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Shale from
Shale Deposit, Blossburg, Blossburg Area, Powell County, Montana, USA


Locality type:Deposit
Classification
Type:Shale
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Shale data
Locality Data:Click here to view Shale Deposit, Blossburg, Blossburg Area, Powell County, Montana, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1059340
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1059340:2
GUID (UUID V4):cf1b217a-5f3a-428a-b81f-780411a2d4c1
Nearest other occurrences of Shale
8.3km (5.1 miles) Strawberry Mine, Marysville Mining District, Lewis and Clark County, Montana, USA
10.1km (6.3 miles) Earthquake Mine, Towsley Mine, Marysville Mining District, Lewis and Clark County, Montana, USA
10.1km (6.3 miles) Mammoth Claim, Marysville Mining District, Lewis and Clark County, Montana, USA
10.2km (6.3 miles) Flagstaff Mine, Ophir Mining District, Powell County, Montana, USA
10.3km (6.4 miles) Shakopee Mine, Towsley Mine, Marysville Mining District, Lewis and Clark County, Montana, USA
10.3km (6.4 miles) Towsley Mine, Marysville Mining District, Lewis and Clark County, Montana, USA
10.4km (6.5 miles) Guerin Lode Occurrence, Stemple Mining District (Fool Hen Mining District), Lewis and Clark County, Montana, USA
11.6km (7.2 miles) M and L Mine, Marysville Mining District, Lewis and Clark County, Montana, USA
11.9km (7.4 miles) Empire Mine, Marysville Mining District, Lewis and Clark County, Montana, USA
13.7km (8.5 miles) Windy Ridge Prospects, Marysville Mining District, Lewis and Clark County, Montana, USA
References
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GEOLOGICAL SURVEY Metalliferous Oil Shales in Central Montana and Northeastern Nevada By George A. Desborough.................................... 2 Central Montana..................................................Formation in Fergus and Golden Valley Counties, Montana.......................... 6 Problems in resource...in Heath Formation of Big Snowy trough, central Montana................................... 9 Northeastern...Figure 1. Metalliferous oil shales in central Montana and northeastern Nevada.......................
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University on June 14, 2015 The lacustrine Condor oil shale sequence A. C. Hutton S U M MARY: Organic matter...Australian Tertiary oil shales, for example the Condor deposit, are termed lamosites and were formed in a lacustrine...The Condor oil shale deposit, located near Proserpine, Queensland, contains four oil shale units and a brown...The lower oil shale unit contains a dark brown oil shale whereas the upper three oil shale units contain...contain predominantly brown oil shale. The coal unit contains liptinite-rich cannel coals. Reflectance data
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comparison of the Creta and Kupferschiefer copper shale deposits H. L. O. Huyck and R.W. Chorey Department...characteristics of the Creta copper shale deposit in the Flowerpot Shale of southwestern Oklahoma are compared...compared with the betterknown Rudna deposit in the Kupferschiefer of southwestern Poland. At Creta, early...and New Mexico (Stroud et al. 1970). The Creta deposit, which produced 1.9 million tons of copper ore...1965 and 1975, is the second largest shale-hosted copper deposit in the United States (Hagni 1988). Lead
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523 Organic-Rich Shale of the United States and World Land Areas Organic-Rich Shale of the United States..._______________________ Organic -rich shale _____________ Oil shale __ ____ __ ___ __ Other terms ___________________...gas yield of the organic matter in shale ______ Status of the shale industry ________ World production..._ ___________ Total resources of organic -rich Shale oil resources __________________ North America ...Mississippian shale, Central and Eastern United States, __________ __ __ Marine shale, Alaska '__________
