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Copper (commodity) from
Granite Mountain Mine, Butte Mining District (Summit Valley Mining District), Silver Bow County, Montana, USA


Classification
Commodity:Copper (commodity)
Data
Commodity Data:Click here to view Copper (commodity) data
Locality Data:Click here to view Granite Mountain Mine, Butte Mining District (Summit Valley Mining District), Silver Bow County, Montana, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1161883
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1161883:2
GUID (UUID V4):d4347010-5d66-4885-8e5c-68b833de739b
Nearest other deposits of Copper (commodity)
0.3km (0.2 miles) Unnamed Copper; Silver and Gold Occurrence (MRDS - 10245867), Butte Mining District (Summit Valley Mining District), Silver Bow County, Montana, USA
1.0km (0.6 miles) Montana Resources (Berkeley Neck; Kelly; Copper Moly Dome; Badger-Elm; Continental area; Continental West), Butte Mining District (Summit Valley Mining District), Silver Bow County, Montana, USA
1.1km (0.7 miles) Mountain Consolidated Mine, Butte Mining District (Summit Valley Mining District), Silver Bow County, Montana, USA
1.1km (0.7 miles) Kelley Mine, Butte Mining District (Summit Valley Mining District), Silver Bow County, Montana, USA
1.3km (0.8 miles) Tramway Mine, Butte Mining District (Summit Valley Mining District), Silver Bow County, Montana, USA
1.4km (0.9 miles) Leonard Mine, Butte Mining District (Summit Valley Mining District), Silver Bow County, Montana, USA
1.6km (1.0 miles) Phase II-Moly Dome Prospect, Butte Mining District (Summit Valley Mining District), Silver Bow County, Montana, USA
1.6km (1.0 miles) Phases I-Berkeley Neck Prospect, Butte Mining District (Summit Valley Mining District), Silver Bow County, Montana, USA
1.7km (1.1 miles) Cambers Mine, Butte Mining District (Summit Valley Mining District), Silver Bow County, Montana, USA
2.0km (1.3 miles) Silver Bow Mine, Butte Mining District (Summit Valley Mining District), Silver Bow County, Montana, USA
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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...Plata meaning “gold and silver,” and the state seal with its representation of mining tools clearly proclaim...Montana’s mining origins. Montana’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 (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 .....:........................................
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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...“The Story of Montana: The Treasure of Butte Hill and Development of the Great Copper Industry” by C...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:
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Butte, Montana Minerals, Mines, and History Robert E. Jenkins 6 Columbus Circle Newark, Delaware 19702...mineral species have been recorded from Butte. Specimens of copper sulfides and sulfosalts like bornite,...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
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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...especial interest or value. Some minerals, such as the copper ores of Pennsylvania, are included in the list...because they occur in sufficient quantity to warrant mining for their usual products but because they furnish...museum specimens. Some mineral aggregates, as clay, granite, limestone, sand, and sandstone, are included,
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...especial interest or value. Some minerals, such as the copper ores of Pennsylvania, are included in the list
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. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 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 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Report (volume)
the Eastern Pioneer Mountains, Beaverhead County, Montana U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 1766 Mineral...the Eastern Pioneer Mountains, Beaverhead County, Montana By R. C. PEARSON, B. R. BERGER, H. E. KAUFMANN...the Eastern Pioneer Mountains, Beaverhead County, Montana. (U.S. Geological Survey bulletin ; 1766) Bibliography:...resources-Montana-Pioneer Mountains. 2. Oredeposits-Montana-Pioneer Mountains. 3. Geology-Montana-Pioneer...Geochemistry 12 Mineral resources 19 Setting 19 Mining districts in the eastern Pioneer Mountains 19 Resource
