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Microcline from
Bald Mountain, Boulder Batholith, Jefferson County, Montana, USA


Locality type:Mountain
Classification
Species:Microcline
Formula:K(AlSi3O8)
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Microcline data
Locality Data:Click here to view Bald Mountain, Boulder Batholith, Jefferson County, Montana, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:311233
Long-form Identifier:1:3:311233:5
GUID (UUID V4):4876a2da-ba7c-4c48-833d-52148badcbc7
Nearest other occurrences of Microcline
2.1km (1.3 miles) Pohndorf Mine (Pondorff Mine), Toll Mountain, Boulder Batholith, Jefferson County, Montana, USA
3.2km (2.0 miles) Toll Mountain Occurrence, Little Pipestone Mining District, Jefferson County, Montana, USA
7.4km (4.6 miles) Railroad Cut, Delmoe Lake Road occurrences, Pipestone Mining District, Jefferson County, Montana, USA
8.2km (5.1 miles) Homestake Pass, Boulder Batholith, Jefferson County, Montana, USA
10.1km (6.3 miles) Beehive #3 pegmatite, Goldflint Mountain, Boulder Batholith, Jefferson County, Montana, USA
11.0km (6.8 miles) Beehive #1 pegmatite, Goldflint Mountain, Boulder Batholith, Jefferson County, Montana, USA
11.6km (7.2 miles) Janney pegmatite occurrence (Janney Station), Silver Bow County, Montana, USA
24.4km (15.2 miles) Golden Sunlight Mine (Telluride and Excelsior; Moonlight Buffalo; Blue Moose; Minera Hill; Sunlight), Whitehall Mining District (Cardwell Mining District), Jefferson County, Montana, USA
46.9km (29.1 miles) Sappington deposit, Madison County, Montana, USA
64.4km (40.0 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...The middle third of the state is known as the Montana alkali province where the sediments have MICHAEL...Indian Queen mine ca. 1905 at Farlin, Beaverhead County. 208 ROCKS & MINERALS Downloaded by [University...mines at Butte in Silver Bow County and the Black Pine mine in Granite County have produced many fine crystal
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...mile south of the city, and extending to Toll Mountain, eleven-and-one-half miles southeast of Butte
Journal (issue)
WASHINGTON May 5, 2007 9:00 am to 5:00 pm Clark County P. U. D. Building 1200 Fort Vancouver Way Vancouver...found in low grade metamorphic rocks produced by mountain building. The crucial characteristic of the environment... Origin of faden structure During episodes of mountain building in which the dominant tectonic forces...Occurrences in Montana Part I Western Montana Larry B. French HC 46, Box 7204 Miles City, Montana 59301 The...State”. Rudy Tchernich (1992) provided a list of Montana locations in “Zeolites of the World”. The author
Report (volume)
574 MINING DISTRICTS OF THE DILLON QUADRANGLE, MONTANA AND ADJACENT AREAS BY ALEXANDER N. WINCHELL ................. 75 Outlying mines in Beaverhead County.................................. 76 Polaris district......................................... 76 Bald Mountain district......................................................:.................... 146 Dry Boulder Creek......................................................... 168 Elkhorn district (Beaverhead County).................................. 168 Location
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Whitefield Gorham Gilead Gi G ilea ile ad d 2 Jefferson Figure 3. Location map, prepared by Günther Neumeier...Redstone Quarry Bartlett Lincoln Huntington Mountain Moat Mountain Government Pit Fryeburg Lovejoy Pit ...Conway Walker Pit 93 3 Plymouth N West Ossipee Bald and Bayle Mountains 3 Folsom Brook 0 2 miles...masts, building materials, and fuel. However, the mountain localities in which the miaroles occur were not...laid bare large areas, including South Baldface Mountain and Greens Ledge in particular, which temporarily
Report (volume)
