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Chalcocite from
Berkeley Mine, Butte Mining District (Summit Valley Mining District), Silver Bow County, Montana, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Chalcocite
Formula:Cu2S
Confirmation
Validity:Confirmed
Confirmation Methods:Dealer/Collection Label
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Chalcocite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Berkeley Mine, Butte Mining District (Summit Valley Mining District), Silver Bow County, Montana, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1434529
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1434529:2
GUID (UUID V4):1ac779f3-88f1-45c3-9ad4-4aa7d82d7006
Nearest other occurrences of Chalcocite
0.3km (0.2 miles) Rarus Mine, Butte Mining District (Summit Valley Mining District), Silver Bow County, Montana, USA
0.4km (0.2 miles) Pennsylvania Mine, Butte Mining District (Summit Valley Mining District), Silver Bow County, Montana, USA
0.4km (0.2 miles) Tramway Mine, Butte Mining District (Summit Valley Mining District), Silver Bow County, Montana, USA
0.4km (0.3 miles) Silver Bow Mine, Butte Mining District (Summit Valley Mining District), Silver Bow County, Montana, USA
0.4km (0.3 miles) Adams Mine, Butte Mining District (Summit Valley Mining District), Silver Bow County, Montana, USA
0.5km (0.3 miles) Glengarry Mine, Butte Mining District (Summit Valley Mining District), Silver Bow County, Montana, USA
0.6km (0.3 miles) Berkeley Pit, Butte Mining District (Summit Valley Mining District), Silver Bow County, Montana, USA
0.6km (0.4 miles) Ground Squirrel Mine, Butte Mining District (Summit Valley Mining District), Silver Bow County, Montana, USA
0.7km (0.4 miles) West Colusa Mine, Butte Mining District (Summit Valley Mining District), Silver Bow County, Montana, USA
0.7km (0.5 miles) Geyman Mine, Butte Mining District (Summit Valley Mining District), Silver Bow County, Montana, USA
References
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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...recorded from Butte. Specimens of copper sulfides and sulfosalts like bornite, chalcocite, colusite, covellite...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
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...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...Lincoln. Nevada...........Dr. W. S. Tangier Smith, Berkeley, Cal. New Jersey...... .Dr. H. B. Kummel, Trenton...See Bauxite and Hallpysite. Asbestos. Tallapoosa County, with corundum deposits near Dudleyville; not found
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 (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 (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
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)
..........................................258 Montana ................................................................548 Table of Maps Page Alabama County Map ...................................................................................4 Alaska County and Stream Map ..................................Co. Mining Districts ............................................................22 Arizona County Map.........................23 Arizona – Cochise Co. Mining 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)
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
Book (volume)
..........................................221 Montana .................................................rights, so remember you were told. If in doubt, a county map will tell you who the legal owner is. Good...gemmy qualities for cutting and polishing. AUTAUGA COUNTY PRATTVILLE, N. 6 mi., and just E of the Birmingham...were well known to prehistoric Indians.) BARBOUR COUNTY BAKER HILL, SE 1 mi. : 1 in a deep ravine, as a...deep red to variegated⎯ocher. BIBB COUNTY GENERAL AREA: c county gravel pits along the Cahaba R.⎯gemmy
Book (volume)
..........................................221 Montana .................................................rights, so remember you were told. If in doubt, a county map will tell you who the legal owner is. Good...gemmy qualities for cutting and polishing. AUTAUGA COUNTY PRATTVILLE, N. 6 mi., and just E of the Birmingham...were well known to prehistoric Indians.) BARBOUR COUNTY BAKER HILL, SE 1 mi. : 1 in a deep ravine, as a...deep red to variegated⎯ocher. BIBB COUNTY GENERAL AREA: c county gravel pits along the Cahaba R.⎯gemmy
Journal (issue)
California Convention 4 Yogo Sapphire Mine Reopened 4 Alpha Counters 5 Berkeley Cass iter ite "Nugget11 5 Mineral...Recent Strikes 7 Mineralogy of the Trona-Death Valley Region 9 Exchange Directory 18 Book Notes 25 Cover...OUR ADVERTISERS. The article on the Trona-Death Valley region is the first of a REGULAR SERIES V/E PLAN...California convention in the bay area v/as held in BerKELEY TEN YEARS AGO. The area is not exceptionally well...States. YOGO SAPPHIRE MINE REOPENED A REOPEN INC OF THE FAMED YOGO~ 'SAPP H I RE MINE, IN THE LITTLE BELT