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organization is carrying on for the direct advancement of mining interests throughout the country than can readily...the Survey's work in economic geology. GOLD AND SILVER. NOTES ON THE PLACER DEPOSITS OF GREATERVILLE,...latter part of March, 1909, while engaged in a mining reconnaissance of the Patagonia and Nogales quadrangles...the Santa Rita Mountains, about 3 miles from the summit of Melendreth Pass, whose elevation is 5,850 feet...to Cienega Creek, thence following south up that valley to the station, a distance of 6 miles. A trail
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Isotopes of the Flooded Underground Mine Workings of Butte, Montana CHRISTOPHER H. GAMMONS,1,† DEAN M....Engineering, Montana Tech of The University of Montana, 1300 West Park Street, Butte, Montana 59701 2 Department...Applications, 200 Technology Way, Butte, Montana 59701 Abstract Over a century of mining and smelting of the world-class...world-class porphyry lode ore deposit at Butte, Montana, has resulted in extensive environmental damage...most acidic mining pit lakes, Butte is host to over 16,000 km of flooded underground mine workings. Of
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*# % «•*.*» «(& FIRE BRIMSTONE The North Butte Mining Disaster of 1917 MICHAEL PUNKE m$ ' J k^PfS...Sparked than two thousand Granite Mountain the just before by feet mining disaster midnight on a...Brimstone Butte, is compelling in its own rjght, also tells a far broader story. Montana, on the...radicalism both It was a powder keg lacking only mine fire would ignite strikes, political witch hunts...Brimstone Fire and Brimstone The North Butte Mining Disaster of 1917 Michael Punke ^Ihyperioni
Report (issue)
description of the geology, mining history, and production of the major gold-mining districts in 21 States...relations ---------------------------History of gold mining and trends in production_ J\labama -----------...--------------Cleburne County ----------~-----------------­ Tallapoosa County --------------------------Alaska...-Cook Inlet-Susitna region --------------------Copper River region -------------------------Kuskokwim...------------------Cochise County -----------------------------Gila County --------------------------------Greenlee
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INTERIOR GEOLOGICAL SURVEY MINERAL RESOURCES OF ELKO COUNTY, NEVADA By Roscoe M. Smith Prepared in cooperation...Acknowledgment -Mining districts Commodities Production Descriptions of mining districts . Alder district-Aura district...district -Beaver district Black Mountain district Bootstrap district Burner district Burns Basin district--...-Carlin district Cave Creek district ----Charleston district_--Coal Mine district~ Contact district Cornucopia...Cornucopia district - -Corral Creek district - Decoy district Delano district Delker districtDivide district
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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
Book (edition)
who have been engaged in the study of our great mining regions, especially in the West, have laid the...now in the active practice of the profession of mining engi neering. J. F. K. DECEMBER, 1899. NO TEXT...125-129; Marquette district, 129-136; Menominee dis trict, 136-139; Penokee-Gogebic district, 139-143; Vermilion...11, Pilot Knob, Mo., 155-157; Example lla, Iron Mountain, Mo., 157, 158; analyses of hematites, 159.. 114-159...ores, 183-188 160-188 CHAPTER IV.— COPPER. Table of analyses of copper ores, 189 ; Example 16, continued
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___________________ -_-----Lode and placer gold deposits, Mohave County _______________________ _ California ________________________...studies at Bodie ___________ _ Mother Lode, Amador County __________ _ Tertiary gravels, Nevada City area..._ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Silver and copper in McEJmo Canyon ______ Copper and silver in Precambrian rocks...Geology of Hahns Peak and vicinity _______ Lookout Mountain area, eastern San Juan Mountains ________ _ _..._ _ _ _ orthwestern San Juan Mountains ________ Silver Cliff- Rosita district_ ____________ Georgia ____
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of metallic values from the ores of copper, zinc, lead, gold, silver, graphite, molybdenum, mercury, etcetera...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
