 | | Book | | Western townships in general. Butte, Montana, in 1885, was a mining camp with a floating population...lawless days of Butte in 1865 and 1866; it deals extensively with mining magnates and mining activities and...and offers interesting sidelights on numerous Butte enterprises of a general nature. Particularly valuable...downtown and residential areas, from the days when Butte had only a scattered few wooden huts, in 1875, to...over any line.”’ MONTANA JACKET PHOTOGRAPHS COURTESY HISTORICAL SOCIETY, HELENA, MONTANA Digitized by |  | | 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) | | 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...The best of Butte pyrite compares with the best anywhere. Handsome specimens of barite, quartz, rhodochrosite...rhodochrosite, silver, and numerous other species have been found, many of them in extraordinary numbers. The...Kelley #2 (rightbackground) mines, Butte, ca. 1965. World Museum of Mining photo. 6 The Mineralogical Record |  | | 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) | | 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: | | | Book | | of Western townships in general. Butte, Montana, in 1885, was a mining camp with a floating population...lawless days of Butte in 1865 and 1866; it deals extensively with mining magnates and mining activities and...and offers interesting sidelights on numerous Butte enterprises of a general nature. Particularly valuable...downtown and residential areas, from the days when Butte had only a scattered few wooden huts, in 1875, to...JACKET PHOTOGRAPHS COURTESY MONTANA HISTORICAL SOCIETY, HELENA, MONTANA Digitized by the Internet |  | | 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 |  | | Book (volume) | | 59,000 square miles makes it the largest of the Atlantic seaboard states. It is situated at the southern...conditions: the Cumberland Plateau, the Appalachian Valley, the Appalachian Mountains, the Piedmont Plain...Plain (about 30% of the state), and the Atlantic Coastal Plain. Thus rocks of every geological age are exposed...Piedmont Plain from the coastal lowlands in the Atlantic Coast Fall Line, so named from the falls or rapids...gold-bearing areas. Lode deposits usually consist of Quartz veins in solid rock, while placer deposits occur |  | | 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...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; |  | | 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 .................................. ·......... |  | | 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...exhausted by mining or quarrying. Deposits of minerals that are widely distributed, such as quartz and calcite...because they occur in sufficient quantity to warrant mining for their usual products, but because they furnish |  | | 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 |  | | Report (volume) | | Director, Montana Bureau of Mines and Geology, Butte, Mont. BA Atomic Energy Commission, Butte Suboffice...Suboffice, Butte, Mont. D Geological Survey office, Room 468 New Customhouse, Denver, Colo. DA Atomic Energy...(387, 631) Cressman, E. R., Geology of the Dry Valley quadrangle, Idaho: TEI-258 Aug. 25, 1952. IM, SL...of the Shinarump No. 1 uranium mine, Seven Mile Canyon area, Grand County, Utah: TEI-287, Jan. 11, 1954...Results of exploration at the Old Leyden coal mine, Jefferson County, Colo.: TEM-292, Mar. 30, 1953. D, GJ. |  | | Book (volume) | | Most specimen collecting is done in the Lead-Zinc mining dists. of northwestern Illinois, the glacial drift...600 to 800 feet thick in the north. ALEXANDER COUNTY FAYVILLE, area stream gravels⎯agate, jasper, rare...⎯agate, jasper; d RR siding of Clay⎯agate. CALHOUN COUNTY AREA, shores of the Mississippi R., in the Warsaw...Amethysts, or Quartz crystals). CRAWFORD COUNTY PALESTINE, area deposits⎯Siderite. EDWARDS COUNTY AREA, T...deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip mine⎯pyritized gastropods |  | | Book (volume) | | Most specimen collecting is done in the Lead-Zinc mining dists. of northwestern Illinois, the glacial drift...600 to 800 feet thick in the north. ALEXANDER COUNTY FAYVILLE, area stream gravels⎯agate, jasper, rare...⎯agate, jasper; d RR siding of Clay⎯agate. CALHOUN COUNTY AREA, shores of the Mississippi R., in the Warsaw...Amethysts, or Quartz crystals). CRAWFORD COUNTY PALESTINE, area deposits⎯Siderite. EDWARDS COUNTY AREA, T...deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip mine⎯pyritized gastropods |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | [Florida Atlantic University] at 04:09 22 November 2014 Covellite Summitville, Rio Grande County, Colorado...