 | | 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 |  | | Report (volume) | | it helpful to refer to Survey Bulletin 507, "The mining districts of the western United States," and to...exhausted by mining or quarrying. Deposits of minerals of wide distribution, such as quartz and calcite...especial interest or value. Some minerals, such as the copper ores of Pennsylvania, are included in the list...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 |  | | 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...exhausted by mining or quarrying. Deposits of minerals that are widely distributed, such as quartz and calcite...especial interest or value. Some minerals, such as the copper ores of Pennsylvania, are included in the list |  | | Book (edition) | | 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 |  | | 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...“The Story of Montana: The Treasure of Butte Hill and Development of the Great Copper Industry” by C...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) | | Butte, Montana Minerals, Mines, and History Robert E. Jenkins 6 Columbus Circle Newark, Delaware 19702...mineral species have been recorded from Butte. Specimens of copper sulfides and sulfosalts like bornite,...The best of Butte pyrite compares with the best anywhere. Handsome specimens of barite, quartz, rhodochrosite...rhodochrosite, silver, and numerous other species have been found, many of them in extraordinary numbers. The...Kelley #2 (rightbackground) mines, Butte, ca. 1965. World Museum of Mining photo. 6 The Mineralogical Record |  | | Report (volume) | | the ruby, sapphire, spinel, emerald, rutile, and quartz of gem quality have been synthesized. The best...transparent stones. The desired hues are blue, rose, green, and true canary yellow in the diamond; pigeon-blood...ruby; cornflower blue in the sapphire; and grass green in the emerald. Most diamonds, however, are colorless...colors. Impurities, such as iron, chromium, and copper, also tint the minerals. Care should be taken in...Fluorite Apatite . 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Orthoclase Quartz Topaz Corundum Diamond The numbers preceding each |  | | Report (volume) | | Director Bulletin 842 OF THE GREATER HELENA MINING REGION MONTANA BY J. T. PARDEE and F. C. SCHRADER UNITED...___-_____________-_-_--___-_-__---_-_.--_____ Granite (quartz monzonite)____.__-_______--__-_-______ Rhyolite...Ophir district.________________________________________________ Scratchgravel Hills and Grass Valley......__________---__--_-___ Austin district._.____..._..._._.____._____.____.___-.___._____ Marysville district.___________...___________________________________________ Gould district._______________________________________________ Stemple |  | | Report (issue) | | MANGANESE ORE IN MONTANA, UTAH, OREGON, AND WASHINGTON. By J. T. PARDEE. DEPOSITS IN MONTANA. HISTORY AND...production of manganese ore in Montana. Although since 1870 the Butte and Philipsburg districts had produced...produced large quantities of the ores of copper, silver, and other metals, the fact that large bodies...In 191Y the production in that district so greatly increased that Montana jumped far ahead of the other...manganese oxide ore was mined from the lodes at Butte, and rather unsuccessful attempts were made to concentrate |  | | Report (issue) | | courtesy of the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, Los Angeles, California. INTRODUCTION Welcome...the author’s 1981 discovery of an entire gold district west of Casper in the Ra�lesnake Hills area (Hausel...discovery, some major mining companies and private consultants explored the district and located several...(WSGS) during mapping projects in the historic mining districts at South Pass (Hausel, 1991), Seminoe...1994), Sierra Madre (Hausel, 1986), and Medicine Bow Mountains (Hausel, 1989; 1993) (Figure 2). In addition |  | | 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) | | SMITH, Director ' Bulletin 648 NOTES ON SOME MINING DISTRICTS IN EASTERN NEVADA BY JAMES M. HILL................................................. Quartz monzonite........................................Clark County.......................................................'.. Gold Butte mining district.................... Lincoln mine........................................ Bennett mine.........................and gneiss............................. Gold Butte Mining Co................................. New Era |  | | 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...prospect____________________.__________________ Copper Queen prospect_________________________________ |  | | Catalog/List | | ~rly pure dark brown cubic cleavable mass with green streak .................... . ALBITE Sodium aluminum...Fairfield County, Branchville White xlline with cymatolite, good study ... New Mexico Taos County, near Dixon...lamellar mass . MOONSTONE India ----rransparent green cleavages of gem quality with beautiful opalescence...cerium aluminum silicate California Los Angeles County, Pacoima Canyon Large black tabular crystals in...silicate ACTINOLITE California San Bernardino County, Wrightwood Green prismatic crystalline mass ........ . |  | | Report (issue) | | organization is carrying on for the direct advancement of mining interests throughout the country than can readily...Pisgah........ ...... N.C.-S.C..... 148 Joplin district...... Mo.-Kans .... 