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


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Pyrite
Formula:FeS2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Pyrite 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:294053
Long-form Identifier:1:3:294053:3
GUID (UUID V4):12daa930-fa90-48a7-8a7d-c1342555e1d5
Nearest other occurrences of Pyrite
0.7km (0.4 miles) ā“˜Ophir Mine, Butte Mining District (Summit Valley Mining District), Silver Bow County, Montana, USA
0.8km (0.5 miles) ā“˜Emma Mine, Butte Mining District (Summit Valley Mining District), Silver Bow County, Montana, USA
1.0km (0.6 miles) ā“˜Tzarina Mine, Butte Mining District (Summit Valley Mining District), Silver Bow County, Montana, USA
1.1km (0.7 miles) ā“˜Unnamed Mn mine [1], Butte Mining District (Summit Valley Mining District), Silver Bow County, Montana, USA
1.2km (0.8 miles) ā“˜Silver King Mine, Butte Mining District (Summit Valley Mining District), Silver Bow County, Montana, USA
1.3km (0.8 miles) ā“˜Elba Mine, Butte Mining District (Summit Valley Mining District), Silver Bow County, Montana, USA
1.3km (0.8 miles) ā“˜Smokehouse Mine, Butte Mining District (Summit Valley Mining District), Silver Bow County, Montana, USA
1.4km (0.9 miles) ā“˜Gagnon Mine, Butte Mining District (Summit Valley Mining District), Silver Bow County, Montana, USA
1.5km (0.9 miles) ā“˜Colorado Mine, Butte Mining District (Summit Valley Mining District), Silver Bow County, Montana, USA
1.5km (0.9 miles) ā“˜Original 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...rank among the ļ¬nest in the world. The best of Butte pyrite compares with the best anywhere. Handsome specimens...specimens of barite, quartz, rhodochrosite, silver, and numerous other species have been found, many of...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)
Isotopes of the Flooded Underground Mine Workings of Butte, Montana CHRISTOPHER H. GAMMONS,1,ā€  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
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)
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...disintegrates,and, owing to the ever presentiron pyrite, becomesstainedto a reddish-yellowor brown color...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
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
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)
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...fluid inclusion data indicate that exposures of the Butte Granite, which hosts mineralization, crystallized
Report (issue)
Virginia-503 National Center, Rm. 1C402,12201 Sunrise Valley Dr. SALT LAKE CITY, Utah-Federal Bldg., Rm. 8105...in the Bingham District, Utah By EDWIN W. TOOKER Gold in the Butte District, Montana By EDWIN W. TOOKER...TOOKER Gold in the Ely (Robinson) Copper District, White Pine County, Nevada By LAURENCE P.JAMES The Tomboy-Minnie...Tomboy-Minnie Gold Deposits at Copper Canyon, Lander County, Nevada By TED G. THEODORE, STEPHEN S. HOWE, and...in the Bingham District, Utah / by Edwin W. looker Gold in the Butte District, Montana / by Edwin W. looker
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 ----------~-----------------Ā­ Tallapoosa County --------------------------Alaska...------------------Cochise County -----------------------------Gila County --------------------------------Greenlee...ee County ----------------------------R[aricopa County ----------------------------R[ohave County --
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...hematites, 159.. 114-159 CHAPTER HI.ā€” MAGNETITE AND PYRITE. Example 12, Magnetite beds, 160; Adirondack region...181-183; analyses of magnetites, 183;pyrite, 184-186; Example 16, pyrite beds, 184-186; statistics, 186; remarks
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
Journal (issue)
this explain why Hydroseals Tee IN THE MAJOR MINING PUMPS PROTECTED CENTERS OF THE WORLD Most...machines like the ā€œCaterpillarā€ 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. ā€”_ā€”ā€” ; eee if atOT ace | | Horse...fashioned blasting methods and other inefficient mining techniques have become so drill pattern and loading
Book
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...AJO Famous mineral localities: the New Cornelia mine, Ajo, Arizona (by W. J. Thomas & R. B. Gibbs) 14:283-298...Iron-manganese phosphates of the Williams pegmatites, Coosa County, Alabama (by P. B. Leavens & T. A. Simpson) 6:66-73
Report (volume)
