 | | 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) | | 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 (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 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) | | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Chapter I. Mining Districts of Counties and the State of Utah. .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 County Listings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Chapter II. Mining Districts of Utah . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . 4 Mineral Localities Listed by County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Beaver County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |  | | 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) | | on sulfide and nonsulfide mineralogy, gold and silver grades and deposit tonnage. A discussion of ore... local geographical area, mineralogy, gold and silver grades, tonnage, and references are given in table...deposit. Table 4, part B, gives an alphabetic list of mine and properties followed by the deposit name. CHARACTERISTICS... These deposits are primarily worked for gold. Silver is a minor byproduct; about 14 percent of the deposits...deposits described here have reported silver grades. Sulfides commonly make up less than 5 percent of |  | | 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 |  | | 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 |  | | Book (volume) | | in elev. From 1,000’ on the eastern border with Montana and Iowa to 3,500’ along the western boundary with...instance, a single Spodumene crystal from the Etta Mine near Keystone on the east side of the Mount Rushmore...commercial production of minerals, principally Gold, Silver, Copper, Iron, Lead, Manganese and Zinc, along...beds, excavations, etc.Selenite roses. BRULE COUNTY AREA: in the Oacoma zone of the Pierre Fm. On Elm...gray Barite rosette up to 5 or 6 inches. CAMPBELL COUNTY MOUND CITY, W to the Missouri R., regional hillsides |  | | Report (issue) | | RECONNAISSANCE OF THE COTTONWOOD-AMERICAN FORK MINING REGION, UTAH. By B. S. BUTLER and G. F. LOUGHLIN...the summer of 1912 during a reconnaissance of the mining districts of Utah made in a general study of the...presented Avill be of assistance to those engaged in mining. It should be borne in mind that both the descriptions...general features of the district, lack the detail desirable for the laying out of mining development. Such...very careful mapping. A portion of the Park City district, mapped by Boutwell, Irving, and Woolsey, is shown |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | at Hotazel and N'Chwaning, South Africa; at Butte, Montana; at Mont St. Hilaire, Ouebec; at several localities...Rhodochrosite occurs in significant amounts in many mining districts of the Colorado mineral belt, a large...southwestem comer of Colorado. Most of the metal mining in Colorado has been within this belt since the...Sweet Home mine, the 1 1. Urad mine, Clear Creek County 1. Sweet Home mine, Park County Climax mine, the Eagle...Eagle 12. Moose mine, Gilpin County 2. Sunnyside mine, San Juan County mine in Gilman, and var13. Julia |  | | 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) | | Famous mineral localities: the Home Sweet Home mine ..................................................quartz, 10 cm tall, from the Yucca Hill claim, Park County, Colorado. Richard A. Kosnar specimen; photo by...significant mineral localities in C o l o r a d o ,by county. In addition, there is a complete listing o f all...type localities, and an alphabetical cross-index by mine name. T INTRODUCTION In the Spring of 1976 a group...LOCALITY INDEX BOULDER COUNTY Caribou Mine Caribou (near Nederland), Caribou District (Silver, Uraninite, Galena |  | | Report (issue) | | ORE DEPOSITS OF THE SIERRITA MOUNTAINS, PIMA COUNTY, ARIZONA. By F. L. RANSOME. INTRODUCTION. The Sierrita...Arizona. They separate the Santa Cruz Valley on the east from Altar Valley on the west. The range has a length...estimated at 4 miles. The height of the dominating summit, Samaniego Peak, has, so far as known, not been...prospects within what is locally known as the Papago district, although they appear to be included within what...called the Sierritas district. On the east side of the range lies the Pima district, within which are a |  | | Report (issue) | | University United States Smelting, Refining and Mining Company · . . . Utah Geological Association · ... .First Security Corporation . . . . . . .Utah Mining Association · United Park City Mines