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Atacamite from
Kent Mine, Blue Wing Mining District, Beaverhead County, Montana, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Atacamite
Formula:Cu2(OH)3Cl
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Atacamite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Kent Mine, Blue Wing Mining District, Beaverhead County, Montana, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:700836
Long-form Identifier:1:3:700836:8
GUID (UUID V4):a5562761-a52c-4762-9eeb-e64237c18d28
Nearest other occurrences of Atacamite
93.3km (58.0 miles) Ima Mine, Blue Wing Mining District, Lemhi County, Idaho, USA
References
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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
Report (volume)
DIRECTOR BuiiIiETIN 574 MINING DISTRICTS OF THE DILLON QUADRANGLE, MONTANA AND ADJACENT AREAS BY ALEXANDER................................................. Mining districts...................................................................................... Mining development. ...................... .. - - ' -..................................... 18 Placer mining....... ~................................................................ 20 Present status of mining .....:........................................
Journal (issue)
EDITOR: George Ryba.:k . 42 Bell Road. Sitlingbourn.:. Kent ME 10 4EB. L.K . JOURNAL MANAGER: Rex Cook. '13...and D. Millward 64 Cuprosklodowskite from Geevor mine, Cornwall N.J. Elton, J.J. Hooper and L. Coggon...sulpha tes in an underground level of Botallack mine. Krohnkite is present and this is believed to be...assemblages observed in material from the mine tailings around Bota llack mine and Wheal Cock. The supergene mineral... INTRODL'CTION Botallack mine (SW 363 336) in the St Just mining district, Cornwall (Fig. I), although
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Library] at 03:41 01 August 2012 Olivenite TSUMEB MINE, TSUMEB, OSHIKOTO REGION, NAMIBIA H ydrothermal...from the worldfamous Tsumeb mine in Namibia, where attempts at specimen mining have taken place in recent...Southampton University. A consultant geochemist in the mining industry, he is also an avid collector of micromounts...Mountain states. In the copper mines of Houghton County, Michigan, where primary arsenides have provided...from Hinsdale County, Colorado, and from the Blackbird and Nickel Plate mines in Lemhi County, Idaho. In
Book (edition)
in Colorado at Aspen and in Boulder County; also in several mining areas in Arizona. Good specimens have...Homestake Mine, South Dakota; in Montana and Arizona. Also in Ural Mts., U.S.S.R.; and at Waihi Mine, Mine...Chartres In Australia, at Mount Morgan Towers district, from Hillgrove, from Hill End, and large production...and Cuprite in Nevada; at Sulphur Bank mercury mine and at Lassen Peak, California. Sharp well-shaped...Butte, have’ been found at at Breckinridge, Montana. Franklin, New Well-shaped crystals at Binnatal
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JASPER ORBS: Formation of Unique Features Turquoise Mining ROCK & GEM • Vol. 49 No. 06 • U.S. $5.99 Issue... 06 0 74470 02033 2 EMERALD VILL AGE Blue Ridge Mining Exploration Special Section Tools of the...Turquoise rough recently extracted from the North Star Mine in Cripple Creek, Colorado; a specimen of Morrisonite...underground workings is visible at the center. MINING HISTORY ASSOCIATION, WWW.MININGHISTORYASSOCIATION...deep ocean black smoker “geysers” were actually mining minerals from the earth’s interior. he mechanism
Report (issue)
Australia, it is often necessary to christen a new mining field, and to assign names to its creeks, gullies...north-west of C.”; A, B, and C may all be in the same district, but it is sometimes difficult or impossible to...” “Leigh Creek,” “Avondale Mine”; all these are in the Leigh Creek District, and there may be but one...Zmc-lead Salphide Deposits of the Read-Rosebery District. Bull. Geol. Surv, Tas., 23, 1915. .Jensen (H...Mount Shamrock Mine. Ihid., No. 168, 1901. 34. On the Mount Biggenden Gold and Bismuth Mine and Paradise
Journal (issue)
Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Joseph A. Mandarino...Thirty-four, Number Four Articles The El Desierto sulfur mine, Potosí, Bolivia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...Secondary minerals of the Mazarrón-Águilas mining district, Murcia Province, Spain . . . . . . . . . ...Famous mineral localities: The Pacajake selenium mine, Potosí, Bolivia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...Mineralogical Record, volume 34, July–August, 2003 Kent England Kent England Carlos Barbosa (1917–2003) Abe
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