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...Arthur J. Collier_ _ Gold and pyrite deposits of the Dahlonega district, Georgia, by Edwin 57 C. Eckel_...Bitterroot Range and the Clearwater Moun66 tains, Montana, by Waldemar Lindgren 71 The Chistochina gold field...field, Alaska, by Walter C. Mendenhall . 76 Gold mining in central Washington, by George Otis Smith Ore
Book (edition)
XVII. Lead and Zinc XVIII. Silver 621 Lead Ores XIX. Gold and 658 Silver 676 XX. Minor Metals....anthracite region 10. Structure section in Tazewell County, east of Richlands, southwest 8. 9. 12. 13. ...Shaft house and tipple, bituminous coal mine, Spring Valley, 111 Northern Interior coal field Composite...structure of western field of Los 104 Angeles district 106 Section of Spindle Top oil field near Beaumont...Galveston, Tex 32. Hypothetical section in same district as Fig. 31 33. Map showing lines of sections in
Book (edition)
191 ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; stones, 195 pyrite, 196 Uses, 198 199 ; ; ; References on precious...196 ; ; Production of sulphur, 198 ; Pyrite, 199 pyrite, 200 201 ; ; ; Distribution, 199 Strontium...United Montana, 282 Michigan, 287 ; Arizona, 290 Bisbee or Warren district, 290 ; Jerome district, 292...292 Clifton district, 293 Globe district, 294 Appalachian region, 294 Utah, 296 CaliOther occurrences, 298...alone, ; 308; Sussex County, N.J., 308 Lead and zinc Upper Mississippi Valley Ozark region, 314 Origin
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 (issue)
faceting & lapidary needs! Lapidary Equipmentā€¢ Silver & Gold Filled Wire & Sheetā€¢ Jewelry Making Equipmentā€¢...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)
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...Geological District (New York) gave on page 143 a table of brick manufacture of the Hudson Valley which includes
Journal (volume)
"^'^^S'''^^^''^ 107 V, '^'^M^i^ JULY TO DECEMBER 1913 Mining and 429 MARKET STREET Scientific Press SAN FRANCISCO...Mines, Ltd., company report Abosso mine. West Africa Acacia Mining Co., Colorado 270, Editorial. Accident...prevention . . . Queen Co.'s mine, Arizona Accident Gold Mining Co., Subil mine, French Gulch, Rules, Copper...Accidents, coal-mine in United States Compensation for Workingmen's compensation Acid mine water Acidity...Irvinebank Editorial. Tramway, one-rope Tramway, Saline Valley Salt Co., California . . . . . . Aerolites
Catalog/List
Chihuahua, Mexico \Vood, Petrified Iron Pyrite; Leadville, Colorado Pyrite Amazonite, Florissant, Colorado Crocidolite...Crocidolite Chrysocolla, Globe, Arizom, Rhodonite Pyrite Garnet in Schist Cuprite, Bisbee, Arizona Lodestone...Mammoth, Arizona. Pyrargyrite, crystallized, Samson Mine, Harz, Germany Cuprite on Native Copper, very fine...Copper Queen Mine, Bisbee, Arizona Malachite, Copper Queen Mine, Bisbee, Arizona Native Silver, Aspen, Colo...Colo., Mollie GibĀ­ son Mine, one of the greatest Silver Mines ever discovered. Native Gold in Calcite
Book
long (Marty, 2004 ). AFRICA widely in Litchfield County, where good crystals were taken from quartz veins...region (Brunet, I 977b ). NEW YORK Amity, Orange County. At many isolated collected sites between the towns...Mount Malosa, Chilwa alkaline province, Zomba district. "Illite" is the name of a series of incompletely...Litchfield County. Ilmenite masses and crystals from somewhere near Washington, Litchfield County, were described...Lake Road occurrence, Faraday Township, Hastings County. In fall 1994, Dan and Shelley Lambert extracted
Book
G,ass Valley and Nevada City by Jim Morley, D. Foley A history and guide to two famous mining towns of...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...C NEWMAN MINE ā€¢ GRAN ISLE 6.HIGHLANO VALLEY, B.C. BETHLEHEM COPPER CRA1GMONT LORNEX VALLEY COPPER HIGHMONT...for the Anaconda Mining Company by the Union Iron Works in 1896. Used at Butte, Montana, they were the
Journal (issue)
Pandaite ā€¢ copper arsenic sulfide ā€¢ Chinkuashih mine, Keelung, T aiw an ā€¢ 4x5 $ 5 0 .0 0 , 2x3 $ 2...person legally tie up a collecting area under a mining claim?How does the term 'ā€˜economical findā€ affect...exploration geologist and a mineral collector). 1. Is a mining claim on a collecting locality valid? Answer is...interest are not specifically excluded by law from mining claim location. These include: petrified wood regardless...ARSENOPYRITEPYRRHOTITE Pseudomorphs - Double RainĀ­ bow m in e , D a k o ta . Very G a le n a , S o
 
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