476 149 Penobscot Bay ...corundum, soapstone, talc,kaolin,gold,graphite, copper, building stone, lime, clay. Smith, W. S. T.; Sie-... limestone, building E.S.; Brown, C. W. stone, copper, clay. Barton, N.H.; O'Har- Coal, building stone...I. C.; Leverett, F. earth, underground water. Silver, gold, building stone, lime. Lime, clay, coal, |  | | Book | | Montana Hodges Robert Feldman Shaded relief indicates terrain and slope. Second Edition Rockhounding...longitude numbers and grid ticks are GPS compatible. Montana Enhanced detail shows more symbols, labels, and...history Cover photos of Montana agate (front) and ammonite imprint (back) © Montana Hodges Cover design by...imprint of The Globe Pequot Press MONTANA Search for stunning Montana agate along the Yellowstone River...Bar Sapphire Mine. Help paleontologists excavate dinosaurs in Malta. Rockhounding Montana points the way |  | | Book (edition) | | FERRY, Govern(lr, and the members of the State Mining Bureau of Washington: GENTLEMEN_.: I have the...approved by him, with the cooperation of the state mining bureau, I , as state geologist, completed the neces11ary...GEOL OGIS T OF TL4SHINGTON. tenance of a state mining bureau are at once at an end, and may in no way...laboring · under a stigma attached to both the mining bureau and this office by reuon of events of a...This condition ·is certainly apparent alqng the summit of the Cascade range of mountains, being most plainly |  | | Report (issue) | | this publication possible. ELEMENTS Gold Silver Copper Lead Mercury Tellurium Sulfur Diamond Graphite...distributed in small quantities. Most abundant in quartz veins or in placer deposits from weathering of...state. Much of the present gold production is from copper sulfide ores. It is impracticable to list the numerous...deposits Cochise County-Warren (Bisbee) and Turquoise districts, with ores of copper, silver, and lead. Tombstone...Tombstone district, with lead-silver ores. Pearce district, with silver ores. Dragoon Mountains, Manzoro |  | | Report (issue) | | recovered by Dean Farris from mine dump waste in the Gold Hill district. The actual diameter of the button... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Kirwin district . . . . . . , . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....City) district .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 16 Stinkingwater district . . ...Sunlight district . ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 18 22 Mine and... . . . . . . .. 39 39 40 40 40 41 41 Reported mine and prospect descriptions . . . . .. . . . . . |  | | Book (edition) | | McDonald Co\·er photo: \\ 7 ulfenite, Rowley Mine, Maricopa County, 4 cm high specimen, Evan and Melissa Jones...used mining districts as part of the locality description. These political and geographic district names...with a more descriptive term, metallic mineral district. This term shows the geochemical and mineralogical...reader to learn more about the geology of the district and to possibly predict the minerals that could...districts. Where possible, the metallic mineral district for each mineral locality is given for the mineral |  | | Report (issue) | | and Butler, G. M.-Arizona lode gold mines and mining: Univ. Ariz., Ariz. Bur. Mines Bull. 137, 1934...Ariz., Ariz. Bur. Mines Bull. 148, 1941. Apache County 2: 17 Gregory, H. E.-Geology Prof. Paper 93, 1917...the Navajo country. U.S. Geol. Survey Cochise County 3:04 Ransome, F. L.-The geology and ore deposits...Tombstone district, Arizona: Univ. Ariz., Ariz. Bur. Mines Bull. 143, 1938. Gila County 4:03 Ransome...Ransome, F. L.-Geology of the Globe copper district, Arizona: U.S. Geol. Survey Prof. Paper 12, 1903. 4:19 |  | | Report (volume) | | BULLETIN 539 SOME ORE DEPOSITS IN NORTHWESTERN OUSTER COUNTY, IDAHO BY JOSEPH B. UMPLEBY WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT................................................. Summit areas...................................................... 21 Quartz monzonite............................................. 22 Quartz diorite.................................................... Silver-copper deposits............................................................................... Lead-silver deposits...................................... |  | | Report (issue) | | RESOURCES OF KERN COUNTY CALIFORNIA CALIFORNIA DIVISION OF MINES AND GEOLOGY COUNTY REPORT 1 i y 1966... Front cover: The exceedingly varied terrain of Kern County is shown by the brown section— from McKittrick...the far west (left side), through the San Joaquin Valley in the vicinity of Bakersfield, to the majestic...Sierra Nevada and Owens Peak (highest point in the county); on the east (right side) is the sharp descent...MINERAL RESOURCES OF KERN COUNTY, CALIFORNIA By BENNIE W. TROXEL, mining geologist California Division |  | | Report (volume) | | precipitation of the metalo........ Composition of mine waters............................................of sulphide enrichment Continued. Composition of mine waters Continued. Discussion of analyses Continued................................................. Copper....................................................................................... Gold and silver............................................ Changes...on depth..................... Precipitates from mine waters under superficial conditions....... Oxidation |  | | Catalog/List | | ...................... . . . . . . 77 78 Mining and Mining Engineering ............. 78 Paleontology...COVER PHOTOGRAPH: _ VANADINITE Apache mine, near Globe, Gila County, Arizona. Sharp hexagonal barrel-shaped...arsenate of zinc. Mexico Durango, Mapimi, mina Ojuela. Green-gray to red-brown crystalled on limonite, rich ...... . Fl. Utah Toelle Co., Gold Hill, Gold Hill mine. .50 2.50 Transparent xls on limonite with austinite...fluo rescence under ultraviolet light. The Ojuela mine is one of Mexico's largest producers of beautiful |
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