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| 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 |
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| 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...Plata meaning “gold and silver,” and the state seal with its representation of mining tools clearly proclaim...Montana’s mining origins. Montana’s production of copper, coal, gold, lead, manganese, phosphate, silver, talc...published describing the occurrence, collecting, mining, and cutting of the two state gemstones. Figure |
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| 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: |
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| BULLETIN 539 SOME ORE DEPOSITS IN NORTHWESTERN OUSTER COUNTY, IDAHO BY JOSEPH B. UMPLEBY WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT................................................. Summit areas.......................................................................................... Silver-copper deposits........................................................................... Lead-silver deposits.................................................................................. Gold-silver veins......................................... |
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| 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; |
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| on sulfide and nonsulfide mineralogy, gold and silver grades and deposit tonnage. A discussion of ore... local geographical area, mineralogy, gold and silver grades, tonnage, and references are given in table...deposit. Table 4, part B, gives an alphabetic list of mine and properties followed by the deposit name. CHARACTERISTICS... These deposits are primarily worked for gold. Silver is a minor byproduct; about 14 percent of the deposits...deposits described here have reported silver grades. Sulfides commonly make up less than 5 percent of |
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| Resources of the Elkhorn Wilderness Study Area, Montana A cooperative study by the U.S. Geological Survey...Pyritiferous veins Silver-lead-zinc replacement deposit':?.. Elkhorn-Tizer Basin zone Elkhorn district -»_»_.,H"1...and zinc in brecciated Lowland Creek Volcanics Silver, lead, and zinc in rhyolite Placer gold deposits...Ridge prospect Breccia pipe deposits Skyline Mine Blackjack Mine Chicago and Last Hope Mines Group I - Precious-...geology Important occurrences Mining districts (lodes) Beaver Creek district C O O /-\ t£ +L fU -t-L Y-* |
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| designate the papers for advance publication] (A) Some mining districts of eastern Oregon, by James Gilluly,...deposits of the Takilma-Waldo district, Oreg., including the Blue Creek district, by Philip J. Shenon________...ILLUSTRATIONS PLATE 1. Index map showing location of mining districts in eastern Oregon. 8 2. Topographic and...and geologic map of the Mormon Basin mining district, Baker and Malheur Counties, Oreg _ 32 3. Geologic...East Eagle district, Oreg _ 72 4. Topographic and geologic map of Virtue district, Baker County, Oreg__ |
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| 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 |
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| 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 .....:........................................ |
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| and jefferson Counties, Montana U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 1805 MONTANA Mineral Resources of...Study Area, Broadwater and Jefferson Counties, Montana By WILLIAM R. GREENWOOD, STEVE LUDINGTON, WILLIAM...Study Area, Broadwater and Jefferson Counties, Montana. (Studies related to wilderness) (U.S. Geological...no.: I 19.3:1805 1. Mines and mineral resources-Montana-Elkhorn Wilderness. 2. Elkhorn Wilderness (Mont...forest land in the Elkhorn Wilderness Study Area, Montana, that is being considered for wilderness designation |
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| ....................................... 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 |
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| Virginia--503 National Center, Rm. 1C402, 12201 Sunrise Valley Dr. • SALT LAKE CITY, Utah--Federal Bldg., Rm...Deposits in the Virginia City-Alder Gulch District, Montana By DANIEL R. SHAWE and KENNETH L. WI ER U...deposits in the Virginia City-Alder Gulch District, Montana / by Daniel R. Shawe and Kenneth L. Wier.... 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 City—Alder Gulch district, MontanaG G9 Boise Basin district, IdahoG |
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| GEOLOGICAL SURVEY ARGENTA TO BANNACK, BEAVERHEAD COUNTY, MONTANA ROAD LOG AND FIELD TRIP GUIDE for American...American Institute of Professional Geologists Montana Section Summer field meeting, 1988 by Robert C. Pearson...generally obscure. 11.7 Open treeless synclinal valley underlain by Permian Phosphoria Formation and in...synclinal trough by Triassic Dinwoody Formation. The valley is surrounded by timbered ridges held up by Quadrant...highway. 12.6 Badger Pass. Badger Pass is the high point on the highway over Badger Ridge, as it is |
