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Cerussite from
Elkhorn Mine, Elkhorn Mining District, Jefferson County, Montana, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Cerussite
Formula:PbCO3
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Cerussite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Elkhorn Mine, Elkhorn Mining District, Jefferson County, Montana, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:211157
Long-form Identifier:1:3:211157:5
GUID (UUID V4):1e491858-4fd6-46fc-9653-a0c60cf929c6
Nearest other occurrences of Cerussite
19.4km (12.0 miles) North Home Mine, Radersburg Mining District (Cedar Plains Mining District; Lone Mountain Mining District), Broadwater County, Montana, USA
21.9km (13.6 miles) Santa Anita Mine, Radersburg Mining District (Cedar Plains Mining District; Lone Mountain Mining District), Broadwater County, Montana, USA
23.1km (14.3 miles) Congress, Radersburg Mining District (Cedar Plains Mining District; Lone Mountain Mining District), Broadwater County, Montana, USA
24.4km (15.2 miles) Blackhawk Mine (Blackhawk Occurrence), Radersburg Mining District (Cedar Plains Mining District; Lone Mountain Mining District), Broadwater County, Montana, USA
25.1km (15.6 miles) Summit Mine, Radersburg Mining District (Cedar Plains Mining District; Lone Mountain Mining District), Broadwater County, Montana, USA
25.4km (15.8 miles) Silver Star Mine, Radersburg Mining District (Cedar Plains Mining District; Lone Mountain Mining District), Broadwater County, Montana, USA
27.0km (16.7 miles) Morning Mine (Midnight Mine), Cataract Mining District (Comet Mining District; Basin Mining District), Jefferson County, Montana, USA
29.4km (18.3 miles) Jo Jo Mine, Radersburg Mining District (Cedar Plains Mining District; Lone Mountain Mining District), Broadwater County, Montana, USA
32.1km (19.9 miles) PC Mine (P.C. Crystal Mine; Penn placer), Cataract Mining District (Comet Mining District; Basin Mining District), Jefferson County, Montana, USA
40.4km (25.1 miles) Silver Coin Mine, Blue Cloud Mining District, Lewis and Clark County, Montana, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
The Elkhorn Mine Downloaded by [Florida International University] at 21:06 27 August 2013 J E F F E...Koch, began prospecting in the Elkhorn Mountains of what was then the Montana Territory. The three prospectors...explored the Elkhorn Creek valley in the high slopes on the western side of the Elkhorn Mountains, near...near the center of what is now Jefferson County, Montana. Finding mineralized ground, the three located...with the discovery of the Elkhorn mine, he was in the grave long before the mine was discovered, and such
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...with its representation of mining tools clearly proclaim Montana’s mining origins. Montana’s production...published describing the occurrence, collecting, mining, and cutting of the two state gemstones. Figure...2. Granville Stuart established Montana’s first mining camp at Gold Creek in 1860. Geologic Provinces
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
Report (issue)
Deposits, East Flank of the Elkhorn Mountains, Broadwater County, Montana GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL...Deposits, East Flank of the Elkhorn Mountains, Broadwater County, Montana By M. R. KLEPPER, E. T. RUPPEL... _ Red Lion and Maywood Formations---------~ Jefferson Dolomite _______________________ ~ __ Three Forks...___ _ Elkhorn Mountains Volcanics ___________________ _ Intrusive rocks related to the Elkhorn Mountains...__ 49 2. Morrison and Swift Formations near Montana Silver Star mine____________________________ 52
Report (issue)
