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Pyrolusite from
Mapleton Mine, Butte Mining District (Summit Valley Mining District), Silver Bow County, Montana, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Pyrolusite
Formula:Mn4+O2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Manganite4 photos of Pyrolusite associated with Manganite at this locality.
Psilomelane4 photos of Pyrolusite associated with Psilomelane at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Pyrolusite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Mapleton Mine, Butte Mining District (Summit Valley Mining District), Silver Bow County, Montana, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1604342
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1604342:2
GUID (UUID V4):6c7ef96b-7507-47a3-b0ea-dc26946e51d5
Nearest other occurrences of Pyrolusite
0.8km (0.5 miles) Independence Mine, Butte Mining District (Summit Valley Mining District), Silver Bow County, Montana, USA
1.2km (0.7 miles) Kossuth Mine, Butte Mining District (Summit Valley Mining District), Silver Bow County, Montana, USA
1.2km (0.7 miles) Sankey Mine, Butte Mining District (Summit Valley Mining District), Silver Bow County, Montana, USA
1.2km (0.7 miles) Iowa Mine, Butte Mining District (Summit Valley Mining District), Silver Bow County, Montana, USA
2.6km (1.6 miles) Tzarina Mine, Butte Mining District (Summit Valley Mining District), Silver Bow County, Montana, USA
3.5km (2.2 miles) Star West Mine, Butte Mining District (Summit Valley Mining District), Silver Bow County, Montana, USA
41.6km (25.8 miles) Broadway Mine, Silver Star Mining District, Madison County, Montana, USA
42.9km (26.6 miles) Examiner Mine (Three Dots and A Dash), Whitehall Mining District (Cardwell Mining District), Jefferson County, Montana, USA
43.5km (27.0 miles) Pine Tree Claim, Whitehall Mining District (Cardwell Mining District), Jefferson County, Montana, USA
44.0km (27.3 miles) Atkinson Manganese Mine, Beaverhead County, Montana, USA
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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;
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....................................... 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
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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
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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:
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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
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Buckfield, Maine. Mined in 1996 by Holden !Jrothers Mining and currently in the Jim Mann collection. Photo...I 900 ' s, showing Loren Merrill 's tourmaline mining operation at Mount Mica. Table of Contents CHAPTER...much information on collecting sites in Oxford County. Numerous other collectors of Maine minerals also...State Museum), Ronald Holden, Jr. (Holden Brothers Mining), Gary Hoyle (Maine State Museum), Duane Leavitt...Fisheries and Wildlife, Phillip McCrillis (Plumbago Mining Corporation), Jane Perham, John Raymond, and Neil
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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
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chalcedony, jasper and gem petrified wood. BUFFALO COUNTY KEARNEY, area gravel bars and pits along the Platte...townagate, chalcedony, jasper, petrified wood. CASS COUNTY WEEPING WATER, SE, on rd. to Nehawka, in the Snyderville...chalcedony, jasper, fossils. CHERRY COUNTY VALENTINE, in the Sandhills county along the Niobrara R. and Minnechaduza...gem qualityagatized and opalized wood. DAWES COUNTY CHADRON, in N part of Co. and as far W as Crawford...mi., turn E on ranch rd. and NW 2 mi. to a lone butte, one of the best collecting area in the Midwest
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Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Mississippi Missouri Montana Nebraska Nevada New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico...the most ancient of all Egyptian burials, in the Valley of the Royal Tombs at Abydos west of the ancient...of commercial mining is also long, beginning with the Kenya opal mines of 4000 B.C. Mining began with gemstones...gemstones, instead of metallic ores, and mining for turquoise was enormously extended throughout the...had been sending great expeditions to prospect and mine for it throughout the Sinai Peninsula since at least
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Sutherland Road Silver Spring, Md. 20901 SECRETARY Vernon Wertz 9707 Sutherland Road Silver Spring, Md...."Keep out" signs. 4. Reporting any abuses of the mining laws or land use regulations to the As a Club or...those who administer the regulations quarry owner or mine operator in the know that we are active and inlocal...Fifty eight Clubs from nineteen States plus the District of Columbia and Quebec, Canada. (In addition we...Canada (Quebec) ..1 Connecticut .... 3 1 Delaware District of Columbia .... 2 5 Florida 1 Georgia 2 Maine
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50 years since Miller's report, the economics of mining zinc and lead have changed substantially; some...zinc and lead. Pennsylvania's single operating zinc mine at Friedensville keeps the commonwealth on the list...vices of mining engineer Milton Leet for locating and sampling zinc-lead shows in the Grace Mine; Eastern...geologist, Mike Slenker, helped bring the Oley Valley occurrence to the author's attention. The New Jersey... Anne' (Kline's quarry), Edward Carper (Soister mine), Betty and John Clauser (Edison quarry), Thomas
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with cubic and octahedral cleavages, Pequea silver mine; middle left: azurite crystals on calcite, “old”...from the owners of the land, from the quarry or mine operators before entering to collect. (Land ownership...particular site, remember it is possible to visit the county courthouse in which the site is located, and trace...tested copper by Benjamin Franklin. In 1732 Gap mine land was owned by the honorable Proprietors Thomas...23 23 28 Adams County Native copper localities Teeter quarry zeolite Allegheny County Wittmer wurtzite
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a ledge of stone blasted, a test core drilled, a mine shaft sunk or a gravel pit dug—additional mineral...also wish to thank the many quarry, gravel pit and mine operators in Iowa, and many private landowners who...marcasite .................................. Pyrolusite ...............................................1) 2) 3) 4) 5) 6) Upper Mississippi Valley zinc—lead district Mineral crystals, isometric ............shale with fibrous white satin spar on top. D. Pyrolusite dendrites on platy dolomite rock. 32 9) A.
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..... Huntingdon Fossils..................... Mapleton Galena......................... Ickesburg Trilobites...Williamsport Ammonites........... Crystal Point Diamond Mine....... Montour Fossil Pit.........................Ringing Rocks Park.................... Wissahickon Valley Garnets....... 3 20 22 24, 29 26, 29 30 32 34...Crest Quarry...................... Sterling Hill Mine....................... Buckwheat Dump.............Basalt Quarry Minerals.............. Schuyler Copper Mine Dumps... Stirling Brook Carnelian............ Cliffwood
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been an indefatigable researcher and collector of mining history. Among his specialties may be mentioned...fate of the Sterling mine in Ogdensburg, New Jersey, and his intense interest in mining history led him to...to purchase the mine in order to form a living museum so that it would remain accessible to the mineralogical...mineralogical community. Through his efforts, the Sterling mine has been declared a national historic landmark....a story to tell concerning Maine's minerals and mining history. The ranks of invited contributors have
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distances from quarries where the cheaper cost of mining offsets transportation costs. The Francon quarry...Leake's nomenclatureunknown analcime—((Greenwood)), Mapleton, Perry, South Berwick anatase—Bridgeton, Topsham...grossular— Ashland, Cornish, Cushing, Limerick, Mapleton, Minot, Raymond gummite—see components gypsum—Oakland...)—Stoneham New York Herkimer "Diamonds" Herkimer County is well known for its quartz crystals, some of...psilomelane—see romanechite pumpeUyite—Aroostock County purpurite—Auburn, Greenwood, Hebron, Newry pyrargyrite—Franklin
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