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Chalcocite from
Parnell Mine, Butte Mining District (Summit Valley Mining District), Silver Bow County, Montana, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Chalcocite
Formula:Cu2S
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Chalcocite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Parnell Mine, Butte Mining District (Summit Valley Mining District), Silver Bow County, Montana, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:495798
Long-form Identifier:1:3:495798:0
GUID (UUID V4):adc8c03a-cf3a-4578-b183-e46d7723ebbd
Nearest other occurrences of Chalcocite
0.2km (0.1 miles) Anaconda Mine, Butte Mining District (Summit Valley Mining District), Silver Bow County, Montana, USA
0.3km (0.2 miles) Neversweat Mine, Butte Mining District (Summit Valley Mining District), Silver Bow County, Montana, USA
0.3km (0.2 miles) Saint Lawrence Mine (St. Lawrence Mine), Butte Mining District (Summit Valley Mining District), Silver Bow County, Montana, USA
0.3km (0.2 miles) Colusa-Parrot Mine, Butte Mining District (Summit Valley Mining District), Silver Bow County, Montana, USA
0.4km (0.2 miles) High Ore Mine, Butte Mining District (Summit Valley Mining District), Silver Bow County, Montana, USA
0.4km (0.2 miles) Kelley Mine, Butte Mining District (Summit Valley Mining District), Silver Bow County, Montana, USA
0.4km (0.3 miles) Mountain View Mine, Butte Mining District (Summit Valley Mining District), Silver Bow County, Montana, USA
0.4km (0.3 miles) Nipper Mine, Butte Mining District (Summit Valley Mining District), Silver Bow County, Montana, USA
0.5km (0.3 miles) Moonlight Mine, Butte Mining District (Summit Valley Mining District), Silver Bow County, Montana, USA
0.5km (0.3 miles) Bellona Mine, Butte Mining District (Summit Valley Mining District), Silver Bow County, Montana, USA
References
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Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Butte, Montana Minerals, Mines, and History Robert E. Jenkins 6 Columbus Circle Newark, Delaware 19702...recorded from Butte. Specimens of copper sulfides and sulfosalts like bornite, chalcocite, colusite, covellite...rank among the finest in the world. The best of Butte pyrite compares with the best anywhere. Handsome...Handsome specimens of barite, quartz, rhodochrosite, silver, and numerous other species have been found, many...Kelley #2 (rightbackground) mines, Butte, ca. 1965. World Museum of Mining photo. 6 The Mineralogical Record
Journal (issue)
BUTTE, MONTANA Butte, Montana Minerals, Mines and History The Mineralogical Record Volume 33 • Number...crystal cluster, 3 cm across, From the Leonard mine, Butte, Montana. Frederick H. Pough collection; Jeff Scovil...painted to illustrate “The Story of Montana: The Treasure of Butte Hill and Development of the Great Copper...volume 33, January–February, 2002 Contents Butte, Montana: Minerals, Mines and History By Robert E. Jenkins...Jenkins & Jerry A. Lorengo Ed McDole: “Montana Mineral King” By Richard A. Bideaux What’s new in minerals:
Report (issue)
74 GEOLOGY AND ORE DEPOSITS OF THE BUTTE DISTRICT, MONTANA BY \¥ALTER I-IAllVEY vVEED WASHINGTON......................... ~ . . . . Epoch of gold mining ................................................. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Epoch o'f silver mining ........· ......... ·................................. ~.............. Development of copper mining. ~ ..· . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ................................... Future of the district .................................. ·.........
Report (issue)
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Chapter I. Mining Districts of Counties and the State of Utah. .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 County Listings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Chapter II. Mining Districts of Utah . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . 4 Mineral Localities Listed by County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Beaver County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Book (volume)
in elev. From 1,000’ on the eastern border with Montana and Iowa to 3,500’ along the western boundary with...instance, a single Spodumene crystal from the Etta Mine near Keystone on the east side of the Mount Rushmore...commercial production of minerals, principally Gold, Silver, Copper, Iron, Lead, Manganese and Zinc, along...beds, excavations, etc.Selenite roses. BRULE COUNTY AREA: in the Oacoma zone of the Pierre Fm. On Elm...gray Barite rosette up to 5 or 6 inches. CAMPBELL COUNTY MOUND CITY, W to the Missouri R., regional hillsides
Report (volume)
as the principal commodity or as a byproduct of mining other metals, based on a review of worldwide information...deposits: *Alaska PGE (9) * Syenite-hosted copper-silver-PGE *Synorogenic-synvolcanic nickel-copper (7a)...Missouri lead-zinc (32a) Carbonate-hosted gold-silver (26a) Porphyry-related deposits: *Porphyry copper...volcanogenic manganese (24c.3) Hot-spring gold-silver (25a) Hot-spring mercury (27a) Kuroko massive sulfide...deposits (10) Syenite/gabbro-hosted copper-silver-PGE Gold-silver-tellurium veins (22b) Diamond pipes (12)
Report (volume)
