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Calcite from
Brown's Gulch, Alder Gulch Mining District (Virginia City Mining District; Fairweather Mining District), Madison County, Montana, USA


Locality type:Gulch
Classification
Species:Calcite
Formula:CaCO3
Comments:The calcite occurs in the center of plagioclase crystals.
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Calcite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Brown's Gulch, Alder Gulch Mining District (Virginia City Mining District; Fairweather Mining District), Madison County, Montana, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:705926
Long-form Identifier:1:3:705926:1
GUID (UUID V4):e17a937c-8bb6-436f-a822-d47323609def
Nearest other occurrences of Calcite
10.5km (6.5 miles) Bull Frog Mine, Greenhorn Range, Madison County, Montana, USA
19.3km (12.0 miles) Silver Bullion Mine, Sheridan Mining District (Mill Creek Mining District; Wisconsin Mining District), Madison County, Montana, USA
25.6km (15.9 miles) Red Pine Mine, Sheridan Mining District (Mill Creek Mining District; Wisconsin Mining District), Madison County, Montana, USA
31.1km (19.3 miles) Sweetwater Deposit, Ruby Range, Madison County, Montana, USA
31.7km (19.7 miles) Yellowstone Mine, Gravelly Range, Madison County, Montana, USA
32.3km (20.1 miles) Bryzant Mine (Deutschland Mine), Tidal Wave Mining District, Madison County, Montana, USA
36.2km (22.5 miles) Hamilton Prospects (Hamilton No. 1 and No. 2.), Tidal Wave Mining District, Madison County, Montana, USA
43.5km (27.0 miles) Unnamed Cu occurrence [6], Ruby Range, Beaverhead County, Montana, USA
43.6km (27.1 miles) Unnamed Cu occurrence [10], Ruby Range, Beaverhead County, Montana, USA
43.6km (27.1 miles) Unnamed Cu occurrence [11], Ruby Range, Beaverhead County, Montana, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
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
Book (edition)
Lincoln, of Mesa, Ariz., Frank Bogart Bean of Madison, Wis., Stephen Taber C, L Grossman of Grand Forks..."scratched" scratch was Many which is area, Wet is calcite, a pocket knife blade tests, make sure that...from them weather the types of agates found in Montana. Metamorphic rocks include those of either of the...associated with such rocks. Because hard rock mining amateur will usually get is tedious and expensive...the summer; neither is it wise to prospect in Montana or Maine in the as the winter. An scope, and
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
introduction, I have been engaged in ex­ ploration and mining in the San Juan Mountains of southwestern Colorado...rehabilitation and mining have been confined to the east end of the Camp Bird vein. With renewed mining, a few mineral...are chalcopyrite, pyrite, sphalerite, galena, calcite, and quartz. Secondary minerals present are ferrimolybdite...level surface area of the Camp Bird mine, Ouray County. The portal is left center with snowshedcovered...driven below the old workings. The Sneffels mining district, a large silver producer in the 1870s and 1880s
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 (edition)
describes sites under of the nearest town and county. and the many maps included book contain such...Chicago, Illinois, Marcus Daly Pruett of Butte, Montana, Walter Wright of the Prospectors Shop and Herbert...beryl belong here, as well as the variations that calcite plays on the basic form. The orthorhombic system...older rocks. The Indiana and Iowa geodes and the Montana moss agates are produced from break such beds...the sapphires in the Missouri River near Helena, Montana, and the star rocks, garnets of Idaho. DISTRIBUTION
Book (edition)
MARIN COUNTY FREE LIBRARY 3 1111 00289 4184 \ I s Fifth Revised Edition A complete, state-by-state...Orthoclase feldspar 2. Gypsum 7. Quartz 3. Calcite 8. Topaz 4. Fluorite 9. Corundum 5. Apatite...gypsum, and a copper coin is just about as hard as calcite. A pocketknife blade will scratch apatite easily...gem minerals. A sharp sliver of agate, such as Montana moss agate, is also useful to test minerals near...belong here, as well as the many variations that calcite plays on the basic form. The orthorhombic system
Report (volume)
so successful. Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Co. Mining Machinery Dept. OFFICES For Canadian MILWAUKEE...service from Superior Jaw Crusher Worthington mining equipment the from the standpoint of first cost...most wear, Worthington meets the needs of the mining industries with a complete line of products, from...Mills PUMPS, COMPRESSORS, OIL AND GAS ENGINES, MINING AND SMELTING MACHINERY CTON JOHN D. RYAN, ...OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE ANACONDA COPPER MINING Co., WHOSE BUTTE MlNES YIELD 10% OF THE
Report (issue)
Geological Survey Board and the Colorado Metal Mining Fund ~ oopr is PUBliC P[O'J>ERTY aud 1• DOt ~re~~o~...__________________________________________ _ 1 Summary of mining districts---.---------------------Introduction..._____________________ _ Copper deposits in Jefferson County __ _ F. M.D. property _____________ _ Malachite..._______________________ _ 68 68 68 68 Lone Chimney, Mill Gulch, and Copper King mines _____________________ _ Nisley...Cherry Creek and Douglas County placers _________________________ _ Mining districts in the mineral belt
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...D. Del prat Brown, Walter 8 A Filing System for Mining Engineers llucke, Horace W The Meaning of stria
Report (issue)
Mountains I I Jefferson and Broadwater Counties, Montana GEOLOGICAt ' SURVEY PROFESSIONAL Prepared partly...Mountains Jefferson. and Broadwater CountieS, Montana By HARRY w. SMEDES GEOLOGICAL URVEY PROFESSIONAL...ELKHORN MOUNTAINS JEFFERSON AND BROADWATER COUNTIES, MONTANA BY HARRY ABSTRACT The northern Elkhorn Mountains...area of about 132 square miles in west-central Montana. The area includes parts of four major geologic...limestone of /the Lower and Upper Mississippian Madison Group, divided into a thin-bedded lower unit, the
Journal (volume)
going to push it with the energy that has made that city famous. The exposition will be planned after that...000 in dividends during the year, §2,000,000. Mining and Scientific Press distributed among the fortunate...largely to the prosThe perity of this section of the county. business men of the town seems to be drifting...ascribe it to, but think it is stipulated Wickes, Montana, [Written (or tlio Presb by our Traveling Correspoudenfc...G. Huston.] Wickes is one of the prosperous mining camps tributary to Helena as a base of supplies
Show/Event (guide)
Arizona 85715 Editor and Publisher Map of the City .............................. 31 Wendell E. Wilson...a little background on the city itself. Tucson is today a fast-growing city of well over half a million...for over a thou­ sand years, making it the oldest city in North America. In fact, it may have been occupied...independence from Spain and hoisted a new flag over the city. The American Mormon Bat­ talion took over the town...exhibit, it does have a well-designed historical mining gallery including a reconstructed mine tunnel Off
Report (issue)
thick Catskill delta. At least 9,000 in eastern Montana, western North Dakota, and northfeet of relatively...'------~-'t-------,_,,__ AUTAUQUA~--'l.~-1 V / o MONTANA UPLiFT ;;_~ --~-- .'1/ It 0 - .._,rv4t 'I'...northwest-trending ancestral Cedar Creek anticline in eastern Montana, southwestern North Dakota, and northwestern South...deposition of these beds. The east-trending Central Montana uplift also may have been slightly positive at...-,-- 1----- <~i ';' r: 1-:~-~ <: "(: 1' Y CITY BAs 1N l .l ~:v ':t:!}: T / 1 UPL11FT I
 
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