 | | 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...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 |  | | Book (volume) | | conditions: the Cumberland Plateau, the Appalachian Valley, the Appalachian Mountains, the Piedmont Plain...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...Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States BARTOW COUNTY AREA, Saltpeter Cave, as floatjasper. CARTERSVILLE: |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Show Figure I (above). Pyrite, Alice Glory Hole, Clear Creek County. Cluster of intergrown crystals...Figure 2 (right). Pyrite, Mountain Spring mine, Rico, Dolores County. Cluster of modified cubes; specimen...C*O*L*O*R*A*D*O PYRITE BARBARA L. MUNTYAN Ouray County Museum Ouray, Colorado 81427 Mineral photographs...States, fine pyrite specimens have been found at Butte, Montana; Park City, Utah; Washington State; and numerous...in significant amounts in virtually all of the mining districts of the Colorado mineral belt. (The Colorado |  | | Report (issue) | | GEOLOGICAL SURVEY A bibliography of stockwork molybdenite deposits and related topics (with emphasis on...computer sorting A bibliography of stockwork molybdenite deposits and related topics (with emphasis on...citations brings together references on stockwork molybdenite deposits and related topics in a format that...world's molybdenite is produced from "stockwork" (Clark, 1972) deposits 1n which molybdenite is either...offered classification schemes for stockwork molybdenite deposits and generalized riiodels for the tectonic |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Montana, Treasure State for the Crystal Mineral Collector By GERALD J. NAVRATIL Bex 70, RFD 7, Middleburg...crystal mineral localities within the state of Montana. Quite accurately the state has been officially...mineralminded public. The well-publicized Butte copper district has been ignored since the writer feels...known. Amcnnpijiite: In the Emery Mining district (Powell County) the mineral is found in wellformed...Crevasse Mountain Mining district near Jardine (Park County). At the Kennebec mine in the Crevasse Mountain |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Columbia-Washington, (3) (eastern) Oregon-Idaho-(western) Montana, (4) Colorado-NewMexico, (5) Nevada-southern California...Questa) and in the Interior Belt of BritishColumbia(Alice (B.C. Molybdenum), EndakoandBossMountain). The geologichistory...(t.p.d.)x BritishColumbia 1967 46,000,000 Mine Alice (B. C. Molybdenum) 8,000 Company British Columbia...A. 4o World War I stimulusbroughtthe Climax mine into production and in 1919 fissure-veindepositswere...S•mple ß Ouesta Irregular + Big Ben Composite ß Alice(BC.Moly) D•ke swarm StockworkMolybdenum + Serb |  | | 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 |  | | Report (issue) | | on sulfide and nonsulfide mineralogy, gold and silver grades and deposit tonnage. A discussion of ore... local geographical area, mineralogy, gold and silver grades, tonnage, and references are given in table...deposit. Table 4, part B, gives an alphabetic list of mine and properties followed by the deposit name. CHARACTERISTICS... These deposits are primarily worked for gold. Silver is a minor byproduct; about 14 percent of the deposits...deposits described here have reported silver grades. Sulfides commonly make up less than 5 percent of |  | | Report (issue) | | SierritaEsperanza copper-molybdenum deposit, Pima County, Arizona, in Jenney, J. P., and Hauck, H. R., eds... 1939, Geology of the Lead Mountain area, Pima County, Arizona [M.S. thesis]: Tucson, University of Arizona..., 1920, The southern section of the Amole mining district: Arizona Bureau of Mines Bulletin 106, p. 19-25...Report on the Loma Prieta mine (copper and molybdenum), Copper Basin, Yavapai County, Arizona: U.S. Geological...mineralization, Bagdad, Arizona: American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical,and Petroleum Engineers Transactions |  | | 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...crystals). CRAWFORD COUNTY PALESTINE, area deposits⎯Siderite. EDWARDS COUNTY AREA, T. 1 S, R. 10 E...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...crystals). CRAWFORD COUNTY PALESTINE, area deposits⎯Siderite. EDWARDS COUNTY AREA, T. 1 S, R. 10 E...deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip mine⎯pyritized gastropods |  | | 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) | | DIRECTOR BuiiIiETIN 574 MINING DISTRICTS OF THE DILLON QUADRANGLE, MONTANA AND ADJACENT AREAS BY ALEXANDER................................................. Mining districts...................................................................................... Mining development. ...................... .. - - ' -..................................... 