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OPERATIONAL, AND ECONOMIC REVIEW OF UTAH'S MINING INDUSTRY By Utah Mining Association 918 Kearns Building Salt...available to give Utah citizens an account of their mining industry. Most of the available publications were...segments of mining activity. We have attempted in the following pages to discuss mining in all phases...complete a picture of the mineral deposits and of the mining activity in Utah as time and effort permit. In...the person interested in, but unacquainted with mining, mineral processing, and mineral economics, could
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the Barker Quadrangle, Little Belt Mountains, Montana G E 0 L 0 G I CAL SURVEY P RO FE S S I 0 N A...the Barker Quadrangle, Little Belt Mountains, Montana By IRVING J. WITKIND GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL...PROFESSIONAL PAPER 752 A laccolithic complex in central Montana is examined in detail with special attention given...igneous rocks) the intrusions) and the related silver-lead-zinc deposits UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT..._________________________ _ Porphyry of Clendennin Mountain _____ _ VVolf Porphyry ____________________ _
Report (issue)
the Virginia City mining district), Madison and Beaverhead Counties, southwest Montana: Mineral-resource...Muddy mining district Blacktail mining district Cherry Creek mining district Chinatown mining district...Prairie mining district Medicine Lodge mining district Monida mining district Pony mining district Red Bluff...Bluff mining district Revenue mining district Ruby Mountains mining district Sheridan mining district...district Silver Star mining district Virginia City mining district Mapleton mine Browns Gulch area Alameda-Cornucopia-U
Report (volume)
Director, Montana Bureau of Mines and Geology, Butte, Mont. BA Atomic Energy Commission, Butte Suboffice...Suboffice, Butte, Mont. D Geological Survey office, Room 468 New Customhouse, Denver, Colo. DA Atomic Energy...(387, 631) Cressman, E. R., Geology of the Dry Valley quadrangle, Idaho: TEI-258 Aug. 25, 1952. IM, SL...of the Shinarump No. 1 uranium mine, Seven Mile Canyon area, Grand County, Utah: TEI-287, Jan. 11, 1954...Results of exploration at the Old Leyden coal mine, Jefferson County, Colo.: TEM-292, Mar. 30, 1953. D, GJ.
Report (issue)
101 PRICE $3.00 AUGUST 1973 CONTENTS Page County Maps Showing Location of Operators: Beaver . ..... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Summit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... . . . . 66 Page Commodities and Operators by County: Beaver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Summit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...oil and gas industry as well as those engaged in mining activities of Utah. The directory is a general
Report (issue)
_________________ ___. Nevada ___________ Elko County. - ______ ... _ Star mine, Harrison Pass _____ ____ Pag« 59...63 Good Hope barite mine, Tuscarora Range _____ _ ._. ________ Humboldt County Golconda manganese-tungsten...County__-__--__----__-.___-_-__ Barite deposits, Battle Mountain area.. California-Nevada Barite Co. 63 64 64...Ltd., mine...... --_--______.______ Lincoln County__-__-----_-----_-----___ Tern Piute district.........district____ .________..__ Nevada Scheelite mine.. _ ______ Hooper No. 2 mine __ _____ _ _ Yankee Girl mine_______________
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Structural Geologic Evolution of the Butte District, Montana Robert A. Houston†,* and John H. Dilles...Bldg., Corvallis, Oregon 97331 Abstract The Butte district contains two porphyry Cu-Mo deposits and the...and folding in southwest Montana. New geologic mapping of the Butte district reveals three distinct episodes...that are limited to the northwest part of the district and synchronous with the eruption of the Lowland...inclusion data indicate that exposures of the Butte Granite, which hosts mineralization, crystallized at
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and 1916. Bulletin No. 10. Value €If Ores . . Mine Sampling and the Commercial Bulletin No. 11. Descriptive...Geological Survey and in the journals dealing with mining and geology, but this material is widely scattered...and Mining Journa1. M. & S. P.-Mining and Scientific Press. 2 INTRODUCTION M. & E. W .-Mining and...Min.-Mines and Minerals. S. L. M. R.-Salt Lake Mining Review. In order to give proper credit to the courses...districts, under the general bibliography for the county or state and under the discussion of a particular
 
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