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


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Gold
Formula:Au
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Gold data
Locality Data:Click here to view Travona Mine, Butte Mining District (Summit Valley Mining District), Silver Bow County, Montana, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:495818
Long-form Identifier:1:3:495818:5
GUID (UUID V4):10729d4a-7749-4075-9a38-5fae461d9e83
Nearest other occurrences of Gold
0.2km (0.2 miles) Missoula Gulch Placer (Summit Valley), Butte Mining District (Summit Valley Mining District), Silver Bow County, Montana, USA
0.5km (0.3 miles) Basin Bell Mine (Latsch Mine), Cataract Mining District (Comet Mining District; Basin Mining District), Jefferson County, Montana, USA
1.2km (0.8 miles) Silver King Mine, Butte Mining District (Summit Valley Mining District), Silver Bow County, Montana, USA
1.4km (0.9 miles) Gagnon Mine, Butte Mining District (Summit Valley Mining District), Silver Bow County, Montana, USA
1.7km (1.0 miles) Otisco Mine, Butte Mining District (Summit Valley Mining District), Silver Bow County, Montana, USA
1.7km (1.1 miles) Green Copper Mine, Butte Mining District (Summit Valley Mining District), Silver Bow County, Montana, USA
1.7km (1.1 miles) Anselmo Mine, Butte Mining District (Summit Valley Mining District), Silver Bow County, Montana, USA
1.7km (1.1 miles) Lizzie Mine, Butte Mining District (Summit Valley Mining District), Silver Bow County, Montana, USA
1.9km (1.2 miles) Belmont Mine, Butte Mining District (Summit Valley Mining District), Silver Bow County, Montana, USA
2.0km (1.3 miles) Poulin Mine (Stella Mine; Buffalo 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 sulfides and sulfosalts like...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:
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Montana Mineral Locality Index Downloaded by [University of Nebraska, Lincoln] at 20:00 09 April 2015...STATE, Montana is rich in mineral and gemstone localities. The state motto, Ora y Plata meaning “gold and...and silver,” and the state seal with its representation of mining tools clearly proclaim Montana’s mining...Montana’s production of copper, coal, gold, lead, manganese, phosphate, silver, talc, vermiculite, and zinc is...published describing the occurrence, collecting, mining, and cutting of the two state gemstones. Figure
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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.”’ MONTANA JACKET PHOTOGRAPHS COURTESY HISTORICAL SOCIETY, HELENA, MONTANA Digitized by
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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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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)
MANGANESE AT BUTTE, MONTANA. By J. T. PARDEE. INTRODUCTION. The great increase in the value of manganese...attention to the manganiferous gangue of the silver-zinc lodes at Butte, Mont., a material which, although formerly...published reports describing the ore deposits of Butte, supplemented by a brief field examination in August...richer of these two grades so far reported by the mining companies, though not wholly satisfactory, by no...manganiferous material below the oxidized zone at Butte consists of rhodochrosite and rhodonite, the carbonate
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
RENO H. CHARACTER BUTTE VEINS. S^LES. OF.OUTCROPS. The outcropsof the Butte copperveins are indistinctand...debris is found on the flat area east from the Silver Bow and Leonard mines, where it is known to be as...found in the easternpart of the district in the Modoc and Silver Bow mines, but not in sufficient SUPERFICIAL... SUPERFICIAL ALTERATION OF THE BUTTE VEINS. 17 quantitiesto constitutean ore. A peculiar occurrenceof...occurrenceof copper silicate ore in the Bullwhacker mine will be described later in this paper. ' Taking
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mithers, Photographer, Butte Butte, Montana, in r 8 72, after its significant gold placers had been exhausted...and it had not yet attained its first riches of silver or suspected its greater riches of copper The... The War of the Copper Kings BUILDERS OF BUTTE AND WOLVES OF WALL STREET by C. B. GLASSCOCK , Ignorance...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
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)
Virginia-503 National Center, Rm. 1C402,12201 Sunrise Valley Dr. SALT LAKE CITY, Utah-Federal Bldg., Rm. 8105... Chapter E Gold in Porphyry Copper Systems Gold in the Bingham District, Utah By EDWIN W. TOOKER Gold in the...the Butte District, Montana By EDWIN W. TOOKER Gold in the Ely (Robinson) Copper District, White Pine...Pine County, Nevada By LAURENCE P.JAMES The Tomboy-Minnie Gold Deposits at Copper Canyon, Lander County...GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 1857 GEOLOGY AND RESOURCES OF GOLD IN THE UNITED STATES DANIEL R. SHAWE and ROGER P
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...fluid inclusion data indicate that exposures of the Butte Granite, which hosts mineralization, crystallized
Report (issue)
Principal Gold-Producing Districts of the United States By A. H. KOSCHMANN and M. H. BERGENDAHL GEOLOGICAL...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...------------------Cochise County -----------------------------Gila County --------------------------------Greenlee