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western coast of Greenland. 1'he fossil-bearing deposit, according to the collectors, is exposed at "cliff..."cliff 2.5 km east of Ujaraqtorssuaq, shale, bed L" According to Dr. Sorgenfrei, 1* 4 JOHN T. C. VI...omiLLed. "about 2.3 km east of Ujaragtorssuaq two shale beds are visible in thc coast section, separated...thick conglomeratic sandstone bed. In the lower shale bed which is abt. 15-20 cm thick and ovedying sandstone...latter however less frequent than in the lower shale horizon". The location and exposurc are said to
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1556/CEuGeol.51.2008.4.6 An overview of the Jordanian oil shale: its chemical and geologic characteristics, exploration...Technology, Al-Balqa' Applied University, Jordan Oil shale is the most abundant fossil energy resource discovered...Jordan, ranking third after the USA and Brazil in terms of oil shale reserves. This asset is considered...fossil-fuel source. The identified reserves of this oil shale are huge and sufficient to satisfy the national...have shown that the country contains several oil shale deposits. These deposits are regarded as the richest
Report (issue)
Creek areas---------------------------John Day Basin area---—--------------------------------------Additional...impacts---------------------------------------Oil shale—————-- ————————— ————— ————— ————————————— —— ————...prospective geothermal area--------------------Vale prospective geothermal area-----------------------------------La...-------------La Grande prospective geothermal area------------------------------Hydrologic problems-...(mm) meter (m) kilometer (km) 25.4 0.3048 1.609 Area acre hectare (ha) square kilometer (km^) square
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THE INTERIOR GEOLOGICAL SURVEY Results of Oil-Shale Investigations in Northeastern Nevada By StevenW...Acknowledgments .......................... 1 1 3 Oil shale and related organic-rich deposits in northeastern... Geology ........................... Early oil-shale mining activities near Elko ......... Other lacustrine...Woodruff Formation. ..................... Chairman Shale. ....................... Phosphoria Formation. ........... 4 4 4 4 8 9 9 10 10 10 10 11 11 Elko area ................................ Introduction .
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CO2-Enhanced Oil Recovery Mechanism in Canadian Bakken Shale Majid Bizhani 1, * , Omid Haeri Ardakani 1,2 , Steven...University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND 58202, USA; shawthorne@undeerc.org (S.B.H.); bkurz@undeerc.org...examine the CO2 -EOR potential in 4 organic-rich shale samples from the Canadian Bakken Formation. A number...; Kurz, Keywords: CO2 -EOR; CO2 storage; CCUS; shale characterization B.; Percival, J.B. CO2 -Enhanced...-Enhanced Oil Recovery Mechanism in Canadian Bakken Shale. Minerals 2022, 12, 779. https://doi.org/ 10.3390/min12060779
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GRAPTOLITE ATHENS OF IN THE SHALE SOUTHFAUNA WESTERN VIRGINIA S. L. POWELL Roanoke College, Salem, Virginia...this work the discovery was made that the Athens shale abounds in graptolites. The determination of some...same as those which characterize the Normanskill shale of New York. As the paper on the entire Cambro-Ordovician...of about eight species occurring in calcareous shale associated with Trenton limestone, which he believes...Cambro-Ordovician section under investigation is in Roanoke County, Virginia, about i1 miles north of Salem, and extends
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1984), in the Powder River Basin of Wyoming and Montana (Jones et al., 1984) and in many more sites around...Comparison of the chemical composition of the oil shale protolith to the stratigraphically equivalent rocks...Maastrichtian (Bentor and Vroman, 1960). The “oil shale” unit may reach 130 m in thickness, averaging 40...Vroman, 1960). The largest oil shale deposit in the Negev covering an area of 70 km2, crops out at Mishor...Mishor Yamin (Fig. 1). The oil shale sequence in the Mishor Rotem deposit is 25–120 m thick (Shirav, (Schwartz)
