 | | 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: |  | | 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...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 |  | | 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...(center-background), Steward (left-background) and Kelley #2 (rightbackground) mines, Butte, ca. 1965. World |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Isotopes of the Flooded Underground Mine Workings of Butte, Montana CHRISTOPHER H. GAMMONS,1,† DEAN M....Engineering, Montana Tech of The University of Montana, 1300 West Park Street, Butte, Montana 59701 2 Department...Applications, 200 Technology Way, Butte, Montana 59701 Abstract Over a century of mining and smelting of the world-class...world-class porphyry lode ore deposit at Butte, Montana, has resulted in extensive environmental damage...most acidic mining pit lakes, Butte is host to over 16,000 km of flooded underground mine workings. Of |  | | 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 .................................. ·......... |  | | 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 |  | Lund, K., Aleinikoff, J. N., Kunk, M. J., Unruh, D. M., Zeihen, G. D., Hodges, W. C., du Bray, E. A., O'Neill, J. M. (2002) SHRIMP U-Pb and 40Ar/39Ar Age Constraints for Relating Plutonism and Mineralization in the Boulder Batholith Region, Montana. Economic Geology, 97 (2) 241-267 doi:10.2113/gsecongeo.97.2.241 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Mineralization in the Boulder Batholith Region, Montana KAREN LUND,† U.S. Geological Survey, Mail Stop...Denver, CO 80225 GREGORY D. ZEIHEN, Montana Resources, Butte, Montana 59701 WENDY C. HODGES, U.S. Geological...batholith, Montana, hosts a variety of mineral deposit types, including important silver-rich polymetallic...the northern part of the batholith and the giant Butte porphyry copper-molybdenum pre-Main Stage system...deposits and magma for quartz porphyry dikes at Butte have all been considered to be late-stage differentiates |  | | Report (issue) | | Virginia-503 National Center, Rm. 1C402,12201 Sunrise Valley Dr. SALT LAKE CITY, Utah-Federal Bldg., Rm. 8105...in the Bingham District, Utah By EDWIN W. TOOKER Gold in the Butte District, Montana By EDWIN W. TOOKER...TOOKER Gold in the Ely (Robinson) Copper District, White Pine County, Nevada By LAURENCE P.JAMES The Tomboy-Minnie...Tomboy-Minnie Gold Deposits at Copper Canyon, Lander County, Nevada By TED G. THEODORE, STEPHEN S. HOWE, and...in the Bingham District, Utah / by Edwin W. looker Gold in the Butte District, Montana / by Edwin W. looker |  | Field, C.W., Zhang, L., Dilles, J.H., Rye, R.O., Reed, M.H. (2005) Sulfur and oxygen isotopic record in sulfate and sulfide minerals of early, deep, pre-Main Stage porphyry Cu–Mo and late Main Stage base-metal mineral deposits, Butte district, Montana. Chemical Geology, 215 (1) 61-93 doi:10.1016/j.chemgeo.2004.06.049 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Main Stage base-metal mineral deposits, Butte district, Montana C.W. Fielda,*, L. Zhanga, J.H. Dillesa...Geosciences, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331, USA U.S. Geological Survey, MS-963, Denver Federal Center...CO 80225, USA c Department of Geological Sciences, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403, USA Accepted...throughgoing, Main Stage polymetallic veins of Butte. Among the sulfur-bearing minerals recovered from...conventionally bmagmaticQ value of about 1x or 2x for Butte sulfur. However, the high modal mineral ratios of |  | | 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; |  | | Journal (issue) | | Babbitt and Silver Bay > 20 ANACO N DA'S deep shaft program underway at Butte’s Kelley and Steward mines...ARE ENDORSEMENTS... PH is the no.1 choice of the mining industries In recent years shovels 68% of all...P&H has earned such widespread acceptance in the mining industries because of lower per-ton loading cost... 4.5 to 9 yard the world have electric been mining PsH 2. Vastly superior service and parts availability... OF FICE: « Ltd., Montreal MINING WORLD GRAB SAMPLES MINING from the mail ee Congratulations |  | | 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) | | Multiple-Stage PorphyryCopperMineralizationat Butte, Montana: Vein Formationby HypogeneLeaching