Geology of the Southern Elkhorn Mountains Jefferson and Broadwater Counties, Montana By M. R. KLEPPER, R...Maywood and Red Lion formations Devonian system Jefferson dolomite Devonian and Mississippian systems Three...unit_ Upper black shale unit Slim Sam formation Elkhorn Mountains volcanics____ General features Distribution...related rocks Younger intrusive rocks Stocks near Elkhorn Black Butte stock Cemetery Ridge stock Stock of...Evolution of land forms Metallic mineral deposits Elkhorn district Geology Types of deposits Replacement deposits
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Caldwell Stone Company quarry, Danville, Boyle County. Terry Huizing specimen and photo. K entucky...Commonwealth is Black Mountain in the Appalachians (Harlan County) at 4,139 feet. The lowest point is the floor of...of the Reed quarry near Grand Rivers (Livingston County) in western Kentucky, at 100 feet below sea level...small, nondiamondiferous kimberlite in Elliott County in eastern Kentucky and alnöite intrusions in Crittenden...described in Anderson (1994). The most widespread mining in Kentucky is coal. More than 7.4 billion tons
Report (volume)
Resources of the Elkhorn Wilderness Study Area, Broadwater and jefferson Counties, Montana U.S. GEOLOGICAL...1805 MONTANA Mineral Resources of the Elkhorn Wilderness Study Area, Broadwater and Jefferson Counties...Counties, Montana By WILLIAM R. GREENWOOD, STEVE LUDINGTON, WILLIAM R. Ml LLER, and WILLIAM F. HANNA With...resources of the Elkhorn Wilderness Study Area, Broadwater and Jefferson Counties, Montana. (Studies related...1. Mines and mineral resources-Montana-Elkhorn Wilderness. 2. Elkhorn Wilderness (Mont.) I. Greenwood
Report (issue)
SURVEY Mineral Resources of the Elkhorn Wilderness Study Area, Montana A cooperative study by the U.S...rocks Igneous rocks Elkhorn Mountains Volcanics Intrusive rocks related to Elkhorn Mountains T7.-% T /...Silver-lead-zinc replacement deposit':?.. Elkhorn-Tizer Basin zone Elkhorn district -»_»_.,H"1 -? r7Q f i-L^ifciL... __ -- . __««.»____.____ ,_«.___._ .~.__ -« Jefferson City zone Base- and precious metal-bearing quartz...Ridge prospect Breccia pipe deposits Skyline Mine Blackjack Mine Chicago and Last Hope Mines Group I - Precious-
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Photographs January/February: Chalcopyrite on quartz, La Mine de Giraud, La Gardette, Bourg d’Oisan, Isère, France...Herkimer Diamond Mines, Inc., New port, Herkimer County, New York. Jeffrey B. Fast specimen and photo....cleavelandite, 49er Pocket, Oceanview mine, Pala district, San Diego County, California. Bill Larson specimen...photo. September/October: Gold, Mockingbird mine, Mariposa County, California. Collector’s Edge Minerals,...Treasure Chest Pocket, Jacksons Crossroads, Wilkes County, Georgia. Lisa Bennett specimen, Jeff Scovil photo
Report (volume)
of the Townsend Valley Broadwater and Jefferson Counties,x Montana GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 1042-N...OF THE TOWNSEND VALLEY BROADWATER AND JEFFERSON COUNTIES, MONTANA By V. L. FREEMAN, E. T. RUPPEL, and M...Valley, a broad intermontane basin in west-central Montana, extends from Toston to Canyon Ferry. The area...unconformity. The Maywood formation is overlain by the Jefferson dolomite of Devonian age, and the Three Forks...andesitic sandstone; and the Elkhorn Mountains volcanics. In the map area the Elkhorn Mountains volcanics are
Report (issue)
Deposits of the Jefferson City QuadranglJefferson and Lewis and Clark Counties, Montana By GEORGE E....1922Geology and mineral deposits of the Jefferson City quadrangl~, ·Jefferson and Lewis and Clark Counties, Montarra...deposits of the Jefferson City quadrangle, J e:fferson and Lewis and Cl ark Counties, Montana. 1963. (Card...2) 1 1. 'Geology-Montana-.Jefferson City quadrangle. 2. Ore-depositsMontana-Jefferson C:ity quadrangle...quadrangle. 3. Mines and mineral resources-Montana-Jefferson City quadrangle. I. Pinckney, Darrell Mayne, 1925-
Report (issue)
