 | | 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...The best of Butte pyrite compares with the best anywhere. Handsome specimens of barite, quartz, rhodochrosite...rhodochrosite, silver, and numerous other species have been found, many of them in extraordinary numbers. The...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: |  | | Book | | 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 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | compact masses with kutnohorite, rhodochrosite, quartz, and minor sulfides (Dunn 1976). Rhodonite has...Franklin County; at Coventry and Irasburgh, Orleans County; and at Cavendish, Windsor County, Vermont... at Keene, and southeast of Hinsdale, Cheshire County, and elsewhere in New Hampshire and is reported...from Haddam, Middletown, and Portland, Middlesex County, Connecticut. In Rhode Island, rhodonite has been...in manganese prospects at Cumberland, Providence County. Downloaded by [Universite Laval] at 20:02 10 |  | | 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 © 1981 by the University of Washington Press | | | Book | | 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 |  | | 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 (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 (volume) | | it helpful to refer to Survey Bulletin 507, "The mining districts of the western United States," and to...exhausted by mining or quarrying. Deposits of minerals of wide distribution, such as quartz and calcite...because they occur in sufficient quantity to warrant mining for their usual products but because they furnish... J. B. Hoeing, Frankfort. Mr. J. H. Gardner, Lexington. Louisiana........Prof. Gilbert D. Harris, Baton...See Bauxite and Hallpysite. Asbestos. Tallapoosa County, with corundum deposits near Dudleyville; not found |  | | 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...exhausted by mining or quarrying. Deposits of minerals that are widely distributed, such as quartz and calcite...because they occur in sufficient quantity to warrant mining for their usual products, but because they furnish |  | | 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 |  | | Book (edition) | | YEAR 1687"—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 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | ISOTOPES V. RAMA IN ORES AND ROCKS OF BUTTE, MURTHY AND CLAIRE MONTANA PATTERSON ABSTRACT The isotopic...isotopic compositionsof leads in ores and rocks of Butte, Montana, suggest that the ore metals were neither late...someigneousminerals,sedimentary rocks,and sulfideores of Butte, Montana, have been determinedas a means of investigating...suggestions as to what may have occurredin this district. This is thefirstreportedindication by isotopic...the Butte districthavemodel agesolderthan the emplacement ageand exhibitsmallvariations. The Butte leadsfall |  | | Book (volume) | | conditions: the Cumberland Plateau, the Appalachian Valley, the Appalachian Mountains, the Piedmont Plain...gold-bearing areas. Lode deposits usually consist of Quartz veins in solid rock, while placer deposits occur...Dahlonega Co. and Rabum Co., and the McDuffie County Belt extending through portions of McDuffie, Warren...Sphalerite. BALDWIN COUNTY MILLEDGEVILLE, at state farmjasper. BANKS COUNTY COMMERCE, along Hwy. 59...along adjoining Co. linerock crystal. BARROW COUNTY WINDER, along rd. to Jefferson and 1½ mi. inside |  | | Book (edition) | | 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...gem stones mon dull are as hard or harder than quartz, a com- mineral everywhere present as dust which...Hardness Scale 6. Orthoclase 1. Talc 2. Gypsum 7. Quartz Topaz Corundum 10. Diamond 3. Colcite 8. 4...Your will scratch orthoclase feldspar but not quartz. In making hardness appears to be a scratch paper |  | | Book (volume) | | Most specimen collecting is done in the Lead-Zinc mining dists. of northwestern Illinois, the glacial drift...600 to 800 feet thick in the north. ALEXANDER COUNTY FAYVILLE, area stream gravels⎯agate, jasper, rare...⎯agate, jasper; d RR siding of Clay⎯agate. CALHOUN COUNTY AREA, shores of the Mississippi R., in the Warsaw...Amethysts, or Quartz crystals). CRAWFORD COUNTY PALESTINE, area deposits⎯Siderite. EDWARDS COUNTY AREA, T...deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip mine⎯pyritized gastropods |  | | Book (volume) | | Most specimen collecting is done in the Lead-Zinc mining dists. of northwestern Illinois, the glacial drift...600 to 800 feet thick in the north. ALEXANDER COUNTY FAYVILLE, area stream gravels⎯agate, jasper, rare...