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


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Enargite
Formula:Cu3AsS4
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Enargite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Silver Bow Mine, Butte Mining District (Summit Valley Mining District), Silver Bow County, Montana, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:176809
Long-form Identifier:1:3:176809:1
GUID (UUID V4):c1532313-1b1e-4507-9d81-e6a5230d89a0
Localities for Enargite in this Region
Number Three shaft, Silver Bow Mine, Butte Mining District (Summit Valley Mining District), Silver Bow County, Montana, USA
Nearest other occurrences of Enargite
0.3km (0.2 miles) Glengarry Mine, Butte Mining District (Summit Valley Mining District), Silver Bow County, Montana, USA
0.4km (0.3 miles) Geyman Mine, Butte Mining District (Summit Valley Mining District), Silver Bow County, Montana, USA
0.4km (0.3 miles) Berkeley Mine, Butte Mining District (Summit Valley Mining District), Silver Bow County, Montana, USA
0.5km (0.3 miles) Ground Squirrel Mine, Butte Mining District (Summit Valley Mining District), Silver Bow County, Montana, USA
0.5km (0.3 miles) Pennsylvania Mine, Butte Mining District (Summit Valley Mining District), Silver Bow County, Montana, USA
0.6km (0.4 miles) J.I.C. Mine, Butte Mining District (Summit Valley Mining District), Silver Bow County, Montana, USA
0.7km (0.4 miles) Rarus Mine, Butte Mining District (Summit Valley Mining District), Silver Bow County, Montana, USA
0.8km (0.5 miles) Tramway Mine, Butte Mining District (Summit Valley Mining District), Silver Bow County, Montana, USA
0.8km (0.5 miles) Iduna Mine, Butte Mining District (Summit Valley Mining District), Silver Bow County, Montana, USA
0.9km (0.6 miles) Berkeley Pit, Butte Mining District (Summit Valley Mining District), Silver Bow County, Montana, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
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)
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...digenite, djurleite, and enargite rank among the finest in the world. The best of Butte pyrite compares with...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)
20013 pohwatp@si.edu ENARGITE Longfellow Mine, Red Mountain District, San Juan County, Colorado Are all...group is the subject of this column—enargite. The name enargite is derived from the Greek έναργ ής...(001). Enargite also occurs in granular or massive habits. One of the characteristics of enargite crystals...are the striations along prism faces. Although enargite has perfect {110} cleavage, it also has distinct...indistinct cleavage. Twinning is common on {320}, and enargite may occur as interpenetrating trillings having
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...interesting to note that Weed (1912, p. 74) stated that Butte bornite “is always massive, with a recognizable
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;
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
November 2014 Covellite Summitville, Rio Grande County, Colorado Two minerals are typically formed when...periods when some chance discovery in an active mine makes them briefly available to collectors. Chalcocite...as pseudomorphs after chalcopyrite, chalcocite, enargite, arsenopyrite, sphalerite, and bornite. Excellent...pseudomorphs after covellite are well known from Butte, Montana. A comprehensive description of the fundamental...such localities as the Loudville mine, Easthampton, Hampshire County, Massachusetts; Mineral Hill, WakeFigure
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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Notes on Enargite. By W. S~M~OSS. [Read October 21Bt, 1884.] H E N I submitted my Paper on Enargite (/}/in...locality of the mineral. /ks the territory of Montana embraces a considerable extent of land, I was therefore...at the Liquidator Mine in Silver Bow county, near Butte City, also at the Gaquon mine. At the Liquidator...raised. At the Gaquon mine it is associated with ehaleoclte containing silver. I did not find any at...at the famous " A n a c o n d a " mine ; but as they were then working on the rich lead of the lode (only
Report (issue)
Enargite Cu3 AsS4 c 2001-2005 Mineral Data Publishing, version 1 Crystal Data: Orthorhombic. Point...c = 6.154(1) Z=2 X-ray Powder Pattern: Butte, Montana, USA (shows preferred orientation on [hk0]). 3...Chinkuashi mine, Keelung, Taiwan. At Kaize-mura, Nagano Prefecture, and in the Teine mine, Hokkaido,... Japan. In the USA, in splendent crystals from Butte, Silver Bow Co., Montana; in Utah, in the Tintic...Tintic district, Juab Co.; in Colorado, in fine specimens from a number of mines in the Red Mountain district
Book
i0000malo_g608 The Battle for Butte The Battle for Butte MINING AND PoLitics ON THE NORTHERN FRONTIER...Malone Montana Historical Society Press Helena Cover photograph: Anaconda Hill, Butte, Montana, circa...circa 1900 (Montana Historical Society Photograph Archives) Cover design: Finstad Visual Design, Helena,... Montana Printed by Thomson-Shore, Inc., Dexter, Michigan Montana Historical Society Press 225 N. Roberts...Roberts St. P. O. Box 201201 Helena, Montana 59620-1201 © 1981 by the University of Washington Press
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 .................................. ·.........
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
Catalog/List
Fairfield County, Branchville White xlline with cymatolite, good study ... New Mexico Taos County, near Dixon...cerium aluminum silicate California Los Angeles County, Pacoima Canyon Large black tabular crystals in...iron silicate ACTINOLITE California San Bernardino County, Wrightwood Green prismatic crystalline mass ....sodium and iron California San Benito River, Gem mine Black prismatic xls imbedded in syenite CROSSITE...Sodium iron silicate California San Benito County, Gem mine Compact blue-gray mass with natrolite ...
