 | Gunter, Mickey E., Dyar, M. Darby, Twamley, Brendan, Foit, Franklin F., Cornelius, Scott (2003) Composition, Fe3+/∑Fe, and crystal structure of non-asbestiform and asbestiform amphiboles from Libby, Montana, U.S.A. American Mineralogist, 88 (11) 1970-1978 doi:10.2138/am-2003-11-1240 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | non-asbestiform and asbestiform amphiboles from Libby, Montana, U.S.A. MICKEY E. GUNTER,1,* M. DARBY DYAR,2 BRENDAN...collected from the former vermiculite mine near Libby, Montana. A crystal structure analysis, compositional...dominantly compositions ranging from winchite to richterite. Mössbauer spectroscopy yielded Fe3+/SFe ratios...with the former values would be classified as richterite and those with the latter as winchite. INTRODUCTION...attention focused on the small town of Libby, Montana in November 1999 when a newspaper article in the |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Montana Mineral Locality Index
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NOWN
AS THE
TREASURE STATE,
Montana is rich in mineral and gemstone localities. The
state motto...with its representation of mining tools
clearly proclaim Montana’s mining origins. Montana’s
production...published
describing the occurrence, collecting, mining, and cutting of the two state gemstones.
Figure...Granville Stuart established
Montana’s first mining camp at Gold Creek
in 1860.
Geologic Provinces
The state |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | chemical
data: Fingerprinting vermiculite from Libby, Montana U.S.A.
MICKEY E. GUNTER,1,* ERON SINGLETON,1 BRYAN...In the fall of 1999, the small town of Libby, Montana became
the focus of our nation·s newest asbestos-related...miners who had worked in the now-closed vermiculite mine near
Libby died from asbestos-related diseases caused...expanded vermiculite from Libby (commercially termed Zonolite) was home attic insulation. Consequently, the...approximately 70% of the amphiboles are
winchite, 20% richterite, and 8% tremolite, with the remainder
being magnesioriebeckite |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 1540–1542, 2000
Amphibole asbestos from Libby, Montana: Aspects of nomenclature
ANN G. WYLIE1 AND JENNIFER...Gaithersburg, Maryland, 20899, U.S.A.
ABSTRACT
Richterite-asbestos and winchite-asbestos are not listed...winchite is found in the gangue at the Libby, Montana, vermiculite
deposit, where asbestos-related diseases...being variably classified as soda tremolite,
richterite, sub-calcic actinolite, and winchite. A classification...particular, the sodic-calcic amphiboles winchite and richterite are not regulated.
An asbestiform amphibole occurs |  | Meeker, G.P., Bern, A.M., Brownfield, I.K., Lowers, H.A., Sutley, S.J., Hoefen, T.M., Vance, J.S. (2003) The Composition and Morphology of Amphiboles from the Rainy Creek Complex, Near Libby, Montana. American Mineralogist, 88 (11) 1955-1969 doi:10.2138/am-2003-11-1239 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Morphology of Amphiboles from the Rainy Creek Complex, Near
Libby, Montana
G.P. MEEKER,1,* A.M. BERN,1 I...in the world in
the Rainy Creek alkaline-ultramafic complex near Libby, Montana, were collected and analyzed...reported in the residents of Libby, and in former mine and mill workers. The amphibole-rich
samples were...analysis, indicates the presence of winchite, richterite, tremolite, and magnesioriebeckite. The amphiboles...gentle abrasion or crushing.
INTRODUCTION
The Rainy Creek alkaline-ultramafic complex (Fig. 1) contains |  | | Report (issue) | | Idaho, Montana, New Mexico, and Wyoming)
50 µm
115°W
Libby ("Zonolite") vermiculite mine
August 1966...(Skinner and others, 1988), such as winchite,
richterite (Meeker and others, 2003), and fluoro-edenite...production (Ross and Virta,
2001; Virta, 2002). Mining of crocidolite (asbestiform riebeckite) and amosite...operation mined chrysotile deposits in California; this mine closed in 2002.