values from the ores of copper, zinc, lead, gold, silver, graphite, molybdenum, mercury, etcetera. The Corporation...so successful. Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Co. Mining Machinery Dept. OFFICES For Canadian MILWAUKEE...Canada THE MINES HANDBOOK Meeting tbe Needs of Mine and Smelter Hundreds of plants on both American...service from Superior Jaw Crusher Worthington mining equipment the from the standpoint of first cost...most wear, Worthington meets the needs of the mining industries with a complete line of products, from
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Denver, Colorado 80225, USA 2 US Geological Survey, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA 3 US Geological Survey...94025, USA 4 Department of Geology, Eastern Washington University, Cheney, Washington 99004, USA 5 US Geological...Geological Survey, Denver, Colorado 80225, USA Received: 8 October 1993/Accepted: 17 June 1994 Abstract...Ellenville (lat. 41~ The Ellenville (Ulster) mine in Ulster County, New York, n o w situated within the limits...~23 'W, was the site of one of the earliest lead mining operations within the territory of the present
Report (volume)
Director Bulletin 842 OF THE GREATER HELENA MINING REGION MONTANA BY J. T. PARDEE and F. C. SCHRADER UNITED...Ophir district.________________________________________________ Scratchgravel Hills and Grass Valley......__________---__--_-___ Austin district._.____..._..._._.____._____.____.___-.___._____ Marysville district.___________...___________________________________________ Gould district._______________________________________________ Stemple...._ Heddleston district.___________________________________________ Wolf Creek district.._..........__
Report (volume)
Vlrginia--503 National Center, Rm. 1C402, 12201 Sunrise Valley Dr. • SALT LAKE CITY, Utah--Federal Bldg., Rm....complexly zoned garnets from oxidized skarn, Surprise Mine, Nevada 16 Ternary diagrams showing ranges of garnet...chalcopyrite 18 Graphs showing distributions of silver grade for Au-bearing skarns 22 Graphs showing gold...gold grade compared with copper grade and silver grade 23 Contents Ill TABLES 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6....gold and silver are major commodities exploited 40 Gold-bearing skarns in which gold and silver are byproduct
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
gold-bearing deposits, Britain and Ireland John Parnell a , Sam Spinksb and Nigel Blameyc a School...Mississippi Valley Type (MVT). Chalcopyrite was used because it occurs in CONTACT John Parnell J.Parnell@abdn...Lowry et al. 1991; Moles and Nawaz 1996; Baron and Parnell 2005). These deposits occur particularly in dolostone...Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining and The AusIMM 2 J. PARNELL ET AL. Figure 1. Distribution of...WH, Wanlockhead. Disseminated chalcopyrite, chalcocite and bornite occur interstitially between pores
Book (edition)
OX5 1 GB, UK 225 Wyman Street, Waltham, MA 02451, USA Copyright © 2015, 2008 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved...Left: Reflection colours of bornite (brown), chalcocite (blue), and pyrite (creme). 2 Reflectance...number of Ag-containing minerals (not limited to silver minerals sensu strictu) develop coatings that are...either coloured films or fine layers of native silver, suggesting the presence of redox processes changing...underlying mineral (e.g., sulfide oxidised to SO2, silver reduced to metal state). Left (top): Ag-rich chalcopyrite
Report (volume)
values from the ores of copper, zinc, lead, gold, silver, graphite, molybdenum, mercury, etcetera. The Corporation...California. THE MINES HANDBOOK, 1922 MACHINERY FOR MINE • MILL SMELTER Embodying recent developments...Hydraulic TurbinpM MILWAUKEE, Metallurgical Machinery Mining Machinery Perforated Oil l-:imini-- Metals I'liiiiliini:...are getting the most in service from Worthington mining equipment — :the most from the standpoint of first...power consumption. Worthington meets needs of the mining industries with a complete line of products, from
Book
i0000malo_g608 The Battle for Butte The Battle for Butte MINING AND PoLitics ON THE NORTHERN FRONTIER...Malone Montana Historical Society Press Helena Cover photograph: Anaconda Hill, Butte, Montana, circa...circa 1900 (Montana Historical Society Photograph Archives) Cover design: Finstad Visual Design, Helena,... Montana Printed by Thomson-Shore, Inc., Dexter, Michigan Montana Historical Society Press 225 N. Roberts...Roberts St. P. O. Box 201201 Helena, Montana 59620-1201 © 1981 by the University of Washington Press
Report (issue)
not coincide with the Google-Earth images of the mine workings. The authors wish to thank William F. Cannon...following minerals deposited in zones in this order: chalcocite and other CU S minerals, bornite, chalcopyrite...pyrite, and 2 subordinate galena and sphalerite. Chalcocite forms near the oxidized source of copper; pyrite...occurs in deposits deficient in sulfide. Native silver is common. Some deposits in Zambia and Republic...exposures may be completely leached. Secondary chalcocite enrichment is not present in many deposits because
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
PALLADIUM-PLATINUM-GOLD-MERCURY BITUMEN IN THE BOSS MINE, CLARK COUNTY, NEVADA JACQUES JEDW^B,* Laboratoire deGdochimie...platinum, gold,andmercury hasbeenfound in theBoss mine,ClarkCounty, Nevada, whererichoresof"invisible"...firm in LosAngeles reported thatthe ore The Boss mine geologic settingandoregeology weredecontained noplatinum...eralswereidentified in thepowdery orecomposed ofquartz mine,together Goodsprings Quadrangle. Unfortunately,...foundsomedistance fromthe pre- minutegrainsof chalcocite." ciousmetalpowdershoot.According to KnopFsdescription
