 | | 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...rank among the finest in the world. The best of Butte pyrite compares with the best anywhere. Handsome...Handsome specimens of barite, quartz, rhodochrosite, silver, and numerous other species have been found, many...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...STATE, Montana is rich in mineral and gemstone localities. The state motto, Ora y Plata meaning “gold and...and silver,” and the state seal with its representation of mining tools clearly proclaim Montana’s mining...Montana’s production of copper, coal, gold, lead, manganese, phosphate, silver, talc, vermiculite, and zinc is...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: |  | | 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) | | 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) | | pohwatp@si.edu ENARGITE Longfellow Mine, Red Mountain District, San Juan County, Colorado Are all things beautiful...north orebody of the Longfellow mine, Red Mountain district, San Juan County, Colorado. Specimen is 2.5 cm...Figure 2. Enargite trilling from Butte, Silver Bow County, Montana. Twin is 5 mm across and is on the... lustrous enargite crystals from Butte, Silver Bow County, Montana. The specimen is 5 cm across. William...sedimentary-hosted lead-zinc deposits of the Tri-State district in the United States. It is known to replace pyrite |  | | Report (volume) | | Director Bulletin 955-E FLUORSPAR PROSPECTS OP MONTANA BY CLYDE P. ROSS Contributions to economic geology...near Anaconda, Deer Lodge County-_______________ Silver Bow prospect, Silver Bow County__________________________...ILLUSTRATIONS Page PLATE 18. A, General view of East Butte from the south; B, View down Sage Creek from the..._______ 28. Geologic and topographic map of the Silver Bow fluorspar 209 prospect--...---------------...--- In pocket FIGURE 6. Index map of part of Montana, showing the mapped fluorsparbearing areas and |  | | 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...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; |  | | 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 |  | | 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...abundant it may have been completely exhausted by mining or quarrying. Deposits of minerals that are widely...because they occur in sufficient quantity to warrant mining for their usual products, but because they furnish |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | METALLIC MINERALS SILVER AS AND PRECIPITANTS OF GOLD. • CHASE PALMER AND EDSON S. BASTIN. INTRODUCTION...metallicsilver and gold. If a piece of chalcociteis hung in a dilute aqueoussolutionof silver sulphate (•/4o...is immersedin a silver solution. The efficacyof chalcociteas a pre- cipitantof gold is strikinglyshownif...solutionof gold chloridepoured upon it. Two or three shakesof the tube sufficeto remove all the gold from the...Detailedquantitative studieswere also made of the reaction of silver sulphate solutionwith chalcociteand niccoliteso |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | of their theories, and also credit a number of mining engineers,suchas Jas. Douglas,T. Sterry Hunt and...pp. •77-2•7. Weed, W. H.: The enrichment of gold and silver veins. Idem, pp. 424-448. • Penrose,R. A. F...Romans in Spain. 4 Hunt, T. S.: The Ore Knob copper mine and some related deposits. Am. Inst. Min. Eng. Trans...50lcott, E. E.: Ore Knob copper mine and reduction works, Ashe County, N. C. Am. Inst. Min. Eng. Trans...mentionsthe suggestionsof JamesDouglas8 with respectto Butte, whichwere as follows: The mines which lie at the |  | | 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 |  | | Journal (issue) | | Record Inc. Articles The Bunker Hill mine, Kellogg, Shoshone County, Id a h o 339 by N. Radford and J...the Niobec mine, Chicoutimi, Quebec .....................355 by I. Kennedy and G. Gagnon Minerals of...of the Yates uranium mine, Pontiac County, Quebec . 359 by D. L. Leavitt Shavano Peak . . . a new Mt...— December, 1981 Bunker Hill the mine kellogg, shoshone county, idaho by Norman Radford P. O. Box N...California 94560 he Bunker Hill mine in the famous Coeur D ’Alene district of Idaho has produced some of |  | | 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 |  | | Book (edition) | | .- ,: --- . :i! __;,;,,~ • ·. I ..' - ros I Gold Prospectors Ass ociation of America P. 0. Box 891509...