the Lawson-DumontFall River District Clear Creek County Colorado By C. C. HAWLEY and FRANK BAKER MOORE...of the Lawson-Dumont-Fall River district, Clear County, Colo. 2. ~ap showing major faults (veins) of the...Amphibolite___________________________________ 8. Microcline gneiss_______________________________ 9. Granite...THE LAWSONDUMONT-FALL RIVER DISTRICT, CLEAR CREEK COUNTY, COLORADO By C. C. HAWLEY and FRANK BAKER MooRE...the Front Range mineral belt, is in Clear Creek County, Colo., just west of the highly productive Central
Report (issue)
biostratigraphy, Professional Paper 1436 on the Idaho Batholith and its border zone, Professional Paper 1437 on...America in the late Mesozoic Era, of a large batholith that was emplaced after accretion had occurred...indicate chapters] Page 1. Petrology of the Canyon Mountain Complex, eastern Oregon 1 William P. Leeman...the Bald Mountain batholith, Elkhorn Mountains, and some comparisons with the Wallowa batholith, Wallowa...implications of U-Pb zircon ages of the Canyon Mountain Complex, Sparta complex, and related metaplutonic
Report (issue)
Archean Gneisses in the Little Rocky Mountains, Montana By ZELL E. PETERMAN Radioelement Distribution in...Dating of the Climax and Gold Meadows Stocks, Nye County, Nevada By C. W. NAESER and FLORIAN MALDONADO ...Archean gneisses in the Little Rocky Mountains, Montana, by Zell E. Peterman (B) Radioelement distribution...dating of the Climax and Gold Meadows stocks, Nye County, Nevada, by C. W. Naeser and Florian Maldonado... Archean Gneisses in the Little Rocky Mountains, Montana By ZELL E. PETERMAN SHORTER CONTRIBUTIONS TO ISOTOPE
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
composition is granodiorite) of the Cathedral batholith (Daly, 1912) with an apparent age of 94.0 + 2...metamorphic series. Its age relative to the Cathedral batholith is not known. The metamorphism was pre-late Cretaceous...Range are components of the "Okanogan Composite Batholith" (Daly, 1912). The distribution of these rocks...(Huntting and others, 1961). The Okanogan Composite Batholith is separated from similar crystalline rocks of...Pateros, Okanogan County, makes a "link" between plutonic rocks of the Chelan Batholith (Waters, 1938) and
Report (volume)
527 ORE DEPOSITS OF THE HELENA MINING REGION MONTANA BY ADOLPH KNOPF WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT PRINTING........................ 50 51 51 53 54 54 55 58 Bald Butte mine...................................................... ^...................... 82 Lee Mountain mine................. ^................................................................ . 91 Jefferson limestone:......................................Ill 113 114 115 116 11.7 117 118 118 119 119 Boulder and Basin districts..../......................
Report (issue)
Cloud Peak area.... 24 Granitic rocks of Idaho batholith................................ 26 Paleozoic sedimentary...Tir Tds Tmi Tsu Tmx Tslu LATITE OF LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN Black, nearly aphyric, vesicular lavas interbedded...part of the innermost subsided zone, the "Thunder Mountain Caldera" of Leonard and Marvin (in press). The...Thunder Mountain cauldron complex. They are the Thunder Mountain analogue of the Camas-Black Mountain tuffs...composition as the much younger latite of Lookout Mountain (unit Tl) and conspicuously porphyritic flows
Report (issue)
I u The Boulder Creek Batholith, Front Range, Colorado By DOLORES J. GABLE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL...granodiorite batholith showing interrelated differences in chemistry and mineralogy in the batholith and cogenetic...Publication Data Gable, Dolores J. 1922The Boulder Creek batholith, Front Range, Colorado (Geological Survey...Docs. No.: I 19.16:1101 1. Batholiths Colorado Boulder region. I. Title. II. Series: United States Geological...... The batholith ........................................... Constitution of the batholith.........
