 | | 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...Kelley #2 (rightbackground) mines, Butte, ca. 1965. World Museum of Mining photo. 6 The Mineralogical Record |  | | Book | | Western townships in general. Butte, Montana, in 1885, was a mining camp with a floating population...lawless days of Butte in 1865 and 1866; it deals extensively with mining magnates and mining activities and...and offers interesting sidelights on numerous Butte enterprises of a general nature. Particularly valuable...downtown and residential areas, from the days when Butte had only a scattered few wooden huts, in 1875, to...over any line.”’ MONTANA JACKET PHOTOGRAPHS COURTESY HISTORICAL SOCIETY, HELENA, MONTANA Digitized by |  | | 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: |  | | Book | | i0000malo_g608 The Battle for Butte The Battle for Butte MINING AND PoLitics ON THE NORTHERN FRONTIER...Malone Montana Historical Society Press Helena Cover photograph: Anaconda Hill, Butte, Montana, circa...circa 1900 (Montana Historical Society Photograph Archives) Cover design: Finstad Visual Design, Helena,... Montana Printed by Thomson-Shore, Inc., Dexter, Michigan Montana Historical Society Press 225 N. Roberts...Roberts St. P. O. Box 201201 Helena, Montana 59620-1201 © 1981 by the University of Washington Press | | | Book | | of Western townships in general. Butte, Montana, in 1885, was a mining camp with a floating population...lawless days of Butte in 1865 and 1866; it deals extensively with mining magnates and mining activities and...and offers interesting sidelights on numerous Butte enterprises of a general nature. Particularly valuable...downtown and residential areas, from the days when Butte had only a scattered few wooden huts, in 1875, to...JACKET PHOTOGRAPHS COURTESY MONTANA HISTORICAL SOCIETY, HELENA, MONTANA Digitized by the Internet |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Montana Mineral Locality Index Downloaded by [University of Nebraska, Lincoln] at 20:00 09 April 2015...STATE, Montana is rich in mineral and gemstone localities. The state motto, Ora y Plata meaning “gold and...and silver,” and the state seal with its representation of mining tools clearly proclaim Montana’s mining...Montana’s production of copper, coal, gold, lead, manganese, phosphate, silver, talc, vermiculite, and zinc is...published describing the occurrence, collecting, mining, and cutting of the two state gemstones. Figure |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Franklin County; at Coventry and Irasburgh, Orleans County; and at Cavendish, Windsor County, Vermont... at Keene, and southeast of Hinsdale, Cheshire County, and elsewhere in New Hampshire and is reported...from Haddam, Middletown, and Portland, Middlesex County, Connecticut. In Rhode Island, rhodonite has been...in manganese prospects at Cumberland, Providence County. Downloaded by [Universite Laval] at 20:02 10...unusual rhodonite on galena specimen from the North mine, Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia; field |  | | Report (volume) | | 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 .....:........................................ |  | | 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 (issue) | | data on sulfide and nonsulfide mineralogy, gold and silver grades and deposit tonnage. A discussion of...country, local geographical area, mineralogy, gold and silver grades, tonnage, and references are given in...deposit. Table 4, part B, gives an alphabetic list of mine and properties followed by the deposit name. CHARACTERISTICS...1980)). These deposits are primarily worked for gold. Silver is a minor byproduct; about 14 percent of the...the deposits described here have reported silver grades. Sulfides commonly make up less than 5 percent |  | | Book | | mithers, Photographer, Butte Butte, Montana, in r 8 72, after its significant gold placers had been exhausted...and it had not yet attained its first riches of silver or suspected its greater riches of copper The... The War of the Copper Kings BUILDERS OF BUTTE AND WOLVES OF WALL STREET by C. B. GLASSCOCK , Ignorance...perhaps, should be named the Historical Society of Montana at Helena, Mr. David Hilger, librarian, and his...They opened to research the files of scores of Montana newspapers of the decade from 1895 to 1905 which |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | noted Figure 1. Camp Bird mine, level 2, Sneffels district, Ouray County. Raines-Pettem collection,...from the Leadville district, with another 50 million pounds mined in San Juan County (Henderson 1926).... During the twentieth century, the Gilman district surpassed Leadville in total copper production with...million pounds (Del Rio 1960). By comparison, Butte, Montana, produced more than 266 million pounds of copper...in 1925 alone (Gerry 1928). Butte mined copper; Colorado mined gold, silver, lead, and zinc. Nearly all |  | | Book | | of this book. Mining Cultures Mining; Cultures Men, Women, and Leisure in Butte, 1914—41 Mary Murphy...and Drinking Daughters: Gender and Prohibition in Butte, Mon¬ tana” in American Quarterly 46 (June 1994):...