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Enargite from
East Colusa Mine, Butte Mining District (Summit Valley Mining District), Silver Bow County, Montana, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Enargite
Formula:Cu3AsS4
Comments:The East Colusa Mine is important as being the locality of the only type species found at Butte.
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Pyriteā“˜12 photos of Enargite associated with Pyrite at this locality.
Quartzā“˜3 photos of Enargite associated with Quartz at this locality.
Chalcociteā“˜1 photo of Enargite associated with Chalcocite at this locality.
Colusiteā“˜1 photo of Enargite associated with Colusite at this locality.
Tennantite Subgroup1 photo of Enargite associated with Tennantite Subgroup at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Enargite data
Locality Data:Click here to view East Colusa Mine, Butte Mining District (Summit Valley Mining District), Silver Bow County, Montana, USA
Photo GalleryView Gallery (11 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:31483
Long-form Identifier:1:3:31483:3
GUID (UUID V4):0fdcfbfb-be5b-40ae-ad66-cb58bc6ecf2a
Nearest other occurrences of Enargite
0.2km (0.1 miles) ā“˜Leonard Mine, Butte Mining District (Summit Valley Mining District), Silver Bow County, Montana, USA
0.3km (0.2 miles) ā“˜Berkeley Pit, Butte Mining District (Summit Valley Mining District), Silver Bow County, Montana, USA
0.3km (0.2 miles) ā“˜West Colusa Mine, Butte Mining District (Summit Valley Mining District), Silver Bow County, Montana, USA
0.4km (0.2 miles) ā“˜Alexander Scott Mine, Butte Mining District (Summit Valley Mining District), Silver Bow County, Montana, USA
0.4km (0.3 miles) ā“˜Mountain Chief Mine, Butte Mining District (Summit Valley Mining District), Silver Bow County, Montana, USA
0.5km (0.3 miles) ā“˜Tramway Mine, Butte Mining District (Summit Valley Mining District), Silver Bow County, Montana, USA
0.7km (0.5 miles) ā“˜Rarus Mine, Butte Mining District (Summit Valley Mining District), Silver Bow County, Montana, USA
0.8km (0.5 miles) ā“˜Berkeley Mine, Butte Mining District (Summit Valley Mining District), Silver Bow County, Montana, USA
0.9km (0.6 miles) ā“˜Tuolumne Mine, Butte Mining District (Summit Valley Mining District), Silver Bow County, Montana, USA
0.9km (0.6 miles) ā“˜Mountain View Mine, Butte Mining District (Summit Valley Mining District), Silver Bow County, Montana, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Butte, Montana Minerals, Mines, and History Robert E. Jenkins 6 Columbus Circle Newark, Delaware 19702...of 130 mineral species have been recorded from Butte. Specimens of copper sulļ¬des and sulfosalts like...digenite, djurleite, and enargite rank among the ļ¬nest in the world. The best of Butte pyrite compares with...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 ā€¢ Number...crystal cluster, 3 cm across, From the Leonard mine, Butte, Montana. Frederick H. Pough collection; Jeff Scovil...painted to illustrate ā€œThe Story of Montana: The Treasure of Butte Hill and Development of the Great Copper...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)
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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
November 2014 Covellite Summitville, Rio Grande County, Colorado Two minerals are typically formed when...periods when some chance discovery in an active mine makes them briefly available to collectors. Chalcocite...as pseudomorphs after chalcopyrite, chalcocite, enargite, arsenopyrite, sphalerite, and bornite. Excellent...pseudomorphs after covellite are well known from Butte, Montana. A comprehensive description of the fundamental...such localities as the Loudville mine, Easthampton, Hampshire County, Massachusetts; Mineral Hill, WakeFigure
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Accepted Manuscript Two-event lode-ore deposition at Butte, USA: 40Ar/39Ar and U-Pb documentation of Ag-Au-polymetallic... M.J. Kunk, Two-event lode-ore deposition at Butte, USA: 40Ar/39Ar and U-Pb documentation of Ag-Au-polymetallic...journal pertain. Two-event lode-ore deposition at Butte, USA: 40Ar/39Ar and U-Pb documentation of Ag-Au-polymetallic...U.S. Geological Survey, MS 926-A, 12201 Sunrise Valley Drive, Reston, VA 20192 rmcaleer@usgs.gov c U.S...for world-class deposits of the Butte mining district, Montana, USA, is deep pre-Main Stage porphyry
Report (issue)
74 GEOLOGY AND ORE DEPOSITS OF THE BUTTE DISTRICT, MONTANA BY \Ā„ALTER I-IAllVEY vVEED WASHINGTON......................... ~ . . . . Epoch of gold mining ................................................. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Epoch o'f silver mining ........Ā· ......... Ā·................................. ~.............. Development of copper mining. ~ ..Ā· . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ................................... Future of the district .................................. Ā·.........
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
PARAGENESIS BUTTE OF THE ORE DISTRICT, MINERALS IN THE MONTANA. JAMES C. RAY.1 INTRODUCTION...materialrecentlycollectedby the writer in the Butte District. I am deeplyindebtedto the managersand geologists...Messrs. N.H. Emmons and E. A. Hewitt, of the North Butte Copper'MiningCo.; and Mr. Case,superintendent of...Speculator, Berkeley,Silver Bow, Elm Orlu, Gagnon, MountainView, Leonard,Belleof Butte,FractionLease(Clark...followingmines: Leonard,Pilot-Butte,Badger, Elm Orlu, East Colusa,West Colusa,Alec Scott,Silver Bow, Pennsylvania,
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Structural Geologic Evolution of the Butte District, Montana Robert A. Houstonā€ ,* 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...tilting in the hanging walls of the Continental, East Ridge, and Rocker normal faults. Stratigraphic relationships
Book (volume)
ae TONITE TN263. Au. =American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, V.2 and Petroleum Engineers Ore...Inst! itute i an Americ ie Lye 2 of llurgical, Mining, Meta m Engineers and Petroleu Ā© f the Ore deposiits...(1933) AIME TRANSACTIONS VOLUME AIME TRANSACTIONS MINE PLANT VOLUME 112, MILLING METHODS (1933) (1934)...AND ZINC (1936) 134, MILLING METHODs 141, METAL MINING (1939) (1937-40) BLAST FURNACE, COKE OVEN AND...AIME TRANSACTIONS VOLUME 178, MINING GEOLOGY AIME TRANSACTIONS 181, MINING, INDUSTRIAL MINERALS, EDUCATION
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Ed McDole ā€œMontana Mineral Kingā€ Richard A. Bideaux 710 W. Bangalor Dr. Oro Valley, Arizona 85737 In...superb (if not always colorful) minerals from the mining camps of the American West. He collected many of...miners, doing business out of his hotel room in Butte, Montana, or the trunk of his trademark Lincoln. Collectors...of Boulder, Colorado wrote: In the fall of 1955 Butte was an exciting city. The price of copper was high...miners were arriving daily from every mining camp in the west. Butte was known then as the capital of the
Book (edition)
OX5 1 GB, UK 225 Wyman Street, Waltham, MA 02451, USA Copyright Ā© 2015, 2008 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved...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...Sn-sulfide) after light exposure is coated with finest silver grains and develops a much higher reflectance (right
Report (volume)
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Catalog/List
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