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Chalcopyrite from
Prospect Mine, Alder Gulch Mining District (Virginia City Mining District; Fairweather Mining District), Madison County, Montana, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Chalcopyrite
Formula:CuFeS2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Chalcopyrite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Prospect Mine, Alder Gulch Mining District (Virginia City Mining District; Fairweather Mining District), Madison County, Montana, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:500204
Long-form Identifier:1:3:500204:7
GUID (UUID V4):8e75719e-ed5f-422e-b3b6-9ffe6a7be833
Nearest other occurrences of Chalcopyrite
1.9km (1.2 miles) U. S. Grant Mine, Alder Gulch Mining District (Virginia City Mining District; Fairweather Mining District), Madison County, Montana, USA
5.7km (3.6 miles) Winnetka Mine (Winnetaka Mine), Alder Gulch Mining District (Virginia City Mining District; Fairweather Mining District), Madison County, Montana, USA
9.3km (5.8 miles) Bull Frog Mine, Greenhorn Range, Madison County, Montana, USA
10.6km (6.6 miles) Janus Group, Alder Gulch Mining District (Virginia City Mining District; Fairweather Mining District), Madison County, Montana, USA
19.8km (12.3 miles) Unnamed Copper Prospect (MRDS - 10013904), Greenhorn Range, Madison County, Montana, USA
20.7km (12.9 miles) Latest Out Mine (1), Sheridan Mining District (Mill Creek Mining District; Wisconsin Mining District), Madison County, Montana, USA
21.2km (13.1 miles) Silver Bullion Mine, Sheridan Mining District (Mill Creek Mining District; Wisconsin Mining District), Madison County, Montana, USA
24.2km (15.1 miles) Buckeye Mine - Victoria Mines, Sheridan Mining District (Mill Creek Mining District; Wisconsin Mining District), Madison County, Montana, USA
26.4km (16.4 miles) Cherry Creek Pegmatite Occurrence, Varney Mining District, Madison County, Montana, USA
26.7km (16.6 miles) Occidental Mine (High Up; Oxidental), Sheridan Mining District (Mill Creek Mining District; Wisconsin Mining District), Madison 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...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
Report (issue)
RESTON, Virginia--503 National Center, Rm. 1C402, 12201 Sunrise Valley Dr. • SALT LAKE CITY, Utah--Federal...SHAWE Gold Deposits in the Virginia City-Alder Gulch District, Montana By DANIEL R. SHAWE and KENNETH...Shawe — Gold deposits in the Virginia City-Alder Gulch District, Montana / by Daniel R. Shawe and Kenneth... of Docs. no.: I 19.3:1857-G 1. Gold mines and mining—United States. 2. Placer deposits—United States...Chance district, MontanaG G9 Virginia CityAlder Gulch district, MontanaG G9 Boise Basin district, IdahoG
Report (issue)
(including the Virginia City mining district), Madison and Beaverhead Counties, southwest Montana: Mineral-resource...Muddy mining district Blacktail mining district Cherry Creek mining district Chinatown mining district...Prairie mining district Medicine Lodge mining district Monida mining district Pony mining district Red Bluff...Bluff mining district Revenue mining district Ruby Mountains mining district Sheridan mining district...district Silver Star mining district Virginia City mining district Mapleton mine Browns Gulch area Alameda-Cornucopia-U
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 .....:........................................
Report (issue)
INTERIOR GEOLOGICAL SURVEY MINERAL RESOURCES OF ELKO COUNTY, NEVADA By Roscoe M. Smith Prepared in cooperation...Acknowledgment -Mining districts Commodities Production Descriptions of mining districts . Alder district-Aura district...district -Beaver district Black Mountain district Bootstrap district Burner district Burns Basin district--...-Carlin district Cave Creek district ----Charleston district_--Coal Mine district~ Contact district Cornucopia...Cornucopia district - -Corral Creek district - Decoy district Delano district Delker districtDivide district
Report (issue)
Resource Area in Beaverhead and Madison Counties, southwestern Montana. These agencies use mineral resource...part of Beaverhead County, Montana, and the western part of Madison County, Montana. The study area (see...Bridges to Ennis; (3) The eastern boundary is the Madison River from Ennis to Raynolds Pass and State Highway...Pass south to the Montana-Idaho border; and (4) The southern boundary is the Montana-Idaho border (the...rocks in Montana, most notably from mines developed in the Stillwater Complex near Nye, Montana, in the
Book (volume)
Dahlonega Co. and Rabum Co., and  the McDuffie County Belt extending through portions of McDuffie, Warren...Gold, such as Chalcopyrite, Galena, Pyrite, Pyrrhotite and some Sphalerite. BALDWIN COUNTY MILLEDGEVILLE...MILLEDGEVILLE, at state farmjasper. BANKS COUNTY COMMERCE, along Hwy. 59, 5 mi. E of Jackson-Banks Co. lineBeryl...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)
23:14 19 October 2014 Vindicator Mine, Cripple Creek, Teller County, Colorado I n terms of sheer volume...globe, they have striking similarities in their mining history and mineralogy, but their geology is seemingly...ROCKS & MINERALS the Golden Circle mine at Sorrento and the Cline mine at Hancock, Maine, and from a vaguely...vaguely described locality near Monroe, Fairfield County, Connecticut. A compilation of telluride mineral...Consolidated mine at Dahlonega, Lumpkin County, Georgia; the Barite Hill gold mine in McCormick County, South
Book
5.95 and quickly informative.”— “Practical Virginia Kirkus RANGE GUIDE TO MINES AND MINERALS A by...stumble over a valuable nugget and stake your own mining claim? Indeed it to is, and author book Jay...prospecting, he points out, is in abandoned mining districts, where valuable mineral ores are present...commercial ores and secondary minerals by state, county, township, and geologic range. For easy identification...RANSOM 1875-1948 An to the Eastern '‘Schoolmarm” Mining Camps of the Old West I I a s I \ h K
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...Indianapolis. Iowa.............. Prof. George F. Kay, Iowa City. Kansas............Prof. Erasmus Haworth, University............Prof. George H. Perkins, Burlington. Virginia...........Dr. Thomas L. Watson, Charlottesville
Report (volume)
....................................... 102 District of Columbia ......................................... 139 144 146 153 158 163 169 . 172 174 Montana............................................................................................... Virginia......................................................................................... West Virginia.................................................to refer to Geological Survey Bulletin 507, "The mining districts of the western United States," and to
Book (volume)
..........................................258 Montana ...........................................................................................499 Virginia .....................................................................................525 West Virginia ...............................................................548 Table of Maps Page Alabama County Map ...................................................................................4 Alaska County and Stream Map ...............................
