 | | 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...covellite, digenite, djurleite, and enargite rank among the finest in the world. The best of Butte pyrite...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 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | samplesare arrangedin groupsaccordingto the depositor mining districtfrom whichthe sampleswere collected. Somespecimens...Mineralogic and geologic description S•/S• 0/00Su /Butte, Montana XII-D1-Bu21 XII-D1-Bu52 Massive, fine-grained...fine-grained, steely chalcocite, Anaconda mine (E-W) .................................. 22.21 Predominantly...partiaily replaced by sooty chalcocite. West Colusa mine, 700 L. (E-W) Pyrite .............................chaicopyrite with little pyrite and tetrahedrite. Badger mine, State vein, 2,200 L. (E-W) Galena with little |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Multiple-Stage PorphyryCopperMineralizationat Butte, Montana: Vein Formationby HypogeneLeaching and Enrichment...mineralizationduring the growth of the large vein systemsat Butte, Montana. Applicationof the principlesof irreversiblethermodynamics...precipitates in vein structures. Finally chalcocite,digenite, corellite, and enargite form in narrow high-grade... TR.4NSFER MECH.4NISMS, COPPER MINER.4LIZ.4TION, BUTTE, MONT.4N.4 557 suiting in a net copperaddition...base metals and sulfur, of high-grade Main Stage Butte veins originated as disseminatedsulfidesin the early |  | | Journal (issue) | | FACTS ABOUT OPAL CLAIM TO COPPER FAME Butte’s Mining Legacy DYNAMIC DISCOVERY Biggs Junction Reveals...NEVADA’S CARLIN TREND America’s Greatest Gold-Mining District 64 CAPTIVATING FIND AT CARVER AGATE FIELD...Opals............... 58 30 CLAIM TO COPPER FAME Butte, Montana’s Colorful History of Becoming “The Richest...older specimen of opal from the prolific USA locality of Butte, Oregon, reveals a carving-grade opal as...ue s re la te d to o p a ls. • Fe a ture s e xa mining the sc ie nc e , g e o lo g y a nd histo ry o f |  | Lund, Karen, McAleer, Ryan J., Aleinikoff, John N., Cosca, Michael A., Kunk, Michael J. (2018) Two-event lode-ore deposition at Butte, USA: 40Ar/39Ar and U-Pb documentation of Ag-Au-polymetallic lodes overprinted by younger stockwork Cu-Mo ores and penecontemporaneous Cu lodes. Ore Geology Reviews, 102. 666-700 doi:10.1016/j.oregeorev.2018.05.018 | 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 |  | | Book (edition) | | Chapters on the Coeur d'Alene Mining District, the Blackbird Mining District, and the Sawtooth Mountains...Chapters on the Coeur d'Alene Mining District and the Blackbird Mining District, and to Ben Sheppard for reviewing...reviewing the chapter on the Blackbird Mining District. Those who contributed photographs, or specimens...or a vein of massive pyrite and chalcopyrite in a mine, so references such as these were not included....for a particular mineral may be a certain mine, but that mine may now have a new name, or may now be a |  | | Report (volume) | | location and means of access to all the metallic mining districts in the State, as well as a large number...________ Silver: Argentiferous galena 1 ____________________________________________ Silver halides,...- - - - - Sulfantimonides and sulfarsenides of silver, chiefly polybasitepearceite------------------...260 50 5 2 317 1 The distribution of gold and silver in auriferous and argentiferous sulfides is difficult...sulfides contain native gold, gold and silver tellurides, native silver or argentite in extremely fine but |  | | 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 © 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 |  | | Book (edition) | | McDonald Co\·er photo: \\ 7 ulfenite, Rowley Mine, Maricopa County, 4 cm high specimen, Evan and Melissa Jones...used mining districts as part of the locality description. These political and geographic district names...with a more descriptive term, metallic mineral district. This term shows the geochemical and mineralogical...reader to learn more about the geology of the district and to possibly predict the minerals that could...districts. Where possible, the metallic mineral district for each mineral locality is given for the mineral |  | | 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...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...gray Barite rosette up to 5 or 6 inches. CAMPBELL COUNTY MOUND CITY, W to the Missouri R., regional hillsides |  | | Report (issue) | | sulfides, sulfosalts, and opaque oxide minerals, and silver and mercury halides, calcite, dolomite, siderite...080; Z = 4 2496Q (Cu/Ni)—East Gold mine, Bowser River district, Portland Canal area, B.C. Composition...230 ©1178 1.020 01636 0.913 0.833 0.786 (LGB) 3. SILVER—Ag Cubic, On,5-Fm3m; a = 4.085; Z = 4 235Q* (Cu/Ni)—Freiberg...