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stratigraphic and geochemical coherence. Oil shale and black shale deposition commonly follows continental...example to define a Kupferschiefer type (KST) deposit. Here oxygenated brines in contact with red beds...dissolving oxide coatings. Oxidation of the black shale leads to further acid production and metal acquisition...the stratigraphic coherence of the red bed-black shale-evaporite succession must be joined by the geochemical...geochemical coherence of the ore body-evaporite-black shale association. The Cretaceous Cu-Zn deposits of Angola
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the geologic folio of the Lancaster-Mineral Point area (folio No. 145, Geologic Atlas U. S., price 25 cents)...CALVIN, SAMUEL, and BAIN, H. F. Geology of Dubuque County: Iowa Geol. Survey, vol. 10, 1900, pp. 379-622...1 Platteville. . ................ Limestone and shale ............... 1st. Peter................... 70... A few miles back from the river the Maquoketa shale and Niagara limestone are present in the section...of particular importance are the limestone and shale of the Platteville, the basal Galena beds, and the
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Canadawere examinedfor beds of metal-rich black shale similar to those describedas ore depositsin other...black shaledeposition. These samplesincludeblack shale andassociated organic-rich rockstransitionalwith...shalefor any one of 21 minor elements. A black shale sampleis definedas metal-rich if any minor elementoccursin...chemicaldata, the detrital mineral fraction of most black shale depositsis characterizedby the elementsaluminum...regardedas mobile. The organic fractions of black shale depositsare locally enriched in other mobileele
Report (volume)
Massachusetts 02142, USA 667 Lytton Avenue, Palo Alto, California 94301, USA 107 Barry Street, Carlton...Carlton, Victoria 3053, Australia DISTRIBUTORS USA Blackwell Scientific Publications Inc. PO Box 50009...directly to CCC, 27 Congress Street, Salem, MA 01970, USA. 0305-8719/88 $03.00 Typeset, printed and bound...Lacustrine petroleum source rocks in the Dinantian Oil Shale Group, Scotland: a review 235 Gore, P. J. W. Lacustrine...early Mesozoic rift basin: Culpeper Basin, Virginia, USA 247 Fu JIAMO, SHENG GUOYING & LIU DEHAN. Organic
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collected in sequences of Cretaceous units within an area about 80 miles long near the western margin of Wyoming...the "Fossil Cut," in southeast of Evanston, Uinta County, Wyo. It is about 45 miles south-southeast of Sage...about 2 miles south of Antelope Creek, Lincoln County, Wyo. It is 5 miles north of and about 500 feet...side near the mouth of the third Creek, Lincoln County, Wyo. It is 26 miles north of and about 1,000 to...7—Near center sec. 32, T. 28 N., B. 118 W., Lincoln County, Wyo. It is 9 miles north of and about 100 feet
Journal (issue)
THE OLD RED DRIFT OF PIERCE COUNTY, WISCONSIN Theodore C. Vanasse Montana Coal Reserves Appraised EARTH...Site of the discovery, and poverty of the adjacent area in datable fossils of other animals, leaves the...boundary of the Paleocene series in most of the area, This contribution toward the solutuion of a dificult...drill holes in the underground quarry at the Oil-Shale Demonstration Plant near Rifle, Colorado, where...determining the costs and methods for mining oil shale on a commercial scale. Bureau of Mines photo. THE
Report (issue)
GIBELLINI CLAIMS, SOUTHERN FISH CREEK RANGE, EUREKA COUNTY, NEVADA By J. K. Bohlke, A. S. Radtke, Chris Heropoulos... Lower boundary of the deposit 12 Composition and origin of the black shale 13 Oxidation and metal...Comparison of unoxidized Gibellini facies black shale with "normal shale" and seawater iii 14 SPECTROSCOPIC...GIBELLINI CLAIMS, SOUTHERN FISH CREEK RANGE, EUREKA COUNTY, NEVADA By J. K. Bohlke, Arthur S. Radtke, Chris...and trace elements. Unoxidized siliceous "black shale" from drill hole NGA 7 is strongly enriched in Cd
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