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...189-194; Spenceville, Cal., 195, 196; Example 17, Butte, Mont.; 197-203; Gilpin Co., Colo., 203, 204; Llano...CHAPTER VI.— LEAD AND ZINC. Example 24, Upper Miss. Valley, 233-237; Washington Co., Mo., 238, 239; Livingston
Journal (issue)
this explain why Hydroseals Tee IN THE MAJOR MINING PUMPS PROTECTED CENTERS OF THE WORLD Most...machines like the “Caterpillar” Diesel products mining throughout the world. Tractors. Bulldozers, Motor...repiling bauxite and loading trucks for Reynolds Mining Corporation, near Hurricane Creek, Arkansas. CATERPILLAR...JJ SYD)! te up in a wooden pail. Missouri lead mine about 1890. —_—— ; eee if atOT ace | | Horse...fashioned blasting methods and other inefficient mining techniques have become so drill pattern and loading
Journal (issue)
faceting & lapidary needs! Lapidary Equipment• Silver & Gold Filled Wire & Sheet• Jewelry Making Equipment•...West Federation Show July 18 through 21 Jefferson County Fairgrounds Port Towsend WA Dealer Inquiries Welcome...Steve Voynick 34 A Hotbed of Mining Copper was king in Butte, Montana; by Roger McPherson Field Trip:...rockgemmag@aol.com Cabs, Cabs and More Cabs Gem Center USA Inc. has one of the world's largest selection of...stone, in any shape and in any size. Gem Center USA is also one of the leading distributors of quality
Journal (issue)
..................... .... . 603 NORTH CAROLINA GOLD RUSH OF 1842. BY JEFF HILL .......................an- pleasant. Soon an officer of the Westchester County Police informs us that this portion of Croton Point...Point Park is reserved for groups of Westchester County boys for whom definite camping times have been...low level in the valley of the Hudson can best be explained as the product of a valley glacier which Bowed...on a similar moraine on the western side of the valley. Further Reflections Well, on examination, Croton
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[ [ 23 I 1992 [ 65-128 65-136 65-128 1-96 GOLD-II] 1-112 MMEE•] 25 I 1994 1-80 ARIZONA-I] ...ARIZONA-Ill] 337--400 257-336 [ 257-320 [ [ GOLD-I ] 321--412 ARIZONA-V] 265-352 257-320 353-400...15th annual FM-TGMS-MSA Mineralogical Symposium: silver (chairman R. W. Graeme) 25:69-76 New minerals recently...On a spectacular find of crocoite in the Adelaide mine, Dundas, Tasmania (by A. H. Chapman) 3:111-113 ADOLFSSON...Iaria from the Howard-Montgomery quarry, Howard County, Maryland (by J. S. White) 25:53-54 AFGHANISTAN
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third of the men in Cornwall disappeared to the mining frontiers of the New World. This account contains...was a nightmare, the journey overland to the new mining districts an exhausting trial of strength and morale...their legendary mining skills and to bring social as well as religious stability to mining areas that extended...Wisconsin, along the trails to Oregon and Death Valley, the Sierras and the Sacramento River in — 27...country of Upper Michigan; from there to the silver and gold canyons of the Rockies and the notorious Comstock
Journal (volume)
THESALT LAKE 689388 W G E N I I V N E I R M ... MINING REVIEW Table of Contents , Page 24 Index To Advertisers...SALT LAKE CITY , UTAH Il f 2 THE SALT LAKE MINING REVIEW , APRIL 15, 1915. Products of the Experience...attention than to OTHERBRANCH the Engineering and Mining Trade.BUSINESS Carrying a dowe full line give in...engineering practice . Write forour new Catalog L. MINE & SMELTER SUPPLY CO., Agents REVERE RUBBER CO....KANSAS CITY. MO . Glant Belting THE SALT LAKE MINING REVIEW , APRIL 15, 1915. 3 Built for underground
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.,~, ~ -~ It..•-•·; '~· , - •,· GOLD CI'f!ES - G,ass Valley and Nevada City by Jim Morley, D. Foley...Foley A history and guide to two famous mining towns of Califon1ia's Northern Mines, highly illustrated...CALIFORNIA GOLD RUSH DIARY OF A GERMAN SAILOR by Adolpyus ·windeler Four yea~s of the gold camps minutely...COPPER DEPOSITS IN CANADA !,KENNECOTT, ALASKA 2.BUTTE MONTANA !.BINGHAM, UTAH 4.ELY, NEVADA 5YERINGTON,NEVADA...ARIZONA 10.AJO, ARIZONA ILLAKESHORE, ARIZONA 12. TWIN BUTTE$ OIST., ARIZONA ESPERANZA SIERRITA MISSION TWIN
Report (volume)
by C. W. Hayes 31 Gold and silver 31 Progress report on Park City mining district, Utah, by J. M. Boutwell_...Placer gold mining in Alaska in 1902, by Alfred H. Brooks 49 The Glenn Creek gold-mining district, Alaska... by Arthur J. Collier_ _ Gold and pyrite deposits of the Dahlonega district, Georgia, by Edwin 57 C....Clearwater Moun66 tains, Montana, by Waldemar Lindgren 71 The Chistochina gold field, Alaska, by Walter...Walter C. Mendenhall . 76 Gold mining in central Washington, by George Otis Smith Ore deposits of Tonopah
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
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*# % «•*.*» «(& FIRE BRIMSTONE The North Butte Mining Disaster of 1917 MICHAEL PUNKE m$ ' J k^PfS... Granite Mountain the just before by feet mining disaster midnight on a tragic accident below...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
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(Andalusite) 17. Zinc Ore 18. Labradorite 19. Gold Ore Copper Ores {Malachite, 2 A gate 3. 4. Moss...The person who throughout his Hfe has dwelt in a district where there are no rocks or stones albeit the...discovery of gold, value, or silver, some gem Men minerals sweeps over the district like wildfire...for not only do less minerals glitter, but not gold" is many worth- many of immense value are dull...Tragedy of a Copper Mine .... 21 of a prehistoric miner who met death in a copper mine and whose body,
 
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