⎯agate, jasper; d RR siding of Clay⎯agate. CALHOUN COUNTY AREA, shores of the Mississippi R., in the Warsaw...Amethysts, or Quartz crystals). CRAWFORD COUNTY PALESTINE, area deposits⎯Siderite. EDWARDS COUNTY AREA, T...deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip mine⎯pyritized gastropods |  | | Report (issue) | | Silurian quartz monzonite, and the post-Lower Devonian granodiorite, Attean quadrangle, Somerset County, Maine:...andKruger, C. L. Aeromagnetic map of northeastern Iron County, Michigan: 1 sheet, scale 1:31,680. Aug. 27, 1965...L., Aeromagnetic map of part of eastern Baraga County, Michigan: 1 sheet, scale 1:62,500. June 11, 1965...geologic map of Bradley Peak quadrangle, Carbon County, Wyoming: 1 sheet, scale 1:20,000. May 17, 1965...RedBuffalo Route of Interstate Highway 70, Summit County, Colorado: 10 p., 1 fig. Jan. 29, 1965. (Wa |  | | Journal (issue) | | ................... MINERALS OF THE BlJ'I"I E DISTRICT. By Peter A. S111ith ..... .... A MINERAL TRIP...during the summer to inquire- " How can I get to the quartz crystal locality?" or "Where is the best place...pegmatites carrying white mica and often smoky quartz. The largest of these pegmatites extended along...into the Manhattan schist. This rock is made up of quartz, feldspar, muscovite and occasional biotite and...shows pinkish or salman colored feldspar and smoky quartz. Some of the coarser pegmatite may have been of |  | | Book | | volume is dedicated is four-fold: (1) To locate by mine, deposit, or community those mineralized areas of...Co. Hematite CALERA, Shelby Co. Wavkllite CLAY COUNTY, Sec. 24. T. 19 S R., 7 E. STATUARY, Coosa Co...of* Marble Crystalline TALLADEGA COUNTY Marble, (crystalline) VALLEY HEAD, DeKalb Co. Hematite VILLAGE...VILLAGE SPRINGS, Blount Co. Hematite WOODS COPPER MINE, Cloaburne Co. Sphalerite ARIZONA COVEI.I.ITE I I...Feldspar HISSOP, Coosa Co., (near) Beryl JACKSON COUNTY Hematite KENNEDYS, Clay Co., (near) Magnetite MILLERVILLE |  | | Book (volume) | | ASHTABULA COUNTY CONNEAUT, area pits, quarries, rd. cuts, etc.⎯cone-in-cone Calcite. CLERMONT COUNTY MILFORD...CLINTON COUNTY WILMINGTON, area of Todd’s Ford, a mineral deposit⎯Hematite. COSHOCTON COUNTY AREA, townships...CUYAHOGA COUNTY CHAGRIN FALLS (on Geauga Co. line), area quarries⎯oilstone. DELAWARE COUNTY DELAWARE...nodules⎯Pyrite (crystals sharply cubic). FRANKLIN COUNTY COLUMBUS, area countywide exposures of blue clay...HIGHLAND COUNTY SINKING SPRING, area ore deposit (most important in Ohio) ⎯Hematite. HOCKING COUNTY AREA |  | | Book (volume) | | ASHTABULA COUNTY CONNEAUT, area pits, quarries, rd. cuts, etc.⎯cone-in-cone Calcite. CLERMONT COUNTY MILFORD...CLINTON COUNTY WILMINGTON, area of Todd’s Ford, a mineral deposit⎯Hematite. COSHOCTON COUNTY AREA, townships...CUYAHOGA COUNTY CHAGRIN FALLS (on Geauga Co. line), area quarries⎯oilstone. DELAWARE COUNTY DELAWARE...nodules⎯Pyrite (crystals sharply cubic). FRANKLIN COUNTY COLUMBUS, area countywide exposures of blue clay...HIGHLAND COUNTY SINKING SPRING, area ore deposit (most important in Ohio) ⎯Hematite. HOCKING COUNTY AREA |  | | Book (volume) | | in elev. From 1,000’ on the eastern border with Montana and Iowa to 3,500’ along the western boundary with...instance, a single Spodumene crystal from the Etta Mine near Keystone on the east side of the Mount Rushmore...from 18’ to 27’ long. In addition, gem Garnets, Quartz crystals, Topaz and Tourmaline add to the fascination...commercial production of minerals, principally Gold, Silver, Copper, Iron, Lead, Manganese and Zinc, along...beds, excavations, etc.Selenite roses. BRULE COUNTY AREA: in the Oacoma zone of the Pierre Fm. On Elm |  | | Report (issue) | | By WALTER HARVEY WEED. INTRODUCTION. Copper mining in the United States has had a marvelously rapid...greatest individual increase that of the Copper Queen mine at Bisbee, Ariz. The following table shows the production...550,000 700, 000 10,000 814,035,719 "Salt Lake Mining Review, Annual Review number, January, 1906. The...Stevens, Horace J., Mining World, Jan. 27, 1905; and information furnished the writer by mine owners and managers...copper mines of the United States yield gold and silver as by-products and many gold mines yield small |  | | Report (volume) | | Director Bulletin 842 OF THE GREATER HELENA MINING REGION MONTANA BY J. T. PARDEE and F. C. SCHRADER UNITED...___-_____________-_-_--___-_-__---_-_.--_____ Granite (quartz monzonite)____.__-_______--__-_-______ Rhyolite...Ophir district.________________________________________________ Scratchgravel Hills and Grass Valley......__________---__--_-___ Austin district._.____..._..._._.____._____.____.___-.___._____ Marysville district.___________...___________________________________________ Gould district._______________________________________________ Stemple |
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