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Limonite from
Snowbird Mine, Cedar Creek Mining District, Mineral County, Montana, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:'Limonite' (not an IMA approved species)
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Limonite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Snowbird Mine, Cedar Creek Mining District, Mineral County, Montana, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:599700
Long-form Identifier:1:3:599700:8
GUID (UUID V4):07071f3d-4fc0-49b3-a370-c40921d930ac
Nearest other occurrences of Limonite
27.2km (16.9 miles) Copper Smith Occurrence, Petty Creek, Petty Creek District, Missoula County, Montana, USA
49.4km (30.7 miles) Nine Mile Mine, Nine Mile Mining District, Missoula County, Montana, USA
62.1km (38.6 miles) Lucky Strike Mine, Green Mountain Mine (Green Mountain Copper Mine; Drake Mine; Mayflower Lode - MS No. 10911; Dixon; See Lucky Strike - 0300890034), Sanders County, Montana, USA
62.6km (38.9 miles) Blue Ox Mine, Sanders County, Montana, USA
69.3km (43.0 miles) Eureka prospect, St. Joe Mining District, Shoshone County, Idaho, USA
69.8km (43.4 miles) Ward prospect, St. Joe Mining District, Shoshone County, Idaho, USA
73.3km (45.5 miles) Iron Cap Mine, Sapphire Mountains Area, Ravalli County, Montana, USA
73.7km (45.8 miles) Glaucus Mine (Glaucus-Cardiff; Herman), Sanders County, Montana, USA
75.1km (46.7 miles) Claremont Mine, Sapphire Mountains Area, Ravalli County, Montana, USA
76.4km (47.5 miles) Cleveland Mine, Eight Mile Mining District, Ravalli County, Montana, USA
References
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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...known as the duckbill dinosaur. Although a state mineral has not been designated, there are two official...gem and mineral literature has been published describing the occurrence, collecting, mining, and cutting
Journal (issue)
photomicrography: Julius Weber Mamaroneck, New York Famous Mineral Localities —The Pulsifer Quarry......................................78 by Pete J. Dunn The snowbird Mine, Montana’s Parisite Loca lity.................R. Lasmanis The Clear Creek Pegmatite: A Rare Earth Pegmatite in Burnet County, Texas..................J - Bridge, J.L. Daniels, and M.W. Pryce A New Mineral: Perloffite, The Fe*+ Analogue of B jarebyite.... 112 by Anthony Robert Kampf The Harding Mine, Taos County, New Mexico......................... 115 by
Report (issue)
IEON DEPOSITS OF RUNNING WOLT DISTRICT JTJDIffi BASIN COUNTY, MONTANA by G. S. Goodspeed CONTENTS Page...Ihe iron ore deposits of the Running Wolf-Willow Creek area ............ 1 1 4 Character of the ores........... Other analyses from the Running Wolf district. Le Roi (Iroquois) and Iron King claims ........east of Republican Creek ............ Miscellaneous deposits ................. Sage Creek .................map, Running Wbif iron deposit, Judith Basin County, Montana . . In pocket Plate 2 Cross-sections, longitudinal
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... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . • .. 37 Goose Creek area . . . . _ __ . . . _ .. . _ __ . _ . _ . .
