 | | 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 (issue) | | WASHINGTON May 5, 2007 9:00 am to 5:00 pm Clark County P. U. D. Building 1200 Fort Vancouver Way Vancouver...assemblage, which typically includes albite, adularia, calcite, chlorite minerals and anatase. This assemblage...They enlarge and become filled with minerals like calcite and quartz (as the fissure opens or later). In...process leads to simple veins filled with massive calcite or quartz. Given the right balance between the...fibrous crystals that connect the ends of the original grains and span the opening. The boundaries of |  | | 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) | | Western side of Stapleton Gulch in the Argenta district. The Stapleton workings are visible in the lower...of the center below the crest of the hill. in Montana Unless otherwise noted, all photographs by the... CHRISTOPHER S. TUCKER PO Box 22575 Billings, Montana 59104 tuckerj@mcn.net W ith the variety of colors...wulfenite; however, they seldom have specimens from Montana in their collections. When one thinks of wulfenite...mountains of western Montana. Figure 1. Wulfenite, with vanadinite, 8 mm across, Blackhawk mine, Radersburg district |  | | 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) | | 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...January–February, 2002 5 Figure 1. Steel headframes of the Original (foreground), Kelley #1 (center-background), Steward |  | | Report (volume) | | Director Bulletin 955-E FLUORSPAR PROSPECTS OP MONTANA BY CLYDE P. ROSS Contributions to economic geology...near Anaconda, Deer Lodge County-_______________ Silver Bow prospect, Silver Bow County__________________________...ILLUSTRATIONS Page PLATE 18. A, General view of East Butte from the south; B, View down Sage Creek from the..._______ 28. Geologic and topographic map of the Silver Bow fluorspar 209 prospect--...---------------...--- In pocket FIGURE 6. Index map of part of Montana, showing the mapped fluorsparbearing areas and |  | | 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, have...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; |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Washington, DC 20013 pohwatp@si.edu Bornite Dzhezkazgan Mine, Dzhezkazgan Karagandy Province, Kazakhstan S ...foremost copper mining localities in the United States: Butte, Silver Bow County, Montana. Butte has been called...Rico, Bolivia, and Broken Hill, Australia. The Butte deposit was at one time considered a hydrothermal...deposit (Guilbert and Parks 1986). Many of the Butte specimens in the Smithsonian collection, and others...be melting into the matrix as if they were the original models for the melting watches in Salvador Dali’s |  | | Report (volume) | | BULLETIN 527 ORE DEPOSITS OF THE HELENA MINING REGION MONTANA BY ADOLPH KNOPF WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT............................ Historical sketch of mining.....................................................'.............................. Tourmalinic silver-lead deposits................................ Description... 42 42 43 43 44 44 45 45 46 46 48 Tourmalinic silver-copper deposits............................. Tourmalinic............ Systematic importance of tourmalinic silver-lead deposits:.......... Younger ore deposits (post-Miocene) |  | | 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...widely distributed, such as quartz and calcite, have been omitted, except those that by reason of some |  | | Catalog/List | | Internet, Fax, and Mail) Heritage Auctions Design District Annex 1518 Slocum Street • Dallas, TX 75207 Sunday...52001-52306 LOT VIEWING Heritage Auctions Design District Annex 1518 Slocum Street • Dallas, TX 75207 Wednesday...directly from the miners at the Elmwood Mine in Tennessee, when the mine was actively producing twenty years... 