- 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...listed from north to south), directions and mining commen ts; gold-producing areas, general prospecting regulations |  | | Report (volume) | | precipitation of the metalo........ Composition of mine waters............................................of sulphide enrichment Continued. Composition of mine waters Continued. Discussion of analyses Continued............................................ Gold and silver..............................................on depth..................... Precipitates from mine waters under superficial conditions....... Oxidation...relations and minerals of silver........................... Principal silver minerals................ |  | | Report (volume) | | _____________________ Zinc-____________ ________ Gold and silver________ _____________ Changes in composition...depth__________ Precipitates from mine waters under superficial conditions_ Composition of mine waters of the Jopliu-region___________...Copper-bearing deposits________________________ 199 Butte, Montana__________________________ 199 Bingham,...Arizona__________________________ 208 Note on the Bisbee district, Arizona, by F. L. Ransome_ 209 Globe and Miami...Mexico____________________ 22J Burro Mountain district, New Mexico_____________ 222 , Cananea, Mexico | | | 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 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Structural Geologic Evolution of the Butte District, Montana Robert A. Houston†,* and John H. Dilles...Bldg., Corvallis, Oregon 97331 Abstract The Butte district contains two porphyry Cu-Mo deposits and the...and folding in southwest Montana. New geologic mapping of the Butte district reveals three distinct episodes...that are limited to the northwest part of the district and synchronous with the eruption of the Lowland...fluid inclusion data indicate that exposures of the Butte Granite, which hosts mineralization, crystallized |  | | Report (issue) | | Geology and Mineral Resources New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology Socorro, NM 87801 ginger@gis.nmt...rocks. District zonation is defined by Cu-REE-F (±Pb, Zn, Ag) veins that form center of the district, surrounded...OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION 8 METHODS OF STUDY 10 MINING AND EXPLORATION HISTORY AND PREVIOUS INVESTIGATIONS.................................... 13 FIGURE 2. Mining districts and areas in New Mexico that contain...... 14 FIGURE 3. Mining districts and igneous intrusions forming the Lincoln County porphyry belt (LCPB; |  | | Journal (issue) | | this explain why Hydroseals Tee IN THE MAJOR MINING PUMPS PROTECTED CENTERS OF THE WORLD Most...machines like the “Caterpillar” Diesel products mining throughout the world. Tractors. Bulldozers, Motor...repiling bauxite and loading trucks for Reynolds Mining Corporation, near Hurricane Creek, Arkansas. CATERPILLAR...JJ SYD)! te up in a wooden pail. Missouri lead mine about 1890. —_—— ; eee if atOT ace | | Horse...fashioned blasting methods and other inefficient mining techniques have become so drill pattern and loading |  | | 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 |  | | Book | | [ [ 23 I 1992 [ 65-128 65-136 65-128 1-96 GOLD-II] 1-112 MMEE•] 25 I 1994 1-80 ARIZONA-I] ...ARIZONA-Ill] 337--400 257-336 [ 257-320 [ [ GOLD-I ] 321--412 ARIZONA-V] 265-352 257-320 353-400...15th annual FM-TGMS-MSA Mineralogical Symposium: silver (chairman R. W. Graeme) 25:69-76 New minerals recently...On a spectacular find of crocoite in the Adelaide mine, Dundas, Tasmania (by A. H. Chapman) 3:111-113 ADOLFSSON...Iaria from the Howard-Montgomery quarry, Howard County, Maryland (by J. S. White) 25:53-54 AFGHANISTAN |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Fluorite-Parisite Mineralization in the Snowbird Deposit, Montana IAIN M. SAMSON,† Department of Earth Sciences,...earth element (REE) deposit, located in western Montana, is unusual in that it is characterized by very...genetically to mineralization in the Coeur d’Alene district. Fluid inclusions in quartz, fluorite, ankerite...genetically to the base metal and silver mineralization of the Coeur d’Alene district, which generally have been...Introduction THE COEUR D’ALENE mineral district of northern Idaho and Montana (Fig. 1) is well known for Ag-Pb-Zn |
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