Naturally Occurring Asbestos
Mounting...asbestos into the environment from
manufacturing, mining, and other occupational sites. Less straightforward |  | Bandli, B. R., Gunter, M. E., Twamley, B., Foit, F. F., Cornelius, S. B. (2003) OPTICAL, COMPOSITIONAL, MORPHOLOGICAL, AND X-RAY DATA ON ELEVEN PARTICLES OF AMPHIBOLE FROM LIBBY, MONTANA, U.S.A. The Canadian Mineralogist, 41 (5) 1241-1253 doi:10.2113/gscanmin.41.5.1241 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | DATA ON ELEVEN PARTICLES OF AMPHIBOLE FROM LIBBY, MONTANA, U.S.A. BRYAN R. BANDLI¶ AND MICKEY E. GUNTER§...Amphibole crystals from the former vermiculite mine near Libby, Montana, were examined using three different analytical... Libby, Montana. SOMMAIRE Nous avons examiné des cristaux d’amphibole provenant de la mine de vermiculite...vermiculite près de Libby, au Montana, maintenant fermée, au moyen de trois méthodes analytiques, soit les...asbestiforme, morphologie des cristaux, Libby, Montana. ¶ § Present address: MVA, Inc., 5500 Oakbrook |  | | Report (issue) | | 2015 Mining and Mineral Symposium
May 8–10, 2015
Montana Bureau of Mines and Geology
Butte, Montana
TABLE...Volcanics of Southwestern MT
Kaleb C. Scarberry, Montana Bureau of Mines and Geology .................................................... 8
Minerals of Montana, A Journey Across the Treasure State
Michael J........................... 10
Use of Narrow Vein Mining Methods and Geologic Grade Control on the J-M Reef...PalladiumPlatinum Deposit
Sarah Jensen, Stillwater Mining Company, Nye, MT ............................. |  | | Report (volume) | | the type of amphibole (e.g., it is different in richterite than
in pargasite-kaersutite), but the methods...equations reported in Table 12. Synthetic M(4)K-richterite
(KK-RIC; Yang et al. 1999), and magnesiosadaganite...of
cations in synthetic amphiboles along the richterite-pargasite join. Eur J Mineral 11:79-94
Dick LA...non-asbestiform and asbestiform amphiboles from Libby, Montana, U.S.A. Am Mineral 88:1970-1978
Hanisch K (1966)...amphibole from the Kajlidongri manganese mine, Jhabua district, Madhya Pradesh, India. Am Mineral
77:1112-1115 |  | | Catalog/List | | . . . . . 57
Auriferous, with rock; Canada or Montana . . . . . . . . . . . 45
ASBESTOS-See Amositc,...flawed, .25 per ounce
Caesium-bearing, white masses; Mine . a . . . . . . . . . . . 1 13
BERZELIANITE (cuprous...CHALCOCITE (cuprous sulfide)
lvlassive, high grade; :Montana, A rizona, etc., 1 x 2 ',
.6 0.. . .... ... . ...lo 2', Transvaal. .59
Xl,-fragments in gneiss; Montana .... . . . . . . .......48
Small waterworn xis...(cuprous sulfide-isometric form)
Massive with Pyrite; Montana ..... .. . . . . .... . .. . . 150
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Filmset...Al)16O34(Cl,SO4,CO3)4.0-6H2O, from a lapis-lazuli mine, Sar-e-Sang,
Badakshan province, Afghanistan. The...Greenish-blue hexagonal crystals from the Bou-Skour copper mine, Jebel Sarhro,*
Ouazazate,* Morocco, have the composition...270. Natural /1-FeOOH, occurring at the
Akagane mine, Iwate prefecture, Japan, and named from the locality...(Akatoreite). Orange-brown
sheaves of prisms from Akatore Creek, Dunedin, New Zealand, are anorthic, a 8-344, b |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | pseudo-hexagonal (orthorhombic ?)
crystals from Armen mine, Kongsberg, Norway. Named from the
locality. [M...Named
from the locality, Askana (Ac~aRa), Ozurgety district, Georgia, Transcaucasia. [M.A. 7-426.]
Ayasite...named from the locality, Berezovsk (BepesoscK),
a mining village 13 kin. ME. of Ekaterinburg (now Sverdlovsk)...corundum-plagioclase veins at Buldymsk, Sverdlovsk
district, Ural. Named from the locality.