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...such localities as the Loudville mine, Easthampton, Hampshire County, Massachusetts; Mineral Hill, WakeFigure...by [Florida Atlantic University] at 04:09 22 November 2014 Downloaded by [Florida Atlantic University] |  | | Report (volume) | | the ruby, sapphire, spinel, emerald, rutile, and quartz of gem quality have been synthesized. The best...Fluorite Apatite . 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Orthoclase Quartz Topaz Corundum Diamond The numbers preceding each...of silica (quartz, 7 on Moh's scale) particles, a gem stone should be harder than quartz. Some minerals...react to heat are: violet quartz (amethyst) changing to orange brown, smoky quartz to yellow, pale-green...sapphire, star sapphire, star ruby, rutile, and quartz are gem stones that have been successfully synthesized |  | | Report (issue) | | recovered by Dean Farris from mine dump waste in the Gold Hill district. The actual diameter of the button... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Kirwin district . . . . . . , . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....City) district .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 16 Stinkingwater district . . ...Sunlight district . ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 18 22 Mine and... . . . . . . .. 39 39 40 40 40 41 41 Reported mine and prospect descriptions . . . . .. . . . . . |  | | Book (edition) | | 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...CHAPTER VI.— LEAD AND ZINC. Example 24, Upper Miss. Valley, 233-237; Washington Co., Mo., 238, 239; Livingston |  | | Report (issue) | | courtesy of the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, Los Angeles, California. INTRODUCTION Welcome...the author’s 1981 discovery of an entire gold district west of Casper in the Ra�lesnake Hills area (Hausel...discovery, some major mining companies and private consultants explored the district and located several...(WSGS) during mapping projects in the historic mining districts at South Pass (Hausel, 1991), Seminoe...1994), Sierra Madre (Hausel, 1986), and Medicine Bow Mountains (Hausel, 1989; 1993) (Figure 2). In addition |  | | Report (volume) | | ........................ 5 5 Distribution of mining districts..................................................................................... Montana.......................................................................... PART II. Catalogue of mining districts, by J. M. Hill..................................................... Classification of mining districts..................................................................................... Montana............................................... |  | | Book (edition) | | - Temecula, CA 92589 (909) 699-4749 - 1994 Mining Guide TABLE OF CONTENTS INrRoDUCI'ION ••••••••...······································ MO 1-3 Montana ...................................................... . 1994 Mining Guide INTRODUCTION IMPORTANT - PLEAsE READ! The 1994 GPM Mining Guide is designed...(normally listed from north to south), directions and mining commen ts; gold-producing areas, general prospecting...under 18 years of age. After purchasing a current Mining Guide, GPAA members may take family members with |  | | 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 -- |  | | Book | | of this book. Mining Cultures Mining; Cultures Men, Women, and Leisure in Butte, 1914—41 Mary Murphy...and Drinking Daughters: Gender and Prohibition in Butte, Mon¬ tana” in American Quarterly 46 (June 1994):...“Messenger of the New Age: Station KGIR in Butte” in Montana Magazine of Western History 39 (Autumn 1989):...ation Data Murphy, Mary. Mining cultures : men, women, and leisure in Butte, 1914-41 / Mary Murphy. p... 1. Butte (Mont.)—History. 2. Butte (Mont.)—Social life and customs. 3. Copper mines and mining—Montana—Butte— |  | Snyder, George L., Hausel, W. Dan, Klein, Terry L., Houston, Robert S., Graff, Paul J. (1989) Precambrian Rocks and Mineralization, Southern Wyoming Province - Hartville Uplift to Copper Mountain Area, Wyoming July 19-25, 1989. Field Trip Guidebook T332. American Geophysical Union | Report (issue) | | Geological Survey National Center, MS 954 12201 Sunrise Valley Drive Reston, VA 22092 Robert S. Houston Research...and Hausel) 20 Medicine Bow Mountains geologic summary (Houston) Medicine Bow Mountains stop descriptions...including iron-formation formerly quarried at the Atlantic City mine. Return to Holiday Lodge, Lander, for evenin~...Jack Radichal, and Kathleen and Tom Moore. Medicine Bow Mountains: C.E. Pitcher of Arlington. Bradley Peak...Company, Bart Rea and Bruce Ward, owners of the Duncan Mine, Michelle Vinich of Club EI Toro, and Sue Homec |
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