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


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Pyrite
Formula:FeS2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Pyrite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Speculator Mine, Butte Mining District (Summit Valley Mining District), Silver Bow County, Montana, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:176813
Long-form Identifier:1:3:176813:8
GUID (UUID V4):7785cbc2-a196-4208-95af-10799ae3cdbc
Nearest other occurrences of Pyrite
0.1km (0.0 miles) Edith May Mine, Butte Mining District (Summit Valley Mining District), Silver Bow County, Montana, USA
0.2km (0.1 miles) Jessie Mine, Butte Mining District (Summit Valley Mining District), Silver Bow County, Montana, USA
0.2km (0.1 miles) Tuolumne Mine, Butte Mining District (Summit Valley Mining District), Silver Bow County, Montana, USA
0.3km (0.2 miles) Bell Mine, Butte Mining District (Summit Valley Mining District), Silver Bow County, Montana, USA
0.3km (0.2 miles) Modoc Mine, Butte Mining District (Summit Valley Mining District), Silver Bow County, Montana, USA
0.4km (0.2 miles) Diamond Mine, Butte Mining District (Summit Valley Mining District), Silver Bow County, Montana, USA
0.4km (0.3 miles) Gem Mine, Butte Mining District (Summit Valley Mining District), Silver Bow County, Montana, USA
0.4km (0.3 miles) East Gray Rock Mine, Walkerville, Butte Mining District (Summit Valley Mining District), Silver Bow County, Montana, USA
0.5km (0.3 miles) High Ore Mine, Butte Mining District (Summit Valley Mining District), Silver Bow County, Montana, USA
0.6km (0.4 miles) Wake-up-Jim Mine, Walkerville, Butte Mining District (Summit Valley Mining District), Silver Bow County, Montana, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
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 specimens...specimens of barite, quartz, rhodochrosite, silver, and numerous other species have been found, many of...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:
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)
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...pseudomorphs after covellite are well known from Butte, Montana. A comprehensive description of the fundamental...water table in deposits containing chalcopyrite and pyrite at depth. Covellite suitable for micromounts has...such localities as the Loudville mine, Easthampton, Hampshire County, Massachusetts; Mineral Hill, WakeFigure
Report (volume)
Wilderness Study Area, Park and Sweet Grass Counties, Montana By U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY and U.S. BUREAU of MINES...wilderness study area, Park and Sweet Grass Counties, Montana B. Geophysical interpretations C. Economic appraisal...wilderness study area, Park and Sweet Grass Counties, Montana D. Geothermal resource STUDIES RELATED TO WILDERNESS-WILDERNESS...Wilderness study area, Park and Sweet Grass Counties, Montana. (Studies related to wilderness-Wilderness areas)...forest lands in the North Absaroka study area, Montana, which is being considered for wilderness designation
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... Moose,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)
distomglanz, binnite (described by Des Cloizeaux as silver-rich), kupferblende (zinc-rich), miedziankite (zinc-rich)...associated minerals include, to name but a few, pyrite, chalcopyrite, galena, acanthite, sternbergite...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...tennantite specimen from the Longfellow mine, Red Mountain Pass, Ouray County, Colorado. Dave Bunk specimen, Jeff
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
Journal (issue)
stock certificates for mines in the Cripple Creek District, Colorado, in 1898 and 1901. Sponsorship: This...Kile Brian Kosnar Bryan & Kathryn Lees Ian Merkel Mining Hall of Farne, Steve Whittington curator Nick North...did not escape the notice of some of the earliest mining men to work in there. Unlike the neighboring states...is basically a hardrock state where mining (and specimen mining) must typically cut through granite and...smoky quartz, rhodochrosite, fl uorite, gold and silver minerals are found more or less in their unaltered
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paper) . Copper mines and mining—West (U.S.)—History. . Copper mines and mining—Environmental aspects—West...)—History. . Copper mines and mining—Health aspects—West (U.S.)—History. . Mining engineering—West (U.S.)—History...  Underground miners in Butte   Butte steam engine   Map of Butte and Anaconda region   Big...in western Montana, my parents took me and my four brothers to see the Berkeley Pit in Butte, back when...from our home in the green and pleasant Missoula Valley. First thanks must go to my parents, then, for
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5.1 cm high from Eagle's Nest mine in Placer County, Caifornia, USA Collection Marlin Zinn; photo Jeff...International, LLC P.O. Box 263, East Hampton, CT 06424, USA Phone 1.860.267.1512; fax 1.860.267.7225 www.lapisint...Lapis International, LLC East Hampton, Connecticut USA Collection 'Alan Table of Contents What Is Gold...First Gold Rush: Gold Fever in the Southeastern USA . . . . . . . .P. 16 R. Chris Tacker California and.... . . . . . . . . . P. 90 A Photo Gallery Gold Mining and Investment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
In the presentpaperthe replacement of sulphides(pyrite, chalcopyrite, bornire, ehalcocite,covellite,galena...SERICITE ASSOCIATED WITI-t ENGELS MINE, PLUMAS MAGMATIC COUNTY, ORES, CALIFORNIA. The writer first...magmatic copperoresfrom the Engelsminein Plumas county, California.xø The sericiteoccursas definite, ...III. Specimens from No. 5 tunnel, Engel's mine, Plumas County, California. ($, sericite; b, bornire; cc'...Polishedsectionsof specimens from Engel'smine, Plumas County,California. (ch, chlorite; b, bornitc; cc' hypogenechalcocite;cc2