Report (Issue volume)
these card catalogues would be as useful to the mining industry as they have proved to be to the Division...and expense involved are justified and that the mining industry will find that having this material readily...accumulating steadily since 1853, when the first mine (a coal property) was developed. Actually it antedates...During the 90 years or more that prospecting and mining have been active, a vast amount of information...extensively to the fund of published data. Also, mining journals and periodicals, many of which are no
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
mlflde minerals fromthe Central district, New Mexico and the Bin&am district, Utah* ARTHUR W. ROSE Department...and well-located specimens from single mines or mining districts have been made and discussions of the...trace elements and pass through most of the larger mining districts in the western United States, were called...that variations of trace element content within mining districts were generally small compared to the...districts, and thus that differences between his district averages had some geographic significance. Nevertheless
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Munster Basin, Ireland Samuel C. Spinks, John Parnell, David Bellis, John Still PII: DOI: Reference:...Please cite this article as: Spinks, Samuel C., Parnell, John, Bellis, David, Still, John, Remobilization...across the Munster Basin, accompanied by trace gold-silver-mercury accessory phases. New sulfur isotope data...minerals also concentrate precious metals (gold, silver etc.); and how the mineral assemblages compare... MA rocks of southern Ireland as far north as County Clare (Matte 2001, Nenna & Aydin 2011). In the
Report (volume)
Meetings. Washington, D. C. American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers: Contributions, nos...Section of Bulletin, 1933, 1934. New York. See also Mining and Metallurgy. American Journal of Science, 5th...Canadian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy: Transactions, vols. 35, 36; Canadian Mining and Metallurgical...special no. 11 (nos. 1-6). Ottawa, Ontario. Canadian Mining Journal, vols. 54, 55. Gardenvale, Quebec. Carnegie...vols. 9, 10. Sharon, Mass. Copenhttgne, Museum de mine"ralogie et de ge"ologie, cle PUniversite' de Copenhague:
Book
Editors. SPENCER . . R. TirLey has worked as a mining geologist in the western United States in both...where no maps were available. In southern Yuma County he even discovered and named a whole new range...specific mention are the mapping in southern Yuma County, studies on gold lode and placer deposits, work...Range Province, and work on a number of individual mining districts and on numerous mineral commodities....establish Tucson, Arizona, as the hub of the copper mining industry of the United States. In fact, an inscribed
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
sulfide precipitation. Copper sulfides (bornite, chalcocite, chalcopyrite) filled spaces among bitumen, carbonate...bitumen in the ores of the Talcuna copper/manganese district and in several other stratabound copper deposits...The concept has been assessed for Mis­ sissippi Valley-type deposits (e.g., Anderson and Macqueen, 1982;...Barnes, 1987) and for metals in bitumens (e.g., Parnell, 1988, 1993). Organic matter may play physical...in the Recreo copper prospect in the Fragua Mn district near Andacollo (Zentilli, 1963), and solid bitumen
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
pp. 850-871 SULFUR ISOTOPE ABUNDANCE DATA, DISTRICT, UTAH CYRUS W. BINGHAM FIELD CONTENTS PAGE...a4ratios of 44 sulfideconcentratesfrom the Bingham district range from 22.151 to 22.306 for a total isotopicvariation...geologic distribution of pyrite throughout the district. The isotopic compositionof a sulfidemay be partly...weak isotopic zonation is evident for the Bingham district as mean S3•/Sa• ratios for pyrite indicate a progressive...trend is three-dimens{onal. Because this weak district-wide iso- topic zonationmay be obscuredby other
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Metal enrichments in solid bitumens: A review J. Parnell Department of Geology, The Queen's University...on the association of bitumens with Mississippi Valley-type lead-zinc deposits (e.g. Anderson and McQueen...Both mechanisms have been proposed for Mississippi Valley-type ore genesis (see Giordano 1985 for a recent...reported elsewhere in studies of individual regions (Parnell 1983a, 1984). * Points of interest from the data...uranium mineralization at Halkyn and Craig Well (Parnell and Eakin 1987) were first established during this
Book
a world leader in the production of e0pper. the mining areas of Cornwall and Devon became important producers...player in world zinc produ.:tion. Th· development of mining tin particular during the 18th and 19th centuries)...continue unabated despite there n '" being , ·~- link mining acti,·ity in Britain or Ireland. My original intention...onNewMinerals,Nomenclature andClass::ication. Co. County. EMPElectronmicroprobe - an instrument usedto ...Element Atomicno. Symbol Element Atomicno. Ag Silver 47 Na Sodium 11 Al Aluminium 13 Nb Niobium
 
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