Alaska.. a Includes 550 tons from Davis, Murray County, Okla. 'Production to 1934 only. PART 1. GENERAL...province: Friedensville, Pa. Austinville, Va. Mascot-Jefferson City, Tenn. Embreeville, Tenn. Interior and Ozark...fluorspar-zinc district Upper Mississippi Valley zinc-lead district Valle Mines, Mo. Tri-State zinc district Arkansas...province : Leadville, Colo. Aspen district, Colo. Spring Creek diStrict, Colo. Monarch-Tomichi districts...Cottonwood district, Utah Northern Rocky Mountains province: Mineral Hill (Halley) district, Idaho Alder
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...lands within parts of five counties: Broadwater, Jefferson, Meagher, Powell, and Lewis and Clark. * Gold...was discovered in the region in Powell County in 1852. Mining began in the 1860's, and since then the
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
The specimen was found in a Joplin, Missouri, district mine in the late 1800s and was donated to the Carnegie...barite mines of Missouri’s several world-class mining districts could have been chosen for this issue’s...these metals, such as smithsonite, hemimorphite, cerussite, and anglesite. However, late in the nineteenth...crystal morphology and color were recovered from a mine in the Joplin area. The best known of these specimens...the Harborside open pit of Callahan Mining Company, Hancock County, Maine. Small, well-formed hemimorphite
Report (issue)
Petrology of the Northern Elkhorn Mountains I I Jefferson and Broadwater Counties, Montana GEOLOGICAt ' SURVEY...Northern Ell(horn Mountains Jefferson. and Broadwater CountieS, Montana By HARRY w. SMEDES GEOLOGICAL...Interpretation of the relation between facies ___ _ Elkhorn Mountains Volcanics Lower unit ________________________________...and petrology __________________ _ Alteration of Elkhorn ~ountains Volcanics and intrusive rocks _________________...of the northern Elkhorn Mountains. 2. Fence diagram of part of the northern Elkhorn Mountains. 3. lRange
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
cookrob@auburn.edu Linarite Mammoth–St. Anthony Mine, Tiger, Pinal County, Arizona O f the blue minerals, azurite...brochantite, caledonite, malachite, aurichalcite, cerussite, anglesite, leadhillite, hemimorphite, and chrysocolla...occurrences including the Cape Rosier mine at Brooksville, Hancock County, where it was found with smithsonite...Jones mine at Garland (King and Foord 1994). It is known in microcrystals from the Mascot mine (Graham...(Graham or Galena King mine), Coos County, and Mineral Hill near Wakefield, Carroll County, New Hampshire. It
Report (issue)
RECONNAISSANCE OF BASIN-BOULDER-CLANCEY AREA, JEFFERSON COUNTY, MONTANA By Millard L. Reyner Division of Raw... 1 Alice claim 1 2 Beavertown ranch Bullion mine. . . Carbonate claiu . . . . . OOOOO . OOOOO ....Josephine mine OO . •••••••• OOOO King Solomon mine 8 Liverpool mine 8 Lnne Eagle mine . . . . OOOOOOOOOOO...OOOOOOOOOOO . • 9 10 Meadow mine ?,count' 1r Queen and Jack nines • • . • • • • • Nickelodeon claim...Index map of northern Boulder batholith Lrza, Montana, showing mines and prospects examined for radioactivity
Report (volume)
of the Basin Quadrangle Jefferson, Lewis and Clark, and Powell Counties, Montana By EDWARD T. RUPPEL GEOLOGICAL...the Basin quadrangle, Jefferson, Leis and Clark, and Powell Counties, Montana. Washington, U.S. Govt...119-121. 1. Geology Montana Basin quadrangle. 2. Mines and mineral resources Montana Basin quadrangle.... I. Title: Basin quadrangle. Montana. (Series) For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government...formation ________________________________________ Elkhorn Mountains volcanics---------------------------
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