Report (issue)
Continental [Butte], Montana) resources. By-Product Commodities Molybdenum, gold, and silver are the economically...polymetallic assemblage of copper-, zinc-, lead-, and silver-bearing sulfide minerals. Example Deposits There...which will vary with the price of copper and local mining costs. At Dos Pobres, Arizona, from the top of...of copper may occur as bornite, enargite, and chalcocite. By-product minerals frequently include molybdenite...assemblage is pyrite + enargite + marcasite + chalcocite (Milu and others, 2004). In supergene enriched
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Porphyry Copper Center in the Superior (Pioneer) District, Arizona SCOTT L. MANSKE† Independent Consultant...has been discovered in the Superior (Pioneer) district of east-central Arizona, lying under thick Tertiary...chalcopyrite. Within sericitically altered rock, pyrite-chalcocite-digenite-bornite veins exhibit centimeters- to...lies within the well-known Superior (Pioneer) district, a base and precious metals camp that has been...approximately 1.5 km south-southeast of shaft 9 of the Magma mine and 120 km north of the city of Tucson, Arizona
Report (issue)
company which owned the mine or deposit is given in parentheses after the name of the mine or deposit (e.g.:...(Abella Resources)). No company name is given if the mine or deposit was owned by Anaconda. Any complete reference...Nb205 Ni opt Pb Sn st Ti Ti02 U308 W W03 Zn % silver alumina gold barite beryllium beryllium oxide bismuth...million st with 0.19% Mo. [1] Arizona Banner District, Gila Co. Chillito deposit (Kennecott) reserve...massive-bedded ore both with 31% chabazite. [1] Bunker Hill District, Graham Co. Copper Creek deposit (Exxon/Newmont)
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 .................................. ·.........
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)
said to have been found in the mining the nugget Jim, Placer County, California, in 1871 by a small...Counties of California: Minerals and mineral lists Mining Districts of California Unvalidated entries in...The bibliography has been updated and expanded. County lists published by Collins (1) pp. 40-64, in Murdoch...resulting from references to the geographic term ''Mining District," especially in the pre-1920 literature. Widespread...Professor Adolf Pabst, University of California, Berkeley, issued in 1938 Bulletin 113 of the CDMG, Pabst
Book
stumble over a valuable nugget and stake your own mining claim? Indeed it to is, and author book Jay...prospecting, he points out, is in abandoned mining districts, where valuable mineral ores are present...commercial ores and secondary minerals by state, county, township, and geologic range. For easy identification...RANSOM 1875-1948 An to the Eastern '‘Schoolmarm” Mining Camps of the Old West I I a s I \ h K... CONTENTS Preface ix PART I 1 Introduction to Mining and Mineralogy 2 Preparation for Mineral Collecting
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)
MARCH, Ph.D. 1914 Issued by California State Mining Bureau McN. HAMILTON STATE MINERALOGIST F. F...Minerals of herewith Bulletin 67 of the State Mining California. This work was made possible at this...localities new and quently the The second list ^Mining' State Mineralogist. This known localities...literature of a general nature on the geology and mining industry of the State. bibliography of A. may...The excellent Vodges, Bulletin 30 of the State Mining Bureau, be referred to for such literature. The
Report (issue)
Professor of Mineralogy University of California BERKELEY CALIFORNIA STATE PRINTING OFFICE GEORGE H. MOORE...1 D E J •LEGEND- MEXICO -^ Mining O Division Boundaries. Mining Division Offices. (6) PREFACE...a part of the Fourth Annual Report of the State Mining Bureau, by Henry G. Hanks, who was then State Mineralogist...''Minerals of California," of the California State Mining Bureau. In the thirty years which had elapsed since...published as Bulletin 91 of the California State Mining Bureau. Many additional species were included,
Book
paper) . Copper mines and mining—West (U.S.)—History. . Copper mines and mining—Environmental aspects—West...)—History. . Copper mines and mining—Health aspects—West (U.S.)—History. . Mining engineering—West (U.S.)—History...  Berkeley Pit flooded   Underground miners in Butte   Butte steam engine   Map of Butte and...rock crusher   Banks of flotation cells  Berkeley Pit in     Wasteland around Washoe...motors to make a howitzer?” advertisement   Berkeley Pit dump truck burying Holy Savior School 
 
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