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...crystals). CRAWFORD COUNTY PALESTINE, area deposits⎯Siderite. EDWARDS COUNTY AREA, T. 1 S, R. 10 E...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...crystals). CRAWFORD COUNTY PALESTINE, area deposits⎯Siderite. EDWARDS COUNTY AREA, T. 1 S, R. 10 E...deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip mine⎯pyritized gastropods
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Montana, Treasure State for the Crystal Mineral Collector By GERALD J. NAVRATIL Bex 70, RFD 7, Middleburg...crystal mineral localities within the state of Montana. Quite accurately the state has been officially...mineralminded public. The well-publicized Butte copper district has been ignored since the writer feels certain...known. Amcnnpijiite: In the Emery Mining district (Powell County) the mineral is found in wellformed...Crevasse Mountain Mining district near Jardine (Park County). At the Kennebec mine in the Crevasse Mountain
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)
BULLETIN 527 ORE DEPOSITS OF THE HELENA MINING REGION MONTANA BY ADOLPH KNOPF WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT............................ Historical sketch of mining............................................................................................... Madison limestone.......................................................................... Marysville district.......................................................... Drumlummon mine........................................... Cruse mine.......:.............
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...References cited F. Mineral resource geology of mining districts/areas Lincoln Region by R.G. Tysdal,
Book (volume)
..........................................221 Montana ...........................................................................................408 Virginia .....................................................................................429 West Virginia ................................................rights, so remember you were told. If in doubt, a county map will tell you who the legal owner is. Good...gemmy qualities for cutting and polishing. AUTAUGA COUNTY PRATTVILLE, N. 6 mi., and just E of the Birmingham
Book (volume)
..........................................221 Montana ...........................................................................................408 Virginia .....................................................................................431 West Virginia ................................................rights, so remember you were told. If in doubt, a county map will tell you who the legal owner is. Good...gemmy qualities for cutting and polishing. AUTAUGA COUNTY PRATTVILLE, N. 6 mi., and just E of the Birmingham
Report (issue)
decide whether a certain metalliferous deposit or district should be included or not. The problem was also...other forms) since 1935 is reviewed. New sulfur mining and recovery projects in the United States and...chemical properties of sulfur, the geology and mining operations of the salt-dome sulfur deposits, the...sulfur by superheated water through wells at Sulphur mine, Louisiana, are fully detailed. Exploration and...Swager, W. L. , and Sullivan, J. D. , 1951, Sulphur: Mining Engineering, vol. 3. , pp. 403409. The history
Report (volume)
Director Bulletin 842 OF THE GREATER HELENA MINING REGION MONTANA BY J. T. PARDEE and F. C. SCHRADER UNITED...______________________-__-_________--_------___-_ Ophir district.________________________________________________...__________---__--_-___ Austin district._.____..._..._._.____._____.____.___-.___._____ Marysville district.___________...___________________________________________ Gould district._______________________________________________ Stemple...._ Heddleston district.___________________________________________ Wolf Creek district.._..........__
Report (issue)
Porphyry and Other Molybdenum Deposits of Idaho and Montana Joseph E. Worthington Idaho Geological Survey...Mountain Prospect—45 ...................................................... 3 Rocky Bar District—43 ................................... 3 Devil’s Creek Prospect—46 ................................................................................ 6 Emigrant Gulch—7 ..................................................................................... 8 Miners Gulch—10 ............................................
Report (issue)
ever since. Besides the La Grange mine, the largest hydraulic mine now in active operation, it contains...mines, particularly in the northern portion of the county. Large bodies of gravel of lower grade yet remain...supply, via French Gulch 38 miles to Lewiston, and from Red Bluff via Harrison Gulch about 50 miles to...Douglas City; Mr. J. J. Murphy, of the Union Hill mine; Mr. Pierre Bouery, of the La Grange mine; Mr. W...Globe mine; but more particularly to Mr. H. L. Lowden, formerly county surveyor of Trinity County, who
Book
Montana Hodges Robert Feldman Shaded relief indicates terrain and slope. Second Edition Rockhounding...longitude numbers and grid ticks are GPS compatible. Montana Enhanced detail shows more symbols, labels, and...history Cover photos of Montana agate (front) and ammonite imprint (back) © Montana Hodges Cover design by...imprint of The Globe Pequot Press MONTANA Search for stunning Montana agate along the Yellowstone River...Bar Sapphire Mine. Help paleontologists excavate dinosaurs in Malta. Rockhounding Montana points the way
 
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