Report (issue)
fine-grained, massive, intimately intergrown with enargite. Twinning: Common on {112}, also polysynthetic...Polymorphism & Series: Mineral Group: Dimorphous with enargite; forms a series with famatinite. Stannite group...formed at low to medium temperatures. Association: Enargite, tetrahedrite–tennantite, colusite, stannoidite...covellite, sphalerite, bismuthinite, silver sulfosalts, silver, gold, marcasite, alunite, barite, quartz...the Lepanto mine, Mankayan, Luzon, Philippines [TL], as an ore mineral. In the Chinkuashi mine, Keelung
Book (edition)
YEAR 1687"—DAVID T. DAY, CHIEF OF THE DIVISION OF MINING STATISTICS AND TECHNOLOGY WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT...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...prong of Canoe creek, in St. Clair county, to Ha\sop creek, in Bibb county, a distance of 60 miles. Down to
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
PARAGENESIS BUTTE OF THE ORE DISTRICT, MINERALS IN THE MONTANA. JAMES C. RAY.1 INTRODUCTION...materialrecentlycollectedby the writer in the Butte District. I am deeplyindebtedto the managersand geologists...Messrs. N.H. Emmons and E. A. Hewitt, of the North Butte Copper'MiningCo.; and Mr. Case,superintendent of...Speculator, Berkeley,Silver Bow, Elm Orlu, Gagnon, MountainView, Leonard,Belleof Butte,FractionLease(Clark...followingmines: Leonard,Pilot-Butte,Badger, Elm Orlu, East Colusa,West Colusa,Alec Scott,Silver Bow, Pennsylvania,
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
Book
Collection of S mithers, Photographer, Butte Butte, Montana, in r 8 72, after its significant gold placers...and it had not yet attained its first riches of silver or suspected its greater riches of copper The... The War of the Copper Kings BUILDERS OF BUTTE AND WOLVES OF WALL STREET by C. B. GLASSCOCK , Ignorance...perhaps, should be named the Historical Society of Montana at Helena, Mr. David Hilger, librarian, and his...They opened to research the files of scores of Montana newspapers of the decade from 1895 to 1905 which
Catalog/List
A~GLESITE. 8. ATACAMITE. Copiapo, Atacama District, Chile. Rich, very dark, blackish green, bladed...If.xlt". f.l. 50. 9. AZURITE. Moldawa, Banat District, Hungary. Small, bright, blue sharp sparkling...thick. £13.00. BISMUTHINITE. George & Charlotte Mine, Tavistock Hamlets, Devon. Rich, silvery grey, bladed...veinstuff. IpHxl" , £1.50. BISMUTHINITE. Patino Mine, Uncia, Potosi Dist., Bolivia. Choice, very rich...cavities. lixl-!;-". £4.50. 14.'/ BORNITE. Carn Brea Mine, Illogan, Cornwall. Clusters of tarnished Bornite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
distomglanz, binnite (described by Des Cloizeaux as silver-rich), kupferblende (zinc-rich), miedziankite (zinc-rich)...chalcopyrite, galena, acanthite, sternbergite, enargite, bornite, covellite, calcite, dolomite, siderite...graphic granite. Pseudomorphs of tennantite after enargite are common. Pseudomorphs of pitticite (an amorphous...tennantite crystals from the Champion lode, Clear Creek County, Colorado. Dave Bunk specimen, Jeff Scovil photo...tennantite crystals with quartz from the El Cobre mine, Concepción del Oro, Zacatecas, Mexico. Cal and
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 farmjasper. BANKS COUNTY COMMERCE, along Hwy. 59...along adjoining Co. linerock 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 floatjasper. CARTERSVILLE:
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
69 Enargite. By L. J. SPs~eEIi, B.A., F.G.S., Assistant in the Mineral Department of the British Museum... xxvi. (" Garbyite ") ; VI., 49, 124.--Anal., Montana. R. de Neufville, 1891. Zeits. Kryst., XIX., 75...School of Mines Quart., XVI., 229--Large crystals, Montana. Also as describing or mentioning occurrences :-Tyrol...i~he following is a complete list of lhe forms of enargite ; t h o s e present on the British Museum specimens...i t c " ; ,, 81~176 81~ 80~176 81~176 ' ' ENARGITE. 78 Also the published measurements for this
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
69 Enargite. By L. J. SPs~eEIi, B.A., F.G.S., Assistant in the Mineral Department of the British Museum... xxvi. (" Garbyite ") ; VI., 49, 124.--Anal., Montana. R. de Neufville, 1891. Zeits. Kryst., XIX., 75...School of Mines Quart., XVI., 229--Large crystals, Montana. Also as describing or mentioning occurrences :-Tyrol...i~he following is a complete list of lhe forms of enargite ; t h o s e present on the British Museum specimens...i t c " ; ,, 81~176 81~ 80~176 81~176 ' ' ENARGITE. 78 Also the published measurements for this
Report (issue)
538(6) Z=1 X-ray Powder Pattern: Tramway mine, Butte, Montana, USA. 3.07 (100), 1.881 (60), 1.600 (40), 1...63 1.4 31.2 Total 99.71 100.1 100.49 (1) Butte, Montana, USA; corresponds to Cu25.26 V1.50 (As4.31 Sn1...Association: Pyrite, tetrahedrite–tennantite, enargite, luzonite, stannoidite, goldfieldite, germanite...Distribution: In the USA, in Montana, from the Leonard mine [TL] and other mines, Butte, Silver Bow Co.; in Arizona...Arizona, from the Magma mine, Superior, Pinal Co., and the Campbell mine, Bisbee, Cochise Co.; from Red
 
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