suggest that secondary copper minerals (antlerite, atacamite, malachite) may also be actively forming, suggesting...addition, the presence of atacamite (Cu2(OH)3Cl) and/or paratacamite (atacamite polymorph) in Miocene gravels...leached cap and enriched oxide (now dominated by atacamite and brochantite (Cu4(OH)6SO4)) and sulfide (chalcocite...the southern part of the Spence deposit with atacamite and brochantite in the oxide zone, as well as...supplies from natural (geogenic) and anthropogenic (mining) sources in northern Chile is a known health issue
Journal (issue)
specimens) from the period 1759-1930, of the Moscow Mining Academy (about 10,000 specimens), which existed...and collectors, as well as the five volumes of "Mining Encyclopedia," "Practical Mineralogy Handbook"... Beryozovsk, Adun-Chilon, and the Zmeinogorskii mine appear to be represented the most completely and...mines), malachite (the Gumeshevskii mine), crocoite (the Beryozovskii mine), jasper (Orsk), and others. Large...the museum is that of J .K. Freiesleben, a Saxon mine broker (1774-1846). It contains minerals from classic
in Colorado at Aspen and in Boulder County; also in several mining areas in Arizona. Good specimens have...Homestake Mine, South Dakota; in Montana and Arizona. Also in Ural Mts., U.S.S.R.; and at Waihi Mine, New...Zealand. In Australia, at Mount Morgan Mine, from Chartres Towers district, from Hillgrove, from Hill End, and...Luning and Cuprite in Nevada; at Sulphur Bank mercury mine and at Lassen Peak, California. Sharp well-shaped...Breckinridge, Colorado. Excellent crystals at Butte, Montana. Green varieties have been found at Franklin, New
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
VOL 57, PP. 352-354 Sodium-zippeite from Geevor mine, St. Just, Cornwall ~ODIUM-ZIPPE1TE, Na4(UO2)6(SO4)3(OH)l...1976). In the course of several visits to Geevor mine during the early part of 1991, zippeite-like minerals...spindles. Associated minerals included gypsum, atacamite, chalcocite and brochantite. On some specimens...one of these, antlerite was observed as a powdery blue-green deposit on the matrix. 16 Level, Hanging Wall...was found intergrown with small aggregates of atacamite crystals. 17 Level, Peeth Lode. An area along
Journal (issue)
EDITOR: George Ryback, 42 Bell Road, Sittingbourne, Kent MElO -1-EB , (' .K. JOURl\jAL MAl\AGER: Harry W... Day. 83 Hollywood Lane. Frinusbury. Rochester, Kent ME3 RAT, U.K. EDITORIAL BOARD: R.F.. Bevins, Cardiff...Cuprite, variety chalcutrichite, from Fowey Consols mine (Lanescot section). Tywardreath. Cornwall. Field...and S.M. Ingram 23 Hannotome from Brownley Hill mine, Nenthead, Cumbria, England D.l. Green and l.R....England c. M. Leppinf{toll and D.I. Green 36 Atacamite, botallackite and cumengeite from Abersoch. Gwynedd
Journal (issue)
1980 ARIZONA! Articles The Hamburg mine and vicinity, Yuma County, Arizona by D. M. Shannon Famous mineral...mineral localities: the Red Cloud mine, Yuma County, Arizona............................................ ARIZONA-1 COVER: WULFENITE from the Red Cloud mine (see p. 141). This crystal, 5 cm across and nearly...Multiple Japan-law quartz twins from the Yankee Boy mine (1, 7, 33), by Richard A. Bideaux. Three specimens...an outcrop near the White Tail Deer mine in the Bisbee district. Wickenburgite (1,2, 80), by Sidney A
Journal (issue)
DeMark Malachite pseudomorphs from the Sir Dominick mine, Arkaroola, South Australia ......................Arizona 85740 COVER: GOLD from the Eureka mine, Tuolumne County, California. This specimen, about 7 inches...geologically and culturally, are not the center of metal mining that they once were, and are cer­ tainly not as...NE Albuquerque, New Mexico 87111 he Red Cloud mining d, situated in the Gal­ linas Mountains o f central...and copper mines located in the center o f the district. T The Red Cloud fluorite and copper mines are
Catalog/List
TREMOLITE page 13 AMAZON I IE page I No 60 ATACAMITE page 2 u J— 7 !■ Ki SILTSTONE R169 FRODINGHAM...ring ! New Minerals in this list; Aenigmatite,Atacamite from Ireland,Austinite, grey Calcite,pure Chrysoberyl...mass of black crystals, some Mount Malosa, Zomba District, free standing. ______ ______ Malawi Black crystal...Greenish , sparse, acicular micros in Penbenhy Croft Mine, St cavities in quartz_________________ Hilary Cornwall...ALAMOSITE Rawhide Mine, Mohave Ixl £9 'A x A £3 1 xA Pb SiO/3_____________ County. Arizona, U.S.A £5___
Journal (issue)
Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Joseph A. Mandarino...Articles Famous mineral localities: The Trepc=a mine, Stari Trg, Kosovo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...crystal cluster, 3.9 cm, on calcite, from Wessels mine, Kalahari Manganese Field, South Africa. This specimen...motels, at an average nightly room rate of 130. KENT ENGLAND morphology, simple chemical analysis, and...(Southgate) Williams. He attended the Michigan College of Mining and Technology (now Michigan Technological University)
