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


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Copper
Formula:Cu
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Copper data
Locality Data:Click here to view Silver Bow Mine, Butte Mining District (Summit Valley Mining District), Silver Bow County, Montana, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:176834
Long-form Identifier:1:3:176834:3
GUID (UUID V4):4a940d06-7d51-4967-95e2-b601357925a6
Nearest other occurrences of Copper
0.6km (0.4 miles) ā“˜J.I.C. Mine, Butte Mining District (Summit Valley Mining District), Silver Bow County, Montana, USA
0.7km (0.4 miles) ā“˜Rarus Mine, Butte Mining District (Summit Valley Mining District), Silver Bow County, Montana, USA
0.9km (0.6 miles) ā“˜Berkeley Pit, Butte Mining District (Summit Valley Mining District), Silver Bow County, Montana, USA
1.1km (0.7 miles) ā“˜Belmont Mine, Butte Mining District (Summit Valley Mining District), Silver Bow County, Montana, USA
1.1km (0.7 miles) ā“˜West Colusa Mine, Butte Mining District (Summit Valley Mining District), Silver Bow County, Montana, USA
1.3km (0.8 miles) ā“˜Anaconda Mine, Butte Mining District (Summit Valley Mining District), Silver Bow County, Montana, USA
1.4km (0.9 miles) ā“˜High Ore Mine, Butte Mining District (Summit Valley Mining District), Silver Bow County, Montana, USA
1.7km (1.0 miles) ā“˜Tropic Mine, Butte Mining District (Summit Valley Mining District), Silver Bow County, Montana, USA
1.8km (1.1 miles) ā“˜Bell Mine, Butte Mining District (Summit Valley Mining District), Silver Bow County, Montana, USA
1.9km (1.2 miles) ā“˜Wake-up-Jim Mine, Walkerville, Butte Mining District (Summit Valley Mining District), Silver Bow County, Montana, 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...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 (volume)
Director Bulletin 955-E FLUORSPAR PROSPECTS OP MONTANA BY CLYDE P. ROSS Contributions to economic geology...near Anaconda, Deer Lodge County-_______________ Silver Bow prospect, Silver Bow County__________________________...ILLUSTRATIONS Page PLATE 18. A, General view of East Butte from the south; B, View down Sage Creek from the..._______ 28. Geologic and topographic map of the Silver Bow fluorspar 209 prospect--...---------------...--- In pocket FIGURE 6. Index map of part of Montana, showing the mapped fluorsparbearing areas and
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WASHINGTON May 5, 2007 9:00 am to 5:00 pm Clark County P. U. D. Building 1200 Fort Vancouver Way Vancouver...Occurrences in Montana Part I Western Montana Larry B. French HC 46, Box 7204 Miles City, Montana 59301 The...Stateā€. Rudy Tchernich (1992) provided a list of Montana locations in ā€œZeolites of the Worldā€. The author...in petrographic specimens. Analcime Beaverhead County: Igneous rocks, volcanic tuff of the Grasshopper...in a single specimen (Pearson, 1989). Jefferson County: southeast of Helena - Benson Ranch - occurs in
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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 .....:........................................