(Cu/Ni)—Freiberg, Saxony (QU, native wire silver) Cell edge by Owen 7, 472, 1933) obtained fine at...same 4 Ag in (a) 0, 0, 0 & Yates (Phil. Mag., on silver 99.9 per cent ef al. (V.B.S. Circ. 539, a = 4.0862 |  | | Report (issue) | | 31 University of Nevada Press, Reno, Nevada 89557 USA Copyright © 2004 by University of Nevada Press Photographs...copyright © 2004 unless otherwise noted Map of Mining Districts and significant mineral occurrences of...Olivenite, 1.6-cm cluster, Majuba Hill Mine, Antelope district, Pershing County. N. Prenn collection. Photograph...production of environmental protection equipment. Mining and the discovery, identification, and development...to Nevada in 1929 and was actively involved in mining in the state and the western U.S. for the rest |  | | 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 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Water in the Boulder Batholith and the Butte Ore Deposits,Montana* SIMONM. F. SI•EPP^m) Arm HUCH P. TAYLOR...variationsare probably primaryfeaturesof the magmas. At Butte, theisotopic dataforhydrous alteration minerals...hydrogenisotopecompositionof Main Stagealterationmineralsat Butte is very low and extremelyuniform (SD------140__+...oxygenisotopestudiesof argillic alterationin the Butte ore deposits(Sheppard et al., 1969) havetentativelyindicatedthat...magmaticwater (SD = -40 to -80). Thus the early Tertiary Butte ore deposits,and the Late CretaceousBoulder batholith |  | | Report (issue) | | ASSESSMENT OF THE HELENA NATIONAL FOREST, WEST-CENTRAL MONTANA Edited by R.G. Tysdal 1 , Steve Ludington2 , and...ASSESSMENT OF THE HELENA NATIONAL FOREST, WEST-CENTRAL MONTANA U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OPEN-FILE REPORT 96-683-A...in west-central Montana. It lies in the vicinity of Helena, the capitol city of Montana, and includes Federal...was discovered in the region in Powell County in 1852. Mining began in the 1860's, and since then the...the Forest has produced gold, silver, copper, lead, zinc, molybdenum, and phosphate minerals. * At the |  | | Corporate Document (Series) | | Adelaide mine, Dundas {Photo: A Wright] Rear cover: Bismuthinite on quartz and siderite, Princess mine {Photo:...Mount Bischoff {Photo: A. Tuma] Siderite, Renison mine {Photo:]. Leeming] While every care has been taken... Acknowledgments Introduction ... ... Geology of Tasmania ... Mining in Tasmania ... William Petterd (1849-1910) and...and mine locations, Dundas mineral field Geology and major deposits, Heazlewood mineral district ......have been kept since almost the earliest days of mining (Petterd, 1894, 1896a, 1897, 1902 and 1910) and |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | typicaloutwardzonationof Cu-Zn-Pbobservedin porphyrycoppers,Butte-typebasemetal veindeposits, skarns,andmassive sulfides...Implications to mineralization patternsin Mississippi Valley-type,sedimentaryCu, and other low-temperaturedepositsare...oflatemagmatic-hydrothermal For Main Stage vein mineralization at Butte, later evolution.Anotherfactoraffectingmineralabundance...molalrather ulatesthat seenin the Cordilleranor Butte-typeorethanpartsper millionscale,but mutualrelationships...outerexpression of the earlyprotore As typified by Butte Main Stageveins, lead and mineralization,or if so |  | | 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 |  | | Journal (issue) | | Famous mineral localities: the Home Sweet Home mine ..................................................quartz, 10 cm tall, from the Yucca Hill claim, Park County, Colorado. Richard A. Kosnar specimen; photo by...significant mineral localities in C o l o r a d o ,by county. In addition, there is a complete listing o f all...type localities, and an alphabetical cross-index by mine name. T INTRODUCTION In the Spring of 1976 a group...LOCALITY INDEX BOULDER COUNTY Caribou Mine Caribou (near Nederland), Caribou District (Silver, Uraninite, Galena | | | Report (issue) | | 3i University of Nevada Press, Reno, Nevada 89557 USA Copyright© 2004 by Uni versity of Nevada Press Photographs...te, r.6-cm cluster, Majuba Hill Mine, Antelope district, Pershing County. N. Prenn coJlection. Photograph...percent of the state. Nevada's public lands offer mining, livestock grazing, wild horse viewing, .scenic...Road and Geologic Tours in th<' Las Vegas Area. Mining and the discovery, identification, and development...Vavis The Goodsprings (Yellow Pine) Mining District, Clark County John C. Kepper MINERAL CATALOG 91 |  | | Report (volume) | | Mayr, E., 2. Davis, M. J., 1. Boulder batholith, Montana: Knopf, Various species: Link, T. A., A., 9. 13...the future: Just, E. ing: Burwell, E. B., Jr., 4. Mining geology, retrospect and Index fossils: Stephenson... Landform interpretation, stereoSearch for new mining districts: Nolan, T. B., 1. pairs: Powers, W. E...described. Div. Mines, 1; Jenkins, O. P., Choctaw County, Highway 17 area: 3. Toulmin, L. D., Jr., 3. Minor:...limestone: Lamar, Shotts, R. C., 5. J. E., 11. Gold, mining districts: Pallister, Trace elements and potash |  | | Book (volume) | | brownish yellow octagonal calcite (21.30 ct), Montana; light yellow orthoclase feldspar (25.03 ct), Idaho;...(25.56 ct), Sweet Home Mine, Colorado; colorless scheelite (19.66 ct), Kern County, California; octagonal...Vivid blue matched benitoite gems from San Benito County, California, consisting of 52 benitoites and 75...oligoclase feldspar (5.04 ct), Oregon; and three Montana sapphires, violetish blue (2.52 ct), yellow (4...events to bring the history of North American gem mining up to date. Here, then, is the latest, most complete |
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