copper, silver, gold, lead, zinc, molybdenum, tungstenā€”although
Book
long (Marty, 2004 ). AFRICA widely in Litchfield County, where good crystals were taken from quartz veins...region (Brunet, I 977b ). NEW YORK Amity, Orange County. At many isolated collected sites between the towns...Mount Malosa, Chilwa alkaline province, Zomba district. "Illite" is the name of a series of incompletely...Litchfield County. Ilmenite masses and crystals from somewhere near Washington, Litchfield County, were described...Lake Road occurrence, Faraday Township, Hastings County. In fall 1994, Dan and Shelley Lambert extracted
Journal (issue)
interconnection - Spain Water quality in pit lakes ā€” gold deposits - Nevada, USA Imprint Environmental Geology...knowledge and experience. Major Secaucus, NJ 07094, USA Tel. (201) 348-4033, Telex 0023-125 994, Fax (201)...same year Changes of address. Allow six weeks for mining and abstraction activities for and remediation...Freiberg/Sachsen, Kaiserstrafe Hydrogeology Mining Geology Davip M. KarGBo U.S. EPA Region III, ...Monitoring Road P. O. Box 1428 Sequim, WA 98382, USA e-mail: degrosbois@aol.com Ormond L. HuDsoN Applied
Report (issue)
ruthenium 101.1 rhodium 102.9 palladium 106.4 silver 107.9 cadmium 112.4 indium 114.8 tin 118.7 ...image. Lithium-brine evaporating ponds at Clayton Valley, Nevada. Lithium has many uses, the most prominent...potential environmental and health issues caused by the mining and processing of many mineral commodities may...the environmental considerations related to the mining of nonfuel mineral resources, including the modern...Chapter B. Environmental Considerations Related to Mining of Nonfuel Minerals By Robert R. Seal II, Nadine
Report (volume)
Clearance Center, 27 Congress Street, Salem, MA 01970, USA: the item-fee code for this publication is 0305-8719/00/$15...Wiltshire, UK. Distributors USA AAPG Bookstore PO Box 979 Tulsa OK 74101-0979 USA Orders: Tel. + 1 918 584-2555...ground 1 BOOTH , C.J. The effects of longwall coal mining on overlying aquifers 17 WOLKERSDORFER, C. Mine...coalfields 61 DUMPLETON, S. Effects of longwall mining in the Selby Coalfield on the piezometry and aquifer...BOWELL, RJ. The hydrogeochemical dynamics of mine pit takes 159 SAALTINK, M.W., DOMENECH, C., AYORA,
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, 91125, USA (*correspondence: gabitr@gps.caltech.edu) Lawrence...California Inst. of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA 1 Climatic extremes in the densely populated tropical...ru) 1 Princeton University, Princeton NJ 08544, USA (*correspondence: egalbrai@princeton.edu) 2 Oregon...Oregon State University, Corvallis OR 97331 USA (aschmitt@coas.oregonstate.edu) 3 Geological Institute, ETHZ...in flooded underground mine workings of Butte, Montana, USA J. GAMBLE1, R. PRICE2, I. SMITH3, W. MCINTOSH4
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Netherlands. Special regulations for readers in the USA ā€” This publication has been registered with the Copyright...made in the USA. All other copyright questions, including photocopying outside of the USA, should be referred...J ā–  I p r e s e n t l i m i t of 1 underground mining ā–  ā–  1 1 ā€¢H CO CO cd ā€¢H cd \ i 4-1 ā€¢H c ...Batholith of Peru and the 1013 Boulder Batholith, Montana, have recently been studied in some and have been...Batholith near Arequipa, Toquepala-Cerro Verde district; in the centre, Morococha and in the north, Michiquillay)
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Netherlands. Special regulations for readers in the USA ā€” This publication has been registered w i t h the...made in the USA. A l l other copyright questions, including photocopying outside of the USA, should be...u n d e r g r o u n d 1 of QJ Ā· Ā· u , ĪŒ mining 1 1 ILĀ·Ā·I _ l ~ U C > cd rH cd 3 1 "1...Batholith of Peru and the 1013 Boulder Batholith, Montana, have recently been studied in some and have been...Batholith near Arequipa, Toquepala-Cerro Verde district; in the centre, Morococha and in the north, Michiquillay)
Journal (issue)
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