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
Report (issue)
study area, Custer and Gallatin National Forests, Montana Edited by JANE M. HAMMARSTROM1, MICHAEL L. ZIENTEK2...Study Area, Custer and Gallatin National Forests, Montana U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 93-207...700 km2) of National Forest land in southwestern Montana adjacent to the northern part of Yellowstone National...resources in the U.S., as well as significant gold, silver, copper, lead, and zinc resources. Mines have operated...the area since the 1860's and have produced gold, silver, arsenic, tungsten, copper, lead, zinc, chromium
Report (volume)
depth__________ Precipitates from mine waters under superficial conditions_ Composition of mine waters of the Jopliu-region___________...Copper-bearing deposits________________________ 199 Butte, Montana__________________________ 199 Bingham,...Arizona__________________________ 208 Note on the Bisbee district, Arizona, by F. L. Ransome_ 209 Globe and Miami...Mexico____________________ 22J Burro Mountain district, New Mexico_____________ 222 , Cananea, Mexico...__ 233 Shasta County, California______ _ __ 234 Snowstorm lode, Coeur d'Alene district, Idaho__ _ 235
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
Journal (volume)
Bingham, Utah, Mining Black Sand Page. Abbott, James W A Visit to Ely, Nevada Mining at Bingham, Utah...Greenwater District Ditto Ditto Ditto Abyssinia, Minerals In The Requirements of Modern Mining 70S 52...Charles [64 James W. 82 431 114 Nelll 815 District, British W Columbia, The 783 431 795 736 241...Tube-Mill Lining Forbes Rlckard 511 17 The Boundary District The Mineral Output of. In 1906 Broken Hill, Acid...Proprietary Mine, He Treatment at G. D. Del prat Brown, Walter 8 A Filing System for Mining Engineers llucke
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uccessor in interest, the American Institute oC Mining and M etallurgical Engineers has made a grant from...attended his efforts- not the spectacular success of a mining executive, but the more lasting success in the...spontaneous movement arose among geologists and mining engineers to express in some appropriate fashion...Board of Directors of the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers elected him to H onorary...that would touch wider circles, was desirable. The Mining Geology Committee of the A.I.M.E. undertook to
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History of the Verde Mining District, Jerome, Arizona David F. Briggs Geologist March 2018 CONTRIBUTED...Citation: Briggs, D.F., 2018, History of the Verde Mining District, Jerome, Arizona. Arizona Geological Survey...---------------- 3 Geology of the Verde Mining District ------------------------------------------...---------------------- 71 Future of Verde Mining District ------------------------------------------...northeastern slope of the Black Hills, the Verde Mining District is located approximately 25 miles northeast
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KRISTALLE Est.1971 Laguna Beach, California, USA • Tel: +1 949 494 5155 • Email: info@kristalle.com... Gressman tom.gressman@minrec.org The Tintic District: Juab and Utah Counties, Utah...................COVER: CLINOCLASE, 3.9 cm, from the Mammoth mine, Tintic District, Utah. Rock Currier collection; Jeff Scovil...sample of a pascoite group mineral at a mine in Grand County, Utah. Died, Alex Earl, 26 Jayson Alexander...over the American West. A trip to the Blue Bell mine near Baker, California, in 2016 was particularly
Journal (issue)
paragenesis of the Little Three mine pegmatites, Ramona district, San Diego County, California ...............plus an interesting range o f rare species. The mine, first opened in 1903, continues to produce fine...Three mine is one of several mines located on the Little Three property in the Ramona district, San Diego...Diego County, California. This mine, strictly speaking, is developed in the Little Three main dike, one...material produced from the Mursinka-Alabashka District, Urals, and the Volyn pegmatites in the Ukraine
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Japan/ Munich, Germany Laguna Beach, California, USA tel: +1 949 494 5155 / info@kristalle.com The ...Articles The White Rock Quarry, Clay Center, Ottawa County, Ohio ...............651 by C. J. Stefano & J....from the White Rock quarry, Clay Center, Ottawa County, Ohio. Daniel Trinchillo (Fine Minerals International)...$324/three years, (Canada) $196/one year, (outside USA other than Canada) $275 for one year Subscription... Company, another shipping firm serving major American mining and chemical companies. The company ceased operations
Journal (volume)
"^'^^S'''^^^''^ 107 V, '^'^M^i^ JULY TO DECEMBER 1913 Mining and 429 MARKET STREET Scientific Press SAN FRANCISCO...Mines, Ltd., company report Abosso mine. West Africa Acacia Mining Co., Colorado 270, Editorial. Accident...prevention . . . Queen Co.'s mine, Arizona Accident Gold Mining Co., Subil mine, French Gulch, Rules, Copper...Accidents, coal-mine in United States Compensation for Workingmen's compensation Acid mine water Acidity...Irvinebank Editorial. Tramway, one-rope Tramway, Saline Valley Salt Co., California . . . . . . Aerolites
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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
Report (issue)
IDAHO So THIRTY - THIRD ANNUAL REPORT OF THE Mining Industry of IDAHO FOR THE YEAR 1931 STEWART INSPECTOR...submitted, STEWART CAMPBELL, Inspector of Mines. MINING 6 ARTICLES SPECIAL INDUSTRY APPEARING OF...cr 32d, Bunker Hill & Sullivan M. & C. Co.: Valley County..---.....--.ee WA eee = 25th, ee ee ce ae BE...AUD66 ee Oe ae ee es Dlectricity in Coeur d’Alene District: --...--...--..----...----------------- 30th,...Anaconda Copper Mining Ce.: Phosphate IME in ts. eee Stoping Anaconda Copper Mining Co.: Inclined Top
 
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