and Enrichment...mineralizationduring the growth of the large vein systemsat Butte, Montana. Applicationof the principlesof irreversiblethermodynamics...pyrite, an oxide zone consistingof 1 to 2 percent magnetite plus hematite.with a copper grade contributedby...montmorillonitewhich in turn is replacedby kaolinite. Magnetite is partially oxidized to hematite during the early... TR.4NSFER MECH.4NISMS, COPPER MINER.4LIZ.4TION, BUTTE, MONT.4N.4 557 suiting in a net copperaddition |  | | Book (volume) | | 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...Sphalerite. BALDWIN COUNTY MILLEDGEVILLE, at state farmjasper. BANKS COUNTY COMMERCE, along Hwy. 59...along adjoining Co. linerock 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 floatjasper. CARTERSVILLE: |  | | Report (volume) | | Thorium Deposits in East-Central Idaho Southwestern Montana GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 988-H Uranium...Thorium Deposits in East-Central Idaho Southwestern Montana By ALBERT F. TRITES, JR., and EDWIN W. TOOKER ...______ Mine descriptions.._________________________________________ North Fork-Shoup district, Idaho___-__...claim_________________________________________ Blackbird district, Idaho_._______________________________ Calera..._____-_ Forney district, Idaho________________________________________ Singiser mine._______________ |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | AND SULPHIDE CHALCOCITE BUTTE, AusT• ENRICHMENT FORMATION • AT MONTANA. F. Ro•E•s. Though first...27-I??. ?EcoN. G•OL.,.Vol. 5, PP. 205-220, 191o. 8 Mining and Scientific Press, Vol. Io6, pp. 38, 14L I78...a recentstudy of a disseminatedcopperore from a mine in PlumasCounty,California,the nameand locationof...Fie. 67. (X25 times.) Norite-diorite from Plumas County, California. O --- Ore minerals; hy • hypersthene;...restricted sense. CHALCOCITE FORMATION AT BUTTE, MONTANA. 783 agentswhichhavedeposited their metalliccontentsby |  | | Book (volume) | | ..........................................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 .................................... |  | | 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 (issue) | | Elmer N . Anderson ..........22 Minerals of t he District of Columbia and Vicinity, with Pertinent Bibliography.................................... 31 W yarning Valley Historical and Geological Society .......... 31...time of a cruise sailing to this remote coal mining district, the idea came to me that if coal was there...that when new at this business of collecti ng, the mine dumps in Penn• sylvania's anthracite region "·ere...the Norsen1en in 1>ossession. The di~o,·ery and mining of coal brought the matter of ownership to a head |  | | Book | | volume is dedicated is four-fold: (1) To locate by mine, deposit, or community those mineralized areas of...Co. Hematite CALERA, Shelby Co. Wavkllite CLAY COUNTY, Sec. 24. T. 19 S R., 7 E. STATUARY, Coosa Co...of* Marble Crystalline TALLADEGA COUNTY Marble, (crystalline) VALLEY HEAD, DeKalb Co. Hematite VILLAGE...VILLAGE SPRINGS, Blount Co. Hematite WOODS COPPER MINE, Cloaburne Co. Sphalerite ARIZONA COVEI.I.ITE I I...PAYNE, DeKalb Co. Hematite FREDONIA, Chambers Co. Magnetite GADSEN, Etowah Co. Hematite GAYESVILLE, Cherokee |  | | Book | | 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... CONTENTS Preface ix PART I 1 Introduction to Mining and Mineralogy 2 Preparation for Mineral Collecting |  | | Book (volume) | | ..........................................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 |  | | Book (volume) | | ..........................................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 |  | | Catalog/List | | \1111tl111•nt Snl'11tifir C,m,pan";' of Hamilton, Montana) 2 Lot 10-t" lxl" lx2" 2x2'' 2x3'' 3x4"...Copper aluminum silic:ue Ar120na Pima County. Ajo. l\ew Cornelia mine Skyblue mkro crysuls and coatings on...CLEAV[ LA!·nrrE Colorado Gunnis >n Cl1., Brown Derby mine • lamcllar mass. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...cerium aluminum sllicalc Cali!ornia Los Angeles County, Pacoima Canyon Lir(:e black tabular crystals in...ALTAITE Lead tellurlde New Mexico Oona Ana County, Hilltop mine Rlch øllvery cleu•ages and \'eins in matrix |
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