 | | 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...like bornite, chalcocite, colusite, covellite, digenite, djurleite, and enargite rank among the finest in...in the world. The best of Butte pyrite compares with the best anywhere. Handsome specimens of barite,... quartz, rhodochrosite, silver, and numerous other species have been found, many of them in extraordinary |  | | Journal (issue) | | BUTTE, MONTANA Butte, Montana Minerals, Mines and History The Mineralogical Record Volume 33 • Number...Front cover: COVELLITE crystal cluster, 3 cm across, From the Leonard mine, Butte, Montana. Frederick H...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) | | 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 |  | | 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 (issue) | | ................... 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 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | SALES OF GEOLOGISTS AT BUTTE, AND NO. 6 1949 STUDIES OF VEIN MONTANA. • CHARLES MEYER. CONTENTS.................................. Vein Growth at Butte ..................................................the New York meetingof the AmericanInstituteof Mining and MetallurgicalEngineersin February1948the writerspresented...knownstructuralsequence andhistoryof the fracture complexat Butte, it was concluded:(1) that throughoutthe period...interpretations regardingthe processes by whichthe Butte ore depositsattainedtheir currentlyobservedcharacter |  | | 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) | | distomglanz, binnite (described by Des Cloizeaux as silver-rich), kupferblende (zinc-rich), miedziankite (zinc-rich)... acanthite, sternbergite, enargite, bornite, covellite, calcite, dolomite, siderite, barite, fluorite...tennantite crystals from the Champion lode, Clear Creek County, Colorado. Dave Bunk specimen, Jeff Scovil photo...tennantite crystals with quartz from the El Cobre mine, Concepción del Oro, Zacatecas, Mexico. Cal and...tennantite specimen from the Longfellow mine, Red Mountain Pass, Ouray County, Colorado. Dave Bunk specimen, Jeff |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | CopperContentof Biotitesfrom the Boulder Batholith, Montana Am)m, R^z^•c K. Ar,-H^sm• ^•D ARTHUR H. BROWNLOW...coppercontentsin biotite are observedfor samplesfrom the Butte Quartz Monzonite, the largest single pluton of the...depositsat Butte and many other major ore depositsof the region. Plutons older or younger than the Butte Quartz...sulfide inclusions) in their biotites. Within the Butte unit itself, higher valuesof copperin biotite tend...parallelsthe long dimensionof the mass and containsthe Butte district in the south and the Wickes and Clancy districts |  | | 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 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | superimposed on porphyry copper deposits (e.g., Butte, Morococha), whereas others have no known link to... Cordilleran deposits have also been termed as Butte-type vein deposits (Meyer et al., 1968), polymetallic...known Cordilleran base metal deposit, after Butte (Montana), is Cerro de Pasco, in central Peru. It is...information on Cerro de Pasco. While it is probable that silver was mined at Cerro de Pasco prior to the Spanish...the first historic record of production from the district is in 1630 (Bowditch, 1935, and references therein) |  | | 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... TR.4NSFER MECH.4NISMS, COPPER MINER.4LIZ.4TION, BUTTE, MONT.4N.4 557 suiting in a net copperaddition...reached,and ultimately high-grade chalcocite, covellite,enargite assemblages formed during the most i...base metals and sulfur, of high-grade Main Stage Butte veins originated as disseminatedsulfidesin the early |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | PorphyryCopperPotassium-Silicate Protoreat Butte, Montana' A TheoreticalEvaluation of the CopperRemobilization...copper-zinc vein systems at Butte, circulation within the vein systems is probably Montana, are probably the result...deposited complex in the central part of the Butte district in a porphyry copper potassium-silicate protore...protore (Modoc dike system near the Leonard mine, (Brimhall, 1978, 1979). Analysis of the whole-rock Fig...problematicalnecessityof a in most of the western third of the district by late-stage magmatic metal sourcefor at least |  | | 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 |  | Lund, Karen, McAleer, Ryan J., Aleinikoff, John N., Cosca, Michael A., Kunk, Michael J. (2018) Two-event lode-ore deposition at Butte, USA: 40Ar/39Ar and U-Pb documentation of Ag-Au-polymetallic lodes overprinted by younger stockwork Cu-Mo ores and penecontemporaneous Cu lodes. Ore Geology Reviews, 102. 