Book
Iaria from the Howard-Montgomery quarry, Howard County, Maryland (by J. S. White) 25:53-54 AFGHANISTAN...ALABAMA Iron phosphate mineral locality at Indian Mountain, Alabama (by H. Harwood) 5:241-244 Iron-manganese...Iron-manganese phosphates of the Williams pegmatites, Coosa County, Alabama (by P. B. Leavens & T. A. Simpson) 6:66-73...18:65-74 Phosphate microminerals of the Indian Mountain area [Georgia and Alabama] (by J.B. Gordon, Jr...ALICE GLORY HOLE The Alice glory hole, Clear Creek County, Colorado (by T. A. Hanson & W. B. Craft) 18:185187
Report (volume)
Juan Mountains, Colo. E. S. Larsen, Jr. Treasure Mountain rhyolite___ -_.__do__-______ -100+200 Z-43. San...Santa Fe group, sec. 17, T.19N., R.9E., Santa Fe County, N. Mex. R. S. Cannon, Jr., R. L. Smith. ____.do__-______...____________ LS-2-55. West shoulder of Mineral Mountain, La Sal Mountains, Utah. D. R. Shawe. _do _ __-_-20...North Mountain, La Sal Mountains, Utah. D. R. Shawe. 21 _ _ _do _____ LS-6-55. Middle Mountain, La Sal...altered. LS-8-55. South side of Miner's Basin, North Mountain, La Sal Mountains, Utah. D. R. Shnwe. do 23] LS-10-54
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
(1,080 mi ) and well-exposed Pikes Peak batholith. The batholith, slightly more than 1 billion years old...common in the southern and western part of the batholith. The most recent radiometric age determi2 *Various...(mega-annum, - million years) for the main part of the batholith. The late potassic plutons, though believed to...deep-level pegmatites in the northern part of the batholith (1,066-1,077 Ma), and shallow-level (cavitybearing)...pegmatites in the southern and western part of the batholith (1,059-1,062 Ma). Significant topaz occurrences
Report (volume)
AND ORE DEPOSITS OF THE BAYHORSE REGION CUSTER COUNTY, IDAHO BY CLYDE P. ROSS Prepared in cooperation...______________________________________ Saturday Mountain formation...___________________________ Silurian... South Butte mine __ _ ..-__ .. -_.. Saturday Mountain group. ______.__________.__._.._.... Page 133...Rule mine____. _.-__-_-._.__--___-___-_-_-___--. Boulder Creek district--..-.---.-. -____---___.._______...thrust faults, and their relation to the Idaho batholith in the Bayhorse region _________________________________________
Report (issue)
Continued Minturn Formation- Continued .Jacque Mountain Limestone Member ........ . Changes in thickness.... . . . . . . . . . . 44 Photograph of Jacque Mountain Limestone Member of the Minturn Formation.......Photomicrograph of biotitic oolitic limestone in Jacque Mountain Member of the Minturn Formation . . . . . . ....and section of Gore fault on south slope of Bald Mountain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....modes of Cross Creek Granite as compared with Boulder Creek Granite . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3. Approximate
Report (volume)
Mineral Resources of the Indian Peaks Study Area, k Boulder and Grand Counties, Colorado By ROBERT C. PEARSON...1926Mineral resources of the Indian Peaks study area, Boulder and Grand Counties, Colorado. (Studies related...resources Colorado Boulder Co. 2. Mines and mineral resourcesColorado Grand County. I. United States Bureau...gneiss " Granitic gneiss Gneissic granodiorite Boulder Creek Granodiorite - Pocrmofifo Jrcglllatll/c ................ ..... ...... ..... ..... Guinn Mountain district -. Conclusions ---------------------
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
chief contribution to our knowledge of the Blue Mountain region of eastern Oregon has been made by Waldemar...of the upper Snake River drainage. 8. "The Blue Mountain Section of the Columbia Plateau Province is the... e) The Klamath Province. f) The Blue-Wallowa Mountain Province. g) The Southeastern Desert Tract. SALIENT...Coastal Range, since all of this province is not a mountain range. d) Cascade Plateau Province we think is...metamorphic rock outcrops on the north slope of Bald Mountain, covering an area of less than fifteen square