52002 SZENICSITE with POWELLITE Jardinera No. 1 Mine, Inca de Oro, Chañaral Province, Atacama Region...mineral came from one pocket in the Jardinera No. 1 Mine. That find was roughly one cubic meter in volume |  | | 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..."scratched" scratch was Many which is area, Wet is calcite, a pocket knife blade tests, make sure that...from them weather the types of agates found in Montana. Metamorphic rocks include those of either of the...associated with such rocks. Because hard rock mining amateur will usually get is tedious and expensive |  | | Catalog/List | | and Nevada were his favorites because of their mining and coin minting history. During his second year...the university, Kevin delved into mineralogy and mining history, and began to update his mineral collection...exploring scores of abandoned mining towns from California to New Mexico to Montana. He did extensive research...and in particular, the towns of the Hwy 95 mining district from Rhyolite to Goldfield and Tonopah. Kevin...memories are of collecting quartz in Montana, calcite in Utah, silver, galena, sphalerite, and amethyst |  | | Journal (issue) | | scepter with pyrite, 7 cm, from Spruce Ridge, King County, Washington; Rick Dillhoff collection; Jeff Scovil...row, from left) Acanthite with silver, 2.6 cm, from the Uchucchacua mine, Peru; Allan Young collection...prospectors. All of this activity gave a jump-start to mining interests and prospecting in the lands of the Pacific...beautiful quartz specimens from Denny Mountain and King County, Washington, and the zeolites from the coastal...in the Montana State Capitol rotunda, by F. Pedretti’s Sons, 1902, 84 inches in diameter. Montana Historical |  | | Report (issue) | | THE MINERAL DEPOSITS OF THE BEARPAW MOUNTAINS, MONTANA. By LEON J. PEPPERBERG. INTRODUCTION. While engaged...an investigation of the Milk River coal field, Montana, during the field season of 1909, the writer had...publications relating a The Bearpaw Mountains, Montana: Am. Jour. Scl., 4th ser., vol. 1, 1896, pp. 283-301...ECONOMIC GEOLOGY, 1SO&, PAST I. to this formation in Montana and Canada. The stratigraphy and occurrence of...plains. They lie in the southern half of Chouteau County, Mont., between Milk and Missouri rivers, about |  | | Book (edition) | | where fuller accounts of a region are desired, the original sources may be made available in any good library...who have been engaged in the study of our great mining regions, especially in the West, have laid the...now in the active practice of the profession of mining engi neering. J. F. K. DECEMBER, 1899. NO TEXT...125-129; Marquette district, 129-136; Menominee dis trict, 136-139; Penokee-Gogebic district, 139-143; Vermilion...189-194; Spenceville, Cal., 195, 196; Example 17, Butte, Mont.; 197-203; Gilpin Co., Colo., 203, 204; Llano |  | | 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: |  | | Report (issue) | | MANGANESE ORE IN MONTANA, UTAH, OREGON, AND WASHINGTON. By J. T. PARDEE. DEPOSITS IN MONTANA. HISTORY AND...production of manganese ore in Montana. Although since 1870 the Butte and Philipsburg districts had produced...produced large quantities of the ores of copper, silver, and other metals, the fact that large bodies of...In 191Y the production in that district so greatly increased that Montana jumped far ahead of the other...manganese oxide ore was mined from the lodes at Butte, and rather unsuccessful attempts were made to concentrate |  | | Report (issue) | | description of the geology, mining history, and production of the major gold-mining districts in 21 States...relations ---------------------------History of gold mining and trends in production_ J\labama -----------...--------------Cleburne County ----------~----------------- Tallapoosa County --------------------------Alaska...------------------Cochise County -----------------------------Gila County --------------------------------Greenlee...ee County ----------------------------R[aricopa County ----------------------------R[ohave County -- |  | | Report (volume) | | Director Bulletin 842 OF THE GREATER HELENA MINING REGION MONTANA BY J. T. PARDEE and F. C. SCHRADER UNITED...Ophir district.________________________________________________ Scratchgravel Hills and Grass Valley......__________---__--_-___ Austin district._.____..._..._._.____._____.____.___-.___._____ Marysville district.___________...___________________________________________ Gould district._______________________________________________ Stemple...._ Heddleston district.___________________________________________ Wolf Creek district.._..........__ |  | | Book (edition) | | YEAR 1687"—DAVID T. DAY, CHIEF OF THE DIVISION OF MINING STATISTICS AND TECHNOLOGY WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT...or are not at present being utilized. Since the original lists were compiled, the rapid growth of the mineral...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 |  | | 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 |  | | 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 |
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