yellowsubstance from everyoxidizedore bodyin the district. No specimenof genuinemassiotis now known to have...beenmined, and in much of the ore of the Caledonia mine the valuable metals were contained in this mineral...Sulphantimonites other than tetrahedrite are rare in this district and the bindhiemite seemsto rep- resenta pseudomorph...Poorman,Morning and numerous other minesin this district. The material usuallyis a little less rich in...color associatedwith limohire and cerussitefrom this mine, upon analysisyielded the following results: 2Rat•some
Report (issue)
X-ray Powder Pattern: Sterling Hill, New Jersey, USA. 3.104 (100), 6.60 (86), 3.288 (75), 3.296 (73),...Total 100.75 100.00 (1) Pulaski Co., Virginia, USA. (2) Zn4 Si2 O7 (OH)2 ² H2 O: Occurrence: deposits...Association: Smithsonite, sphalerite, galena, cerussite, anglesite, calcite, aurichalcite, rosasite, hydrozincite...and Altenberg, Saxony. In the Sa Duchessa mine, Oridda district, Sardinia, Italy. Large crystals from Nerchinsk...Siberia, Russia. At Tchah Kuh, Esfahan, Iran. In the USA, at Franklin and Sterling Hill, Ogdensburg, Sussex
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Elbaite in quartz, 6 × 9 cm, Chesterfield, Hampshire County, Massachusetts. Holmes collection. Specimen received...nineteenth-century mineral collecting in North America. Mining was very much in its infancy in Canada, and Holmes’...139 Figure 8. Copper, 14.8 × 13 cm, Copper Queen mine, Bisbee, Arizona. Douglas collection, Peter Tarassoff...John G. Miller (1841–1885) was active in phosphate mining in Quebec and later in Puerto Rico (Hogarth 1983)...He is known to have supplied specimens from his mining properties to the mineral dealer A. E. Foote. His
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
University] at 01:02 21 December 2014 79 Mine, Gila County, Arizona E veryone likes blue minerals....including the Harborside mine at Brooksville, Hancock County, and the Lubec lead mine and prospects at Pembroke...Washington County. It has also been found at the old lead mines at Middletown, Middlesex County, Connecticut;...Easthampton, Hampshire County, Massachusetts; the old Gorham (Mascot mine), Coos County, New Hampshire; as...iron mine at Andover, and as an accessory mineral at Franklin and Sterling Hill, Sussex County, New Jersey;
Journal (issue)
Carolina). Chalcedony after interstices from Chester County, Pa., has been described by Vaux, G., 1935] ...Brochanthite after Azurite. Good Springs, Nevada Cerussite after Fremontite. Canion City, Colorado Delafossite...Bisbee, Arizona Chalcocite after Sphalerite. Butte, Montana Grossularite after Diopside. Vask6, Hungary Gypsum...witherite after barite, fluorite after calcite, cerussite after anglesite, calamine after sphalerite, dolomite...of witherite after aragonite, anglesite after cerussite, barite after witherite, barite after gypsum.)
Report (volume)
Geology of the Canyon Ferry Quadrangle, Montana By JOHN B. MERTIE, JR., RICHARD P. FISCHER, and S....system_ _____________________________________ Jefferson limestone ______________________ ~__________ Three...bentonite deposits northeast of Winston, Broadwater County, Mont ____________________________ In pocket FIGURE...and parallels 46°30' and 46°45' in west-central Montana. As a new dam on the Missouri River is to be built...irrigate large tracts of land in the valleys of Jefferson, Madison and Gallatin Rivers, the headwaters of
Report (volume)
1902. Minneapolis, Minn. American Institute of Mining Engineers: Transactions, vols. 31 and 32, 1902...Canada. Canadian Mining Institute: Journal, vol. 5, 1902! Ottawa, Canada, Canadian Mining Review, vol. 21... 2 and 3, 1902. Cincinnati, Ohio. . ' Colorado Mining Bureau: Bulletin, no". 5; Eeport, 1902. Denver...1, 1902. Chapel Hill, N. 0. ' Engineering and Mining Journal, vols. 73 and 74, 1902. New York,-N. Y...Institution of Mining and Metallurgy: Transactions, vol. 10, 1902. London, England. Institution of Mining Engineers:
 
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