“Messenger of the New Age: Station KGIR in Butte” in Montana Magazine of Western History 39 (Autumn 1989):...ation Data Murphy, Mary. Mining cultures : men, women, and leisure in Butte, 1914-41 / Mary Murphy. p... 1. Butte (Mont.)—History. 2. Butte (Mont.)—Social life and customs. 3. Copper mines and mining—Montana—Butte— |  | | 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) | | Show Figure I (above). Pyrite, Alice Glory Hole, Clear Creek County. Cluster of intergrown crystals...Figure 2 (right). Pyrite, Mountain Spring mine, Rico, Dolores County. Cluster of modified cubes; specimen...C*O*L*O*R*A*D*O PYRITE BARBARA L. MUNTYAN Ouray County Museum Ouray, Colorado 81427 Mineral photographs...States, fine pyrite specimens have been found at Butte, Montana; Park City, Utah; Washington State; and numerous...in significant amounts in virtually all of the mining districts of the Colorado mineral belt. (The Colorado |  | | Book (volume) | | conditions: the Cumberland Plateau, the Appalachian Valley, the Appalachian Mountains, the Piedmont Plain...first real Gold Rush in America occurred in Georgia following two simultaneous discoveries of Gold by Negro...Dahlonega in Lumpkin Co. Not only was placer and lode gold found in abundance here and elsewhere, but the early...found and are still being occasionally washed out of gold pans. Many other gem crystal species occur in pegmatite...been actively prospected for gold since colonial times, and the modern gold panner should concentrate his |  | | 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...Feldspar HISSOP, Coosa Co., (near) Beryl JACKSON COUNTY Hematite KENNEDYS, Clay Co., (near) Magnetite MILLERVILLE |  | | Report (issue) | | - Wyoming gold. Gold buttons in the prospector's pan were recovered by Dean Farris from mine dump waste...waste in the Gold Hill district. The actual diameter of the button in the lower left is approximately '...',4 inch. (Gold photographed by Alan J. VerPloeg; drawing by Phyllis A. Ranz.) THE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Kirwin district . . . . . . , . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....City) district .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 16 Stinkingwater district . . |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Figure 1. Gold nugget, 7.67 troy ounces, Fairbanks mining region, Alaska, USA. Donated in 1977 by Arthur...Cook photo. The Occurrence and Characteristics of GOLD NUGGETS AND MASSES ROBERT B. COOK Department of...com HE COMMON IMAGE OF A GOLD NUGGET is that of a rounded piece of gold just plucked from a pan or...consistent with even the most generic definitions of gold nugget found in most general reference works and...naturally occurring gold.” As any collector knows, that could be just about any gold specimen with little |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Montana, Treasure State for the Crystal Mineral Collector By GERALD J. NAVRATIL Bex 70, RFD 7, Middleburg...crystal mineral localities within the state of Montana. Quite accurately the state has been officially...mineralminded public. The well-publicized Butte copper district has been ignored since the writer feels...known. Amcnnpijiite: In the Emery Mining district (Powell County) the mineral is found in wellformed...Crevasse Mountain Mining district near Jardine (Park County). At the Kennebec mine in the Crevasse Mountain |  | | Report (issue) | | Colorado Geological Survey Information Series 33 GOLD PANNING AND PLACERING 622.342 P238 IN COLORADO...in Colorado race a as Information Series 33 Gold Panning and Placering Colorado Geological Survey...Powered Washers 10 Portable Dredges 10 Placer Mining Methods Used in Colorado 11 Ground Sluicing 11...12 at 5 | | & rf Beacon Hill Mine 4a , Cripple Creek District Shoveling-In and Related Mechanical...Methods 12 Portable Washing Plants 12 Hydraulic Mining 13 Elevator Plants 14 Dredging 14 Bucket Line Dredges |  | | Report (issue) | | tungsten, mercury, nickel in small intrusions, vein gold, mafic volcanogenic sulfide, felsic and intermediate... Because of the expense involved in drilling, mining concerns commonly drill enough holes to prove or...or disprove the economic viability of the mining the deposit. This process can lead to a tonnage, and...be reported because they may not be economic to mine at the time they are explored. Balancing these...often more complete because mining concerns attempt to develop long-range mine plans now. It is also more |  | | Book | | DEPOSIT. ^ jflnzona mining Directory A DIRECTORY OF Arizona^s Mines^ Mining Districts Owners or...or Operators AND POSTOFFICE ADDRESSES (Yavapai County) Copyright RUSSELL H. J 903 MILLWARD PRESCOTT...PRESCOTT, ARIZONA Published by The Arizona Mining Directory Prescott, Arizona Price $2.50 '-^ '...#;^ XXc. No. a. PREFACE Yavapai, the treasure county of Arizona, has developed beyond the speculative...operators than to this county a greater is October 298 1, were 1876, of mining locations Hinton, the |  | | 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 |  | | Book | | ingcoOO00ross MOUNTAIN M COLORADO'S HISTORIC MINING DISTRICTS ¢ LAURA ROSSETTER ys FULCRUM PUBLISHING...Rossetter, Laura. Mountain biking Colorado’s historic mining districts /Laura Rossetter. p. cm. 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