Report (volume)
DONALD A. BROBST A CONTRIBUTION TO BIBLIOGRAPHY OF MINERAL RESOURCES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 1019-C...pocket m .A CONTRIBUTION TO BIBLIOGRAPHY OF MINERAL RESOURCES ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY AND INDEX MAP...Barite is now ranked as an important non-metallic mineral commodity because of its extensive use in weighting...Georgia have been the major sources of barite since mining began there in 1872, 1902, and 1914 respectively...respectively. Deposits in Arkansas, Arizona, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, and New Mexico have been developed extensively
Report (volume)
WILDERNESS Mineral Resources of the Big Frog Wilderness Study Area and Additions, Polk County, Tennessee...Tennessee, and Fannin County, Georgia By John F. Slack, U.S. Geological Survey, and by Gertrude C. Gazdik and...GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 1531 An evaluation of the mineral potential of the area UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT... John F. Mineral resources of the Big Frog wilderness study area and additions, Polk County, Tennessee...Tennessee and Fannin County, Georgia. (Studies related to wilderness-study areas) (Geological Survey bulletin
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
Report (issue)
Sulfides From a Tungsten-bearing Quartz Lode Big Creek District Central Idaho GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL...Sulfides From a Tungsten-bearing Quartz Lode Big Creek District Central Idaho By B. F. LEONARD, CYNTHIA W....silver and inverted Ag-Fe-S mineral in pyrite. Index map of parts of Big Creek and Yellow Pine districts...Semiquantitative spectrograptic analyses of handpicked mineral fractions of sulfide concentrates, McRae Tungsten...Tungsten Corp. milL___ 5. Minerals of the New Snowbird deposit _____________ --------------··-------------------
Report (issue)
of Mineral Resources Jasper L. Stuckey, State Geologist Bulletin Number 60 Geology and Mineral Resources...Resources OF THE Hot Springs Window, Madison County, North Carolina By Steven S. Oriel Prepared in Cooperation...Bulletin 60, "Geology and Mineral Resources of the Hot Springs Window, Madison County, North Carolina." This...area from the stand point of both the geology and mineral resources. It is believed that this report will...Distribution 24 Character _ 24 Weathering 25 Snowbird formation Name Limits Distribution Character Mylonites
Journal (issue)
Desautels Mineralogy and Paragenesis of the 79 Mine Lead-Zinc-Copper Deposit..........................Md. 20 71 5 WULFENITE on mottramite from the 79 mine near Hayden, Arizona. The large crystal measures...carry so many references large enough number of mineral enthusiasts to assure its financial stability....letters, notes, questions, articles, etc. be accur­ mineral hobbyists. A recent letter to me enu­ ate, moderately...volunteer repor­ he was speaking for ua number of mineral col­ ters to relate to us the activities of distant
Book (volume)
fossils, Illinois has little to offer gem and mineral collectors, even though the state produces more...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
Book (volume)
fossils, Illinois has little to offer gem and mineral collectors, even though the state produces more...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
Report (volume)
SMITH, Director Bulletin 626 THE ATLANTIC GOLI) DISTRICT AND THE NORTH LARAMIE MOUNTAINS PAPERS BY ARTHUR...................... The Atlantic gold district, Fremont County, Wyo........................... Introduction........................ Geology of the Atlantic district......................................... Rocks...Magnetite schists in the northern part of the district.............. 16 Distribution and general character........................ General outlook for lode mining.................................... Planning of
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Mineral News Vol. 13 /,Jo. 12 December, 199~ Weird The Mineral and Wonderful from Quartz Alberta's...years ago, about the same Lime as I discovered mineral collecting, the local sedimentary geology has proved...Alberta's oil patch), but it offers a real dearth of mineral collecting localities. Thus I was excited (though...Pernambuco, Brazil • Tungstenite is a relatively rare mineral and occurs only in a few locations world-wide,...Lyangara, Uzbekistan; and the Emma Mine, Little Cottonwood District, Salt Lake Co., Utah. In most locations
Journal (issue)
th is year, after repeated trips to the Getchell mine in northern Nevada, E. Forrest Cureton Il l, well...located a single boulder containing this very rare mineral. Mr. Cureton , on subsequent trips, combed the...Getchellite is rather attractive for so rare a mineral. It occurs in dark, blood-red 2 to 7 mm crystal...Frazier rare minerals fine minerals gemstones gem & mineral books superb minerals 0fine cut stones & facetting...Desautels Mineralogy and Paragenesis of the 79 Mine Lead-Zinc-Copper Deposit. ............. . . . .