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| YEAR 1687"—DAVID T. DAY, CHIEF OF THE DIVISION OF MINING STATISTICS AND TECHNOLOGY WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT...and consump tion, or better and cheaper means of mining, extraction, and convey ance to market, may in...correspondence has been carried on with geologists, mining engineers, and other local authorities, and various...mmed at Broken Arrow aud Trout creek, in Sc. Clair county. The strata in this field are more faulted und...prong of Canoe creek, in St. Clair county, to Ha\sop creek, in Bibb county, a distance of 60 miles. Down to |
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| ..........................................258 Montana ................................................................548 Table of Maps Page Alabama County Map ...................................................................................4 Alaska County and Stream Map ..................................Co. Mining Districts ............................................................22 Arizona County Map.........................23 Arizona – Cochise Co. Mining Districts .................................... |
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| ................... MINERALS OF THE BlJ'I"I E DISTRICT. By Peter A. S111ith ..... .... A MINERAL TRIP...MINERALS OF THE BUTTE DISTRICT, MONTANA By PETER A. SM 1TH Placer gold was discovered in Butte in -r-----~Ui~...and the first silver vein the next year. In a few years Butte was a prosperous silver mining camp. Copper...1886 the the fire areas is not lost as the water Butte mines have annually yielded more leaches it out...any other single district in water containing copper sulphate is pumpthe world. Butte Hill is locally |
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| company which owned the mine or deposit is given in parentheses after the name of the mine or deposit (e.g.:...(Abella Resources)). No company name is given if the mine or deposit was owned by Anaconda. Any complete reference...Nb205 Ni opt Pb Sn st Ti Ti02 U308 W W03 Zn % silver alumina gold barite beryllium beryllium oxide bismuth...million st with 0.19% Mo. [1] Arizona Banner District, Gila Co. Chillito deposit (Kennecott) reserve...massive-bedded ore both with 31% chabazite. [1] Bunker Hill District, Graham Co. Copper Creek deposit (Exxon/Newmont) |
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| conditions: the Cumberland Plateau, the Appalachian Valley, the Appalachian Mountains, the Piedmont Plain...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 farmjasper. BANKS COUNTY COMMERCE, along Hwy. 59, 5 mi. E of Jackson-Banks Co. lineBeryl...along adjoining Co. linerock crystal. BARROW COUNTY WINDER, along rd. to Jefferson and 1½ mi. inside |
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| BITTERROOT RANGE .LL\_ND CLEARWATER MOUNTAINS IN MONTANA AND IDAHO BY W ALI}EMA-R LINDGREN WASHINGTON...___ ................. _. . . . . . . . Bitterroot Valley . _. ___ .. _. ...... _. _...... _. _.... _.. ___...______ ..... _........ _....•••. -----... Curlew mine. _________ . __..... ___ . ____ . _.. __ . _......_........ _... _. _........... _. Gibbonsville district ________ .. _.... __ ............•.......... _..._............ ____ ...... _.. Elk City district. ____ . _. _.... _..... _...•.• _.......... ____ . . |
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| an overall guide been written on gold and gold mining of publications have no single report or to...belt by Knopf and Logan, and reports on the Grass Valley, Alleghany, and Randsburg districts by Johnston...longer district Hulin, respectively. the principal features of each gold-bearing district are described..."There earth here to be taken up wherein there silver". Gold was mined in is is no port of the ...publications were written on various phases of gold mining. The reports of John Trosk, the first State Geologist |
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| location and means of access to all the metallic mining districts in the State, as well as a large number...________ Silver: Argentiferous galena 1 ____________________________________________ Silver halides,...- - - - - Sulfantimonides and sulfarsenides of silver, chiefly polybasitepearceite------------------..._____________________________ 595 Copper: Chalcopyrite _________________________________________ -...260 50 5 2 317 1 The distribution of gold and silver in auriferous and argentiferous sulfides is difficult |
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| ..........................................221 Montana .................................................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...were well known to prehistoric Indians.) BARBOUR COUNTY BAKER HILL, SE 1 mi. : 1 in a deep ravine, as a...deep red to variegated⎯ocher. BIBB COUNTY GENERAL AREA: c county gravel pits along the Cahaba R.⎯gemmy |
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| ..........................................221 Montana .................................................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...were well known to prehistoric Indians.) BARBOUR COUNTY BAKER HILL, SE 1 mi. : 1 in a deep ravine, as a...deep red to variegated⎯ocher. BIBB COUNTY GENERAL AREA: c county gravel pits along the Cahaba R.⎯gemmy |
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| 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 -- |