Report (volume)
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...See Bauxite and Hallpysite. Asbestos. Tallapoosa County, with corundum deposits near Dudleyville; not found
Journal (issue)
BUTTE, MONTANA Butte, Montana Minerals, Mines and History The Mineralogical Record Volume 33 ā€¢ Number...crystal cluster, 3 cm across, From the Leonard mine, Butte, Montana. Frederick H. Pough collection; Jeff Scovil...ā€œThe Story of Montana: The Treasure of Butte Hill and Development of the Great Copper Industryā€ by C...volume 33, Januaryā€“February, 2002 Contents Butte, Montana: Minerals, Mines and History By Robert E. Jenkins...Jenkins & Jerry A. Lorengo Ed McDole: ā€œMontana Mineral Kingā€ By Richard A. Bideaux Whatā€™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 sulļ¬des and sulfosalts like bornite,...rank among the ļ¬nest 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
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 Ā© 1981 by the University of Washington Press
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....................................... 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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Western townships in general. Butte, Montana, in 1885, was a mining camp with a floating population...lawless days of Butte in 1865 and 1866; it deals extensively with mining magnates and mining activities and...and offers interesting sidelights on numerous Butte enterprises of a general nature. Particularly valuable...downtown and residential areas, from the days when Butte had only a scattered few wooden huts, in 1875, to...over any line.ā€ā€™ MONTANA JACKET PHOTOGRAPHS COURTESY HISTORICAL SOCIETY, HELENA, MONTANA Digitized by
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of this book. Mining Cultures Mining; Cultures Men, Women, and Leisure in Butte, 1914ā€”41 Mary Murphy...and Drinking Daughters: Gender and Prohibition in Butte, MonĀ¬ tanaā€ in American Quarterly 46 (June 1994):...ā€œMessenger of the New Age: Station KGIR in Butteā€ in Montana Magazine of Western History 39 (Autumn 1989):...ation Data Murphy, Mary. Mining cultures : men, women, and leisure in Butte, 1914-41 / Mary Murphy. p... 1. Butte (Mont.)ā€”History. 2. Butte (Mont.)ā€”Social life and customs. 3. Copper mines and miningā€”Montanaā€”Butteā€”
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Washington, DC 20013 pohwatp@si.edu Bornite Dzhezkazgan Mine, Dzhezkazgan Karagandy Province, Kazakhstan S ...rarity is bornite, a common mineral found in many copper deposits as massive lumps. The scarcity of bornite...collector community, especially the keen collector of copper minerals. The chemical formula for bornite is Cu5FeS4...metallic luster. On fresh surfaces, borniteā€™s color is copper-red to pinchbeck-brown, but it will quickly tarnish...found that pinchbeck is the name of an alloy of copper and zinc that is used as imitation gold, so I assume
Report (issue)
BIBLIOGRAPHY OF U. S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PUBLICATIONS ON COPPER, (To January 1,1952) By Gwendolyn W. Luttrell ...BIBLIOGRAPHY OF U. S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PUBLICATIONS ON COPPER, (To January 1,1952) By Gwendolyn W. Luttrell ................................................ Montana ... ..................................................................... Western United States mining districts ....................... World distribution... BIBLIOGRAPHY OF U. S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PUBLICATIONS ON COPPER, (To January 1,1952) PURPOSE AND SCOPE This bibliography
Book (edition)
YEAR 1687"ā€”DAVID T. DAY, CHIEF OF THE DIVISION OF MINING STATISTICS AND TECHNOLOGY WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT...and consump tion, or better and cheaper means of mining, extraction, and convey ance to market, may in...correspondence has been carried on with geologists, mining engineers, and other local authorities, and various...mmed at Broken Arrow aud Trout creek, in Sc. Clair county. The strata in this field are more faulted und...prong of Canoe creek, in St. Clair county, to Ha\sop creek, in Bibb county, a distance of 60 miles. Down to
Report (issue)
and Mineral Resources Maps of the Butte 1o x 2Ā° Quadrangle, Montana AVAILABILITY OF BOOKS AND MAPS OF...Virginia-National Center, Rm. 1C402, 12201 Sunrise Valley Dr. ā€¢ SALT LAKE CITY, Utah-Federal Bldg., Rm...and Mineral Resources Maps of the Butte 1o x 2Ā° Quadrangle, Montana By JAMES E. ELLIOTT, CHARLES M. TRAUTWEIN...and mineral resources maps of the Butte 1Ā°x2Ā° quadrangle, Montana I by James E. Elliott ... [et al.]...Mines and mineral resources-Montana-Butte Region. 2. Geology-Montana-Butte Region. 3. Conterminous United
Report (issue)
218pp., 1905. Economic geology of the Bingham mining district, Utah, by J. M. Boutwell, with a section on...geology and ore deposits of the Coeur d'Alene district, Idaho, by F. L. Ransome and F. C. Calkins, 203...Georgetown quadrangle (together with the Empire district), Colo., by J. E. Spurr and G. H. Garrey, with...361pp., 1910. Geology and ore deposits of the Butte district, Mont., by W. H. Weed, 262 pp., 1912. Geology...Geology and ore deposits of the Breckenridge district, Colo., by F. L. Ransome, 187 pp., 1911. Geology and