Journal (issue)
R. Kampf Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County Arthur Roe Tucson, AZ Abraham Rosenzweig University...1935 n July 17,1935 Mark Bandy, the noted American mining engi­ neer and mineralogist, left his home in Redfield...It seemed like old times to meet the bunch at the mine. Nothing had changed much. I met Bronkie and was...having a lot of trouble with the equipment at the mine. So much of the equipment he doesn’t know what it...morning I was up a little after 7:00 and to the mine a lit­ tle after 8:00. March suggested that I go
Catalog/List
Correction to previous Sampleite No 359: This (blue masses in matrix the in a quantity of each. r:iajority...brown crusts on Hidalgoite (Gold Hill Mine Tooele County Utah USA) lxl f2.5O lx2 f5.OO 2x2 flO C263 AXINITE...masses (Colebrook Hill Mine,Roseberry, Tasmania) lxl fl.5O lx2 f3 2x2 f6.OO C264 blue green Morocco) BERZELIANITE...BERZELIANITE rich blue (_Bukov, Bohemia CSFR) 1 x 1/2 f3 lxl f5 acicular micros 3mm f4.5O metallic ...black to dark brown masses (Monumnt No 2 Mine Apache County 1/2 x 1/2 f3.5O lxl f5 C266 DEFERNITE 37
Journal (issue)
hematite, calcite, and quarts from the famous Florence Mine, Cumbria. These were contributed by Roy Starkey...but X-rayed); linarite prisms from the Britannia Mine (1051), associated with lanthanite; parnauite (1052/54)...quite photogenic; the alstonite from Fallowfield Mine is interesting since it is frosted with white crystals...Richard's best specimen is a tabular crystal of blue apatite, pierced by tourmaline, from North Goonbarrow...Goonbarrow in Cornwall (1071). From the Geevor Mine, Pendeen, Cornwall he has produced more green minerals
Journal (issue)
EUROPE SOUTH AFRICA The History of Ystrad Einion Mine J & A Wolters. Leeuwendaal 2, 3273 XD Westmaas...Schmitt. 812 lmperialCourt, Hartland, Wisconsin 53029 USA. Tel: (0414)3673674 U.S. $7 .50 inc. p & p per issue...Carharrick, Cornwall R. Morton.Dr. K.F.G. Hosking 22 Mining Methods on Lindale Moor 24 A. McFazdean My Garden...Showing the Boscawcn Diagonal Shaft at Botallack Mine. St. Just. Cornwall. Reproduced hy permission of...reconstructions are used to show the history of the Peak District from its geological beginnings; its use by early
Journal (issue)
articles of interest to mineralogists, collectors, and mining historians. Contributions or suggestions for articles...aragonite is commonly found in caves and on the walls of mine levels. A considerable amount of research has been...the material that is exposed during quarrying, mining, or by coastal erosion. This should not be taken...offset the fall in production from traditional mining operations. Whether this continues into the twenty...nature, concentrating on the minerals of a few mining districts or geographical areas. It would be difficult
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Gold Localitv Peru Broken Hill Australia Crow Hill Mine, Cornwall Kildonan Burn Sicilv Elba Glen Strathfarrat...Scotland Ow A2 Price £1 Coldberrv Mine Corsica A2 A2 £2 sop Nevada, USA Unknown The Knipe, S. Scotland...Rocks Cornwall Hinqston Down, Cornwall Smallcleugh Mine, Nenthead A2 A2 A2 A2 A2 A2 A2 A2 A2 A2 A2 £1...Nenthead A3 A3 A3 £3 £1.50 £2 Haxis, Arizona, USA A3 £1 A3 A3 £1 £3 A3 A3 A3 A3 £1 £1 £1 £1.50...Herodsfoot Cornwall Bournonite Bedford Mine Devon Arsenoovrite Colorado USA Enaraite Minas Gerais Brazil Pyrrhotite
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occurrences. These localities have been listed by county; and, strictly for convenience, the list has been...None­ theless, with the aid of a good state or county map, plus local inquiries, the list could be helpful...that do not permit collecting for various reasons, mining operations that have recently shut down but whose...micromounting PENINSULA Wayne County International Salt C o . mine—Detroit Alpena County National G y p s u m...dolomite, marcasite, pyrite, quartz, sphalerite Eaton County anhydrite, carnallite (r), celestite, dolomite
Report (issue)
(CaBSiO4OH) vesicle filling from a basaltic Houghton County lava flow. Small specks of native copper occur...eventually led to one of the biggest and most important "mining booms" in this country's first century. Despite... the 1845 discovery of the Cliff Mine ( first in the world to mine native copper as its sole product)...instilled confidence in North Country mining and initiated the modern mining era. Choice 'Lake Copper' furnished...never documented by geologists working in the district during its decades of maximum activity. Hence
 
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