666-700 doi:10.1016/j.oregeorev.2018.05.018 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Accepted Manuscript Two-event lode-ore deposition at Butte, USA: 40Ar/39Ar and U-Pb documentation of Ag-Au-polymetallic... M.J. Kunk, Two-event lode-ore deposition at Butte, USA: 40Ar/39Ar and U-Pb documentation of Ag-Au-polymetallic...journal pertain. Two-event lode-ore deposition at Butte, USA: 40Ar/39Ar and U-Pb documentation of Ag-Au-polymetallic...U.S. Geological Survey, MS 926-A, 12201 Sunrise Valley Drive, Reston, VA 20192 rmcaleer@usgs.gov c U.S...for world-class deposits of the Butte mining district, Montana, USA, is deep pre-Main Stage porphyry |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | typicaloutwardzonationof Cu-Zn-Pbobservedin porphyrycoppers,Butte-typebasemetal veindeposits, skarns,andmassive sulfides...Implications to mineralization patternsin Mississippi Valley-type,sedimentaryCu, and other low-temperaturedepositsare...oflatemagmatic-hydrothermal For Main Stage vein mineralization at Butte, later evolution.Anotherfactoraffectingmineralabundance...molalrather ulatesthat seenin the Cordilleranor Butte-typeorethanpartsper millionscale,but mutualrelationships...outerexpression of the earlyprotore As typified by Butte Main Stageveins, lead and mineralization,or if so |  | | Journal (issue) | | 2021 Articles The Dragon's Lair gold, Beta Hunt mine, Western Australia ...............................specimen), 49.5 cm (over 49 kg), from the Beta Hunt mine, Western Australia. 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Massive Zn-Cu-Pb deposits in the Røros ore district, Norway: setting and formation ................Matos The Jörn granitoid complex, Skellefte mining district, Sweden: petrography, lithogeochemistry and |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Water in the Boulder Batholith and the Butte Ore Deposits,Montana* SIMONM. F. SI•EPP^m) Arm HUCH P. TAYLOR...variationsare probably primaryfeaturesof the magmas. At Butte, theisotopic dataforhydrous alteration minerals...hydrogenisotopecompositionof Main Stagealterationmineralsat Butte is very low and extremelyuniform (SD------140__+...oxygenisotopestudiesof argillic alterationin the Butte ore deposits(Sheppard et al., 1969) havetentativelyindicatedthat...magmaticwater (SD = -40 to -80). Thus the early Tertiary Butte ore deposits,and the Late CretaceousBoulder batholith |  | | 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...Proprietary Mine, He Treatment at G. D. Del prat Brown, Walter 8 A Filing System for Mining Engineers llucke |  | | Book (volume) | | Where & How to Djg, Pan and Mine Your Own Gen1s & Minerals Where & I-low to 1-Iunt for Treasure From...vacation stops at a roadside "dig your own" gem mine. Junior finds a sapphire the size of a p ach and...) Many an unsuspecting tourist has stopped at a mine to try his or her luck and become a rockhound for...Oklahoma Texas Utah Alaska Idaho Iowa Minnesota Montana Nebraska North Dakota Oregon SouthDakota Washington...VOLUME4: Northeast States Co1mecticut Delawar District of Columbia IUinois Indiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts |  | | Journal (issue) | | ber-D ecem ber 1977 ISSUE! TourmalineGolconda mine, Minas Gerais, Brazil SHOWS Sul/urPerticara, Romagna...U E S t AVETltlB 0)A C L PyromorphiteWheatley mine, Hours: Wed-Sat. 10-5 Sunday 12-5 [evenings by...E id a h l M in e ra lo g y o f th e Cham pion Mine, W h ite M o u n ta in s , C a lifo r n ia .......T h e N atural History M useum of Los A ngeles County 487 b y P e te r C K e lle r a n d A n th o n y...mineralogist of California. He headed the state mining bureau from 1880 to 1886 and his contributions |  | | Book | | long (Marty, 2004 ). AFRICA widely in Litchfield County, where good crystals were taken from quartz veins...region (Brunet, I 977b ). NEW YORK Amity, Orange County. At many isolated collected sites between the towns...Mount Malosa, Chilwa alkaline province, Zomba district. "Illite" is the name of a series of incompletely...Litchfield County. Ilmenite masses and crystals from somewhere near Washington, Litchfield County, were described...Lake Road occurrence, Faraday Township, Hastings County. In fall 1994, Dan and Shelley Lambert extracted |
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