18 Placer mining....... ~................................................................ 20 Present status of mining .....:........................................ |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | noted Figure 1. Camp Bird mine, level 2, Sneffels district, Ouray County. Raines-Pettem collection,...from the Leadville district, with another 50 million pounds mined in San Juan County (Henderson 1926).... During the twentieth century, the Gilman district surpassed Leadville in total copper production with...million pounds (Del Rio 1960). By comparison, Butte, Montana, produced more than 266 million pounds of copper...in 1925 alone (Gerry 1928). Butte mined copper; Colorado mined gold, silver, lead, and zinc. Nearly all |  | | Report (issue) | | Because of the expense involved in drilling, mining concerns commonly drill enough holes to prove or...or disprove the economic viability of the mining the deposit. This process can lead to a tonnage, and...be reported because they may not be economic to mine at the time they are explored. Balancing these...often more complete because mining concerns attempt to develop long-range mine plans now. It is also more...present the combination of several deposits from a district. Reports of multiple grades from different parts |  | | Journal (issue) | | ................... MINERALS OF THE BlJ'I"I E DISTRICT. By Peter A. S111ith ..... .... A MINERAL TRIP...MINERALS OF THE BUTTE DISTRICT, MONTANA By PETER A. SM 1TH Placer gold was discovered in Butte in -r-----~Ui~...and the first silver vein the next year. In a few years Butte was a prosperous silver mining camp. Copper...1886 the the fire areas is not lost as the water Butte mines have annually yielded more leaches it out...any other single district in water containing copper sulphate is pumpthe world. Butte Hill is locally |  | | 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...abundant it may have been completely exhausted by mining or quarrying. Deposits of minerals that are widely...because they occur in sufficient quantity to warrant mining for their usual products, but because they furnish |  | | Report (issue) | | recovered by Dean Farris from mine dump waste in the Gold Hill district. The actual diameter of the button... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Kirwin district . . . . . . , . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....City) district .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 16 Stinkingwater district . . ...Sunlight district . ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 18 22 Mine and... . . . . . . .. 39 39 40 40 40 41 41 Reported mine and prospect descriptions . . . . .. . . . . . |  | | 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 (volume) | | it helpful to refer to Survey Bulletin 507, "The mining districts of the western United States," and to...abundant, it may have been completely exhausted by mining or quarrying. Deposits of minerals of wide distribution...because they occur in sufficient quantity to warrant mining for their usual products but because they furnish...See Bauxite and Hallpysite. Asbestos. Tallapoosa County, with corundum deposits near Dudleyville; not found...commercial quantity or quality. Asphalt. Colbert County, small quantity has been shipped from near Leighton; |  | | Report (issue) | | company which owned the mine or deposit is given in parentheses after the name of the mine or deposit (e.g.:...(Abella Resources)). No company name is given if the mine or deposit was owned by Anaconda. Any complete reference...Nb205 Ni opt Pb Sn st Ti Ti02 U308 W W03 Zn % silver alumina gold barite beryllium beryllium oxide bismuth...magnetite pounds magnesium manganese molybdenum molybdenite metric tons columbium (niobium) columbite nickel...million st with 0.19% Mo. [1] Arizona Banner District, Gila Co. Chillito deposit (Kennecott) reserve |  | | 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 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | North America; the rare earth pegmatitesb of Llano County (Texas), Minas Geraes(BraziI), Ytterby (Sweden)...2, pp. 104-105, 1907. la Reid, A. Mclntosh, The mining fields of Morina, Mt. Claude, and Lorinna: Tasmania...pp. 300-311. t6 Dolmage, Victor, Finlay River district, British Columbia:' Canad'ian l[i'n. TH E AM...accompany the Mesozoic batholiths of Oregon,le Montana,20 Nevada,21and California.22 A number of the minerals...A. L Genesis of mica pegmatite deposits, Latah County, Idaho: , Econ. Geology,vol. 28, no. 1, pp. 41-58 |
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Alice Mine, Walkerville, Butte Mining District, Silver Bow County, Montana, USA