Company ·...officio member MINERAL RESOURCE POTENTIAL OF PIUTE COUNTY, UTAH AND ADJOINING AREA by Eugene Callaghan ...This study of the mineral resources of the Piute County area, prepared under a Utah Geological and Mineralogical...evaluation of the production potential of the lead-zinc-silver, gold, uranium, manganese and iron, alunite and |  | | 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 . . . . .. . . . . . |  | | 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) | | 250 years, men have sought to extract gold and silver from these mountains. However, it was not until...of their mineral wealth. In addition to gold and silver, the region produced economic quantities of lead...zinc, tungsten, and copper. In 1896 world-renowned mining engineer Thomas ''T.A." Rickard called the San...San Juans one of Colorado's four great mining regions along with Leadville, Cripple Creek, and Central City...during the eighteenth century, were the first to mine in the San Juans. One of the earliest recorded expeditions |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | INDICES OF RHODOCHROSITE;RHODOCHROSITE FROM BUTTE. MONTANA* Russrn G. Wevr,nNl, Suraey,W ashington,D'...Rhodochrosite lrom Butte, Montana, is described and analyses of rhodochrosite and onkerite from Butte are given...of an investigation of manganese reserves at Butte, Montana, with Charles F. Park, Jr., that the writer...This is especially true of rhodochrosite from Butte, Montana, but is equally true of many specimens from...Sci.,7r365-36g(1917);fromtheJohnReed mine, Alicante, Lake County, Colorado, transparent crystals, r\r |  | | Report (issue) | | description of the geology, mining history, and production of the major gold-mining districts in 21 States...relations ---------------------------History of gold mining and trends in production_ J\labama -----------...--------------Cleburne County ----------~----------------- Tallapoosa County --------------------------Alaska...------------------Cochise County -----------------------------Gila County --------------------------------Greenlee...ee County ----------------------------R[aricopa County ----------------------------R[ohave County -- |  | | Report (issue) | | CHARLES D. WALCOTT, DIRECTOR GEOLOGY ASPEN MINING DISTRICT, COLORADO WITH ATLAS JOSIAH EDWARD SFURR ...CHAPTER II. General descriptive geology 41 41 _ Montana formation. Laramie formation xvii _ 53 _ 54...structure 130 131 Description of sections Aspen district 127 128 Faulting Resume 120 125 Description...of sections.. Resume of structure in the Aspen district 137 CHAPTER III. 143 Description of mines...Aspen Mountain mining map West Aspen Mountain Tourtelotte Park Tonrtelotte Park mining map. Smuggler Mountain |  | | Report (issue) | | MANGANESE AT BUTTE, MONTANA. By J. T. PARDEE. INTRODUCTION. The great increase in the value of manganese...attention to the manganiferous gangue of the silver-zinc lodes at Butte, Mont., a material which, although formerly...published reports describing the ore deposits of Butte, supplemented by a brief field examination in August...richer of these two grades so far reported by the mining companies, though not wholly satisfactory, by no...manganiferous material below the oxidized zone at Butte consists of rhodochrosite and rhodonite, the carbonate |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | view of the Tenderfoot mine (about 19131, Esterbrook copper district, Albany County. John Taylor collection...and Grace Dyck and wus titled “The Sunrise Iron Mine near Hartville, Wyoming”; it appeared in the MaylJune...titled “The Copper Mountain Pegmatite District, Freniont County, Wyoming” and was in the JulylAugust 2001...most notable ones. The localities are listed by county and then in alphabeticnl order. Where numerous...under the district name. District names are from Hausel (1986). Localities by County Albany County Allanite |  | | Catalog/List | | and Nevada were his favorites because of their mining and coin minting history. During his second year...the university, Kevin delved into mineralogy and mining history, and began to update his mineral collection...exploring scores of abandoned mining towns from California to New Mexico to Montana. He did extensive research...and in particular, the towns of the Hwy 95 mining district from Rhyolite to Goldfield and Tonopah. Kevin...memories are of collecting quartz in Montana, calcite in Utah, silver, galena, sphalerite, and amethyst |
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Emma Mine, Butte Mining District, Silver Bow County, Montana, USA