begiinstigt, wie an Beispielen ans Europa, aus den USA und aus Brasilien gezeigt wird, die Bildung yon Sedimenten...Beispiele aus Europa sind: unterkarbonische Oil-Shale Group, Schottland; oberkarbonische Steinkohle, WDeutschland;...WDeutschland; oberjurassischer Kimmeridge Shale, Nordsee-Raum; unterkretazischer Bl~ittertonstein, NWDeutschland;...Beispiele ans den USA sind oberdevonische/unterkarbonische Gas-Shales, 6stliche USA; permische Phosphoria-Formation...mittelkretazischer Mowry-Shale, n6rdliche Rocky Mountains; eoz~iner Green River Shale, s/.idliche Rocky Mountains;
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discovered by him last summer near Red Lodge, Montana, Dr. Glenn L. Jepsen, of Princeton University,...Another correspondent intimates that, since the Montana shell scraps are nearly black, the parent dinosaurs...over an inch in length, on the surface of a shale deposit which they were exploring with the hope of determining...More Than Doubled in Size M ORE than doubling the area of one of the newest national parks, Bryce Canyon...its area from 14,480 to 30,560 acres. The newly-acquired lands were transferred from the Powell National
Report (volume)
GEORGE OTIS SMITH, Director Bulletin 729 OIL SHALE OF THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN REGION BY DEAN E. WINCHESTER........................................ 13 Oil shale....................................................................... Formations containing oil shale................................ Devonian..........tests........................................ Montana-................................................................................. West-central Montana.................................... General geology
Report (issue)
THE TEMPSKY A-BEARING ROCKS OF SOUTHERN HIDALGO COUNTY, NEW MEXICO By ROBERT A. ZELLER, JR. GEOLOGICAL...Formation -------------------Aspen Shale ------------------------Thermopolis Shale -------------------Willow Tank...the Tempskya-bearing rocks of southern Hidalgo County, New Mexico, by 2 Robert Al. Zeller, Jr ----...the Lower Cretaceous Mojado Formation of Hidalgo County, N. Mex., and are associated with marine invertebrates...most of them are in strata in the Rocky Mountain area. In addition, rocks of Late Cretaceous or Cenozoic
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Geochemistry of Natural Gases from the Woodford Shale, Arkoma Basin, Oklahoma Changjie Liu, Peng Liu,...Geochemistry of Natural Gases from the Woodford Shale, Arkoma Basin, Oklahoma, Geochimica et Cosmochimica...Geochemistry of Natural Gases from the Woodford Shale, Arkoma Basin, Oklahoma Changjie Liua, Peng Liua...79409, USA Department of Chemistry and Physics, West Texas A&M University, Canyon, TX, 79016, USA c Lanzhou...the Late-Devonian to Early Mississippian Woodford Shale in the southwestern Arkoma Basin in Oklahoma. The
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America: Brazil; Chile; Uruguay . . WORLD MAP OF OIL SHALE DEPOSITS • REFERENCES TO LITERATURE ON OIL SHALES...markets, labour, transport and supplies. Each deposit will present a separate problem with regard to...varies from I·7 to 2·3, and the streak of a good oil shale is generally brown. The shales resemble hard dark...composition of the Broxburn (Pentland, Scotland) seam shale, not dried, as: per cent.. Volatile matter Fixed...volatile matter, with 74·28 per cent. of spent shale. The volatile material consisted of oils, r2·70
Report (issue)
America: Brazil; Chile; Uruguay . . WORLD MAP OF OIL SHALE DEPOSITS • REFERENCES TO LITERATURE ON OIL SHALES...markets, labour, transport and supplies. Each deposit will present a separate problem with regard to...varies from I·7 to 2·3, and the streak of a good oil shale is generally brown. The shales resemble hard dark...composition of the Broxburn (Pentland, Scotland) seam shale, not dried, as: per cent.. Volatile matter Fixed...volatile matter, with 74·28 per cent. of spent shale. The volatile material consisted of oils, r2·70
 
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