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Hampshire; and Willimantic, Windham County, and Haddam, Middlesex County, Connecticut. Gem-quality epidote...to 35 cm have been found at Eden Mills, Lamoille County, Vermont (a traditionally cited locality more accurately...accurately described as the Belvidere Mountain quarry, Lowell, Orleans County). Epidote crystals to 5 cm have...mines of Chester and from near Norwich, Hampshire County, Massachusetts; various other Massachusetts epidote...crystals from a locality near Roseville, Sussex County. Epidote is widespread in the Virginia Piedmont
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Pegmatite in the Clear Creek District, CLEAR CREEK COUNTY, COLORADO In all of Colorado's Front Range only...east flank of Mt. Evans. This pegmatite, the Bald Mountain tourmaline prospect, contains specimens of dark...tour­ maline in the Denver Mountain Parks area on June 25, 1939. The Bald Mountain tourmaline prospect as...Evans family), in Section 9, T5S, R72W. The Bald Mountain tourmaline pegmatite is a lenticular mass that...size) pegmatite composed of plagioclase, quartz, microcline (perthite), and muscovite. Two subvarieties of
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the RoundMountain and ManhattanGold Districts,Nye County, Nevada D. R. SHAWE, R. F. MARVIN, U.S. GeologicalSurvey...Shawein the Round Mountain and Manhattan 7%-minute quadrangles, southernToquimaRange,Nye County,Nevada(Figs...episodesformed a recently discoveredgold depositat Round Mountain that is one of the largestgold depositsnow knownin...ShoshoneMountain and consistingof two lobes, the Round Mountain and the Belmont, and one south of Manhattan,called... ROUND MOUNTAIN AND MANHATTAN AGES 11700730" 389 117 ø 38045 ' EXPLANATION ROUND MOUNTAIN QUATERNARY
Report (issue)
AMERICA, INC. Colorado Building P.O. Box 1719 Boulder, Colorado 80302 Printed in the United States of...cordierite-garnet-sillimani te-biotite gneiss. Associated microcline gneiss and biotite-sillitnanite gneiss that contains...Fourm,le N I KBold Mt n creek Coribou e #. BOULDER J 1--. • • / / • • • •• ----✓1S:--~ ...~ ~ _ ) _ _,... _____ ' # ~3 , I " 3 JEFFERSON ! ~ 6. 7... 9 Centro! c,1y )'lr,2 Russel l...and Gable, 1964) and, in earlier reports, as microcline-quartz-plagioclase-biotite gneiss (Moench and
Report (issue)
Dgb MESOZOIC--Rocks probably related to White Mountain PlutonicVolcanic Suite of Cretaceous to Triassic...basaltic breccia in plug at west edge of Old Speck Mountain quadrangle Alkali gabbro and syenite at Androscoggin...shown is subhorizontal sheet that caps Whitecap Mountain, in the Rumford quadrangle. Also forms innumerable...mineralogically simple bodies of quartz, albite, microcline, micas, scattered black tourmaline, and sparse...rare-mineral localities, as at Newry Mines and Black Mountain in the Rumford quadrangle (Moench and Hildreth
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Herndon. Gilman Notch, Center Ossipee, Carroll County, New Hampshire Geology of the Ossipee Area The...crystals found in nearby White Mountain localities, such as Moat Mountain, by their dark root-beer color...color. The best known collecting areas are Bald Mountain, the Connor Pond locality, Gilman Notch, Grant’s...Grant’s Jonathon Herndon 110 Ossipee Mountain Road Ossipee, New Hampshire 03814 omm@ospi.net Downloaded...esgreene@comcast.net Figure 1 (left page). View of Bayle Mountain reflected in Connor Pond, Ossipee, New Hampshire
 
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