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
pohwatp@si.edu ENARGITE Longfellow Mine, Red Mountain District, San Juan County, Colorado Are all things beautiful...north orebody of the Longfellow mine, Red Mountain district, San Juan County, Colorado. Specimen is 2.5 cm...orthorhombic.) Enargite and luzonite are ores of copper, with enargite being the more common of the two...Figure 2. Enargite trilling from Butte, Silver Bow County, Montana. Twin is 5 mm across and is on the... lustrous enargite crystals from Butte, Silver Bow County, Montana. The specimen is 5 cm across. William
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of Western townships in general. Butte, Montana, in 1885, was a mining camp with a floating population...lawless days of Butte in 1865 and 1866; it deals extensively with mining magnates and mining activities and...and offers interesting sidelights on numerous Butte enterprises of a general nature. Particularly valuable...downtown and residential areas, from the days when Butte had only a scattered few wooden huts, in 1875, to...JACKET PHOTOGRAPHS COURTESY MONTANA HISTORICAL SOCIETY, HELENA, MONTANA Digitized by the Internet
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OF THE COPPER KINGS , , , Collection of S mithers, Photographer, Butte Butte, Montana, in r 8...first riches of silver or suspected its greater riches of copper The War of the Copper Kings BUILDERS...BUILDERS OF BUTTE AND WOLVES OF WALL STREET by C. B. GLASSCOCK , Ignorance plays the chief part among men...perhaps, should be named the Historical Society of Montana at Helena, Mr. David Hilger, librarian, and his...They opened to research the files of scores of Montana newspapers of the decade from 1895 to 1905 which
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Western side of Stapleton Gulch in the Argenta district. The Stapleton workings are visible in the lower...of the center below the crest of the hill. in Montana Unless otherwise noted, all photographs by the... CHRISTOPHER S. TUCKER PO Box 22575 Billings, Montana 59104 tuckerj@mcn.net W ith the variety of colors...wulfenite; however, they seldom have specimens from Montana in their collections. When one thinks of wulfenite...mountains of western Montana. Figure 1. Wulfenite, with vanadinite, 8 mm across, Blackhawk mine, Radersburg district
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.
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Lucien Beckner of Louisville, Ky., U. M. Sahinen of Butte, Mont., Gilbert O. Raasch of Urbana, 111., Nancy...thrilled to the sight of mounted in gold or or silver, some lovely gem, against lying a background...hardness of less than 2V^ on Mohs' nail will copper coin is mark on scale usually leave a scratch...though, that malachite, an ore of the heavy metal copper, or hematite, an ore of iron, will be heavy in...(aluminum oxide), carbonates such as malachite (copper carbonate), phosphates such as apatite, and silicates
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
[Northeastern University] at 11:57 17 November 2014 Husky Mine, Elsa, Yukon Territory, Canada T he ruby silvers...informal family is polybasite, a relatively common silver ore mineral that is rare as fine specimens. Although...have been available in recent years from the Husky mine, Yukon Territory, Canada. Consequently, in keeping...this yearā€™s Tucson Gem and Mineral Show, a Husky mine polybasite has been nominated as this issueā€™s Connoisseurā€™s...essentially a silver antimony sulfide in which copper occurs in substitution for silver in amounts up
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Montana, Treasure State for the Crystal Mineral Collector By GERALD J. NAVRATIL Bex 70, RFD 7, Middleburg...crystal mineral localities within the state of Montana. Quite accurately the state has been officially...mineralminded public. The well-publicized Butte copper district has been ignored since the writer feels...known. Amcnnpijiite: In the Emery Mining district (Powell County) the mineral is found in wellformed...Crevasse Mountain Mining district near Jardine (Park County). At the Kennebec mine in the Crevasse Mountain
Report (volume)
colors. Impurities, such as iron, chromium, and copper, also tint the minerals. Care should be taken in...Del Norte County; Trinity River, Trinity County; Spanish Creek and Gopher Hill, Plumas County; Placerville...Dorado County; Cherokee Flats, Yankee Hill,and Oroville, Butte County; French Corral, Nevada County; Indian...Indian Gulch and Volcano, Amador County; and Alpine Creek, Tulare County. Other western localities are:...Diamond Basin, Ada County, Idaho; Curry County, Oreg.; and Nelson Hill, near Glacier County, Mont. The Great
 
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