Caesium-spodumene... resulting from underground fires in the Kalata
mine, Kirovgrad, Ural. Named after Mr. S. M. Kirov (C |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | A steel-grey mineral from the Sedmochislenitsi mine, Bulgaria, with tennantite, bornite, chalcopyrite...with klockmannite and tellurites at the Bambolla mine, Moctezuma, Sonora, Mexico, are tetragonal, a 3"865...the Foote Company's spodumene mine at Kings Mountain, Cleveland County, North Carolina, have a IO.OI67...Mn ~+ and Mn 3+ from the Takayama mine, a branch of the Bunko mine, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan: 'believed...in a granite pegmatite at the Evans-Lou feldspar mine, 22 miles N. of Ottawa, are orthorhombic, a 13.282 |  | | Book | | b} (of Chesnokov) calcium iron
oxide from burning mine dump
Acid Aluminium Phosphate = (of
Marchand) inadequately...Chesnokov) calcium
chloro-oxy-silicate from burning
mine dump
Afanerita, Afonesa, Afanesite,
Afanezit, Afonite...Chesnokov) calcium
chlorosilicate from a burning mine
dump
Albriltonite = an artificial hydrated
cobalt...(of Jusli) m ixture of
Chlorargyrite and Calcite? [Mine
d'Argent Alkaline]
Alkalidavyn, Alkalidavyne =...[Di-Trioctahedral Chlorite)
and Beidellite
Aiuto Montana = Asbestos,
Palygorskite [Bergkork]
Alvoite = |  | Kogel, Jessica Elzea, Trivedi, Nikhil C., Barker, James M., Krukowski, Stanley T. - Eds. (2006) Industrial Minerals and Rocks (7th ed.) Society for Mining, Metallurgy, and Exploration, Inc., Littleton, CO. | Book (edition) | | © 2006 by the Society for Mining, Metallurgy, and Exploration.
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Eletronic edition |  | | Report (volume) | | improved technology that has made it profitable to mine material of lower anq lower grade.
Reclamation is...for effective research in 1nining technology
( mining methods, mechanization, tranSJ?Ortation, rock breaking...larger and cheaper supply through
more economical mining methods. Whereas
generation of electricity and...discovery
of new sources and the solution of numerous
mining ,a nd metallurgical problems. A challenging problem...producers in the ·Western Hemisphere. Although bauxite mining started as
late as 1952 in Jamaica, the country |  | | Book (edition) | | Elements: Mineralogy,
Ceoloe,, Recovery. Сап. Institute Mining Metallurgy,
Montreal, pp.267.
Chester. A.H. (1896)...Astochil = Мп-rich richterite, Anis. Л1in. 63, 1023 (1978).
Astorite = richterite, Am. Min. 63, 1023...
Glossary of ОЬхоlие Мй,ега' Namtt
Cadmium-richterite = synthetic Nа1Cdмg5[Si,O„h(0Н)s, Ent: J. Mtn...microsommite or nepheline, Chester 48 (1896).
Caro-montana = actinolite, Aballam et al. 65 (1968).
Caronene...chalcanthite, Dana Gth, 80 & 941 (1892).
Chalcitis (Creek) = chalcocite, Dana 6th, xlüi (1892).
Chalcitis |  | | Book (edition) | |
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district (Dana 6th edn, 201) has been shown to be Cuprite...18.
Mn, Mg, and Ca: Soda-richterite, 14.18.24.
Mn, K, Mg, and Ca: Richterite, 14.18.25.
Mn and metals...Parsettensite, 14.17.13 (in part).
Mn, Na, Mg, and Ca: Richterite, 14.18.25.
Mn and metals other than Na, Mg, or...Ca: Magnophorite, 14.6.20.
K, Na, Ca, and Mn: Richterite, 14.18.25.
K, Cu, Ca, Mn, and Fe: Karamsinite |  | | Book (edition) | | 61030
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References to published data cited in the tabulations...Chinese Science Bulletin
Canadian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, Special Volume
Clay Minerals
Clays...Diffraction
Proceedings of the Australasian Institute of Mining and
Metallurgy
Proceedings of the Lunar Science...1991/176, 133 (str);
Stumpfl & Clark:Trans. Inst. Mining Metall.1965/74, B933; Oen & Kieft: Mh 1974, l;Verryn |  | | Book (edition) | | Dictionary of Mining, Mineral, & Related Terms
Compiled and edited
by the Staff of
the U.S. Bureau of...Graham, Director
FOREWORD
The need for a revised mining dictionary is obvious when one considers the technological...that have occurred since the
Bureau's previous mining dictionaries were published. The Bureau had pioneered...the Mining and Minerals
Industry," and continuing to the 1968 publication "A Dictionary of Mining, Minerals...Minerals, and
Related Terms."
To develop a modern mining dictionary, the U.S. Bureau of Mines initiated |  | | Book (edition) | |
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as an internal disinfectant.
All-Mine Pig.
All-Mine Pig.
All-O.
See Staffordshire
A proprietary...heavy sands obtained in
the Chinese process of tin-mining in
Malaya.
Amantadine. A drug used in the treatment...and 40 per cent,
ammonium nitrate.
sive.
A coal-mine explosive
containing 9-1 1 per cent, of nitro-glycerin...until the latter
increases in weight by about ^.
.
mine in ammonia.
Ammonia, Copperised. See Willesden...Hexamethylene-tetra-
.C H 14
(C H 12 N
A urinary antiseptic.
mine - camphorate,
(COOH) 2
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