 | | 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) | | 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 specimens...specimens of barite, quartz, rhodochrosite, silver, and numerous other species have been found, many of...Kelley #2 (rightbackground) mines, Butte, ca. 1965. World Museum of Mining photo. 6 The Mineralogical Record |  | | 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) | | ISOTOPES V. RAMA IN ORES AND ROCKS OF BUTTE, MURTHY AND CLAIRE MONTANA PATTERSON ABSTRACT The isotopic...isotopic compositionsof leads in ores and rocks of Butte, Montana, suggest that the ore metals were neither late...someigneousminerals,sedimentary rocks,and sulfideores of Butte, Montana, have been determinedas a means of investigating...suggestions as to what may have occurredin this district. This is thefirstreportedindication by isotopic...the Butte districthavemodel agesolderthan the emplacement ageand exhibitsmallvariations. The Butte leadsfall |  | | 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) | | distomglanz, binnite (described by Des Cloizeaux as silver-rich), kupferblende (zinc-rich), miedziankite (zinc-rich)...associated minerals include, to name but a few, pyrite, chalcopyrite, galena, acanthite, sternbergite...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 (issue) | | ................... MINERALS OF THE BlJ'I"I E DISTRICT. By Peter A. S111ith ..... .... A MINERAL TRIP...biotite schist. Some of it carried muscovite, and pyrite was a common accessory. The formation has been...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 |  | | 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 |  | | 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) | | mineralization stages. The first stage consists of a large pyrite-quartz body replacing Lower Mesozoic Pucará carbonate...extent, diatreme breccia. This body is composed of pyrite with pyrrhotite inclusions, quartz, and black and...with the pyrite-quartz body, the diatreme breccia is altered to pyrite-quartz-sericite-pyrite. This body...zoned east-west–trending Cu-Ag-(Au-Zn-Pb) enargite-pyrite veins hosted in the diatreme breccia in the western...The zoned enargite-pyrite veins display mineral zoning, from a core of enargite-pyrite ± alunite with traces |  | | 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 (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. Photo by Robert Mosely (The...$324/ three years, (Canada) $196/ one year, (outside USA other than Canada) $275 for one year Subscription...Forrest was born April 21, 1932 in Willits, Mendocino County, California, the son of Helen and Forrest E. Cureton...full-time volunteer at the Empire Mine State Historic Park in Grass Valley, California (as purchasing agent |  | 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 |  | | Report (volume) | | values from the ores of copper, zinc, lead, gold, silver, graphite, molybdenum, mercury, etcetera. 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Applicationof the principlesof irreversiblethermodynamics...pyritic zone with approximatdy 5 weight percent pyrite, an oxide zone consistingof 1 to 2 percent magnetite... TR.4NSFER MECH.4NISMS, COPPER MINER.4LIZ.4TION, BUTTE, MONT.4N.4 557 suiting in a net copperaddition...constant ac,,+/aI• +. First, saturation with respectto pyrite and bornite was reached,and ultimately high-grade |  | | Book (volume) | | ae TONITE TN263. Au. =American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, V.2 and Petroleum Engineers Ore...Inst! itute i an Americ ie Lye 2 of llurgical, Mining, Meta m Engineers and Petroleu © f the Ore deposiits...(1933) AIME TRANSACTIONS VOLUME AIME TRANSACTIONS MINE PLANT VOLUME 112, MILLING METHODS (1933) (1934)...AND ZINC (1936) 134, MILLING METHODs 141, METAL MINING (1939) (1937-40) BLAST FURNACE, COKE OVEN AND...AIME TRANSACTIONS VOLUME 178, MINING GEOLOGY AIME TRANSACTIONS 181, MINING, INDUSTRIAL MINERALS, EDUCATION |  | | 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...spanmight extendfrom late magmatic to the beginningof pyrite-sericitealteration.Because we yet lack a workabletheoreticalor...earlyassemblages of the porphyries, in netite to pyrrhotiteto pyrite at successively contrast to theveryhighratioimpliedby...andpyriteistheabundant lowertemperature mineral. controlledby the pyrite-pyrrhotite-magnetite-chalThe rarity of pyrrhotitepresumably |  | | 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 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | PorphyryCopperPotassium-Silicate Protoreat Butte, Montana' A TheoreticalEvaluation of the CopperRemobilization...peroxidation in which the only stable minerals are quartz, pyrite, and muscovitefollowing the completedestructionof...includinga strongly leachedand sericitizedquartz-pyrite protore relict. Near-surfacevein mineralizationmay...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 |  | | Journal (issue) | | faceting & lapidary needs! Lapidary Equipment• Silver & Gold Filled Wire & Sheet• Jewelry Making Equipment•...West Federation Show July 18 through 21 Jefferson County Fairgrounds Port Towsend WA Dealer Inquiries Welcome...Steve Voynick 34 A Hotbed of Mining Copper was king in Butte, Montana; by Roger McPherson Field Trip:...rockgemmag@aol.com Cabs, Cabs and More Cabs Gem Center USA Inc. has one of the world's largest selection of...stone, in any shape and in any size. Gem Center USA is also one of the leading distributors of quality |
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