Report (issue)
Bedrock Geology and Mineral Resources of the Knoxville 1°x2° Quadrangle, Tennessee, North Carolina, and...Cataloging in Publication Data Bedrock geology and mineral resources of the Knoxville 1°x2° quadrangle Tennessee...Geology—South Carolina. 4. Mines and mineral resources—Tennessee. 5. Mines and mineral resources—North Carolina.... 6. Mines and mineral resourcesSouth Carolina. I. Robinson, G.R. II. Series. QE75.B9 no. [QE 165] 557...Structure 20 Metamorphism 20 Geologic Summary 22 Mineral Resources 26 Introduction 26 Construction Materials
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collectors to the state from all over the world. Some Mineral Collecting Sites in North Carolina T H E C O L...permission, from Wilson and McKenzie's publication Mineral Collecting Sites in North Carolina: Information...comprehensive listing, including detailed spot locations on county road maps, refer to this publication, which can...The price is $5.00 plus 4% sales tax. Individual county road maps can be obtained from the North Carolina...Carolina 27611 B. J . M C K E N Z I E Alamance County Pyrophyllite, cacoxenite, diaspore, sericite, pyrite
Book (volume)
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:...barite pitsBarite, Geodes, Goethite, Hematite, Limonite, Iron minerals;  area mines, as important producersBarite
Report (issue)
IRON-ORE DEPOSITS NEAR STANFORD, MONTANA. By LEWIS G. WESTGATE. LOCATION. The iron ores known as the...are in Cascade and Fergus counties, in central Montana, on Running Wolf and Dry Wolf creeks, 12 miles...Scale FIGURE 8. Map of a part of north-central Montana showing the location of tho hematite deposits near...Woodhurst Mountain, the other 4 miles west, on Dry Wolf Creek. i Weed, W. H., U. S. Geol. Survey Geol. Atlas,...porphyry intrusion. Then crossing Running Wolf Creek they follow the dike connection over the mountain
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Geology and Mineral Resource Potential of the Chattanooga 1°X2° Quadrangle, Tennessee and North Carolina-A...GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 2005 Geology and Mineral Resource Potential of the Chattanooga 1°X2° Quadrangle...known mineral deposits, five tracts are delineated that are favorable for the occurrence of mineral resources...Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Geology and mineral resource potential of the Chattanooga 1°X2 quadrangle...I 19.3:2005 1. Mines and mineral resources- Tennessee. 2. Mines and mineral resources -North Carolina
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Geology of the South Pass Area, Fremont County, Wyoming By RICHARD W. BAYLEY, PAUL DEAN PROCTOR,· and...ld veins -----------------------Future of gold mining ------------------Iron -----------------------...__ Ore bodies -----------------------------Iron mining ----------------------------References cited -...------------Photographic view east across Rock Creek valley and Atlantic City -----------------------------Photographic...mountains --------------------4. The Carrisa gold mine near South Pass CitY---------------------------
Report (issue)
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. A sbestos ore Lead ore, Balmat mine, N . Y. Chromite-chromium ore, Washington Zinc ore...and descriptions of major United States fluorine mineral deposits UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE...024-001-02901-4 APPRAISAL OF MINERAL RESOURCES Continuing appraisal of the mineral resources of the United...Survey in accordance with the provisions of the Mining and Minerals Policy Act of 1970 (Public Law 91-631...discovered or not currently profitable to mine. The mining of mineral deposits, once they are discovered, depends
Report (volume)
Bedrock Geology and Mineral Resources of the Knoxville 1 °X2° Quadrangle, Tennessee, North Carolina,...GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 1979 Bedrock Geology and Mineral Resources of the Knoxville 1°X2° Quadrangle, Tennessee...Cataloging in Publication Data Bedrock geology and mineral resources of the Knoxville 1°X2° quadrangle Tennessee...Geology-South Carolina. 4. Mines and mineral resources- Tennessee. 5. Mines and mineral resources-North Carolina...Carolina. 6. Mines and mineral resourcesSouth Carolina. I. Robinson, G.R. II. Series. QE75.B9 no. 1979 [QE 165]
Report (volume)
Hazel Creek mines, Swain County, North Carolina, the Toncrae mine, Virginia, and the Stone Hill mine, Alabama...------------------------------Geology of Swain County copper district__________________________ Sedimentary...bodY------------------------------------------------Hazel Creek mine_____________________________________________...Counties, Alabama___________________________ Stone Hill mine ___________________________________________ - -...Swain County copper district, North Carolina. 2. Geologic map of the Fontana mine, Swain County, N.C.
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