Butte, Montana: Minerals, mines, and history.

From: The Mineralogical Record | Date: January 1, 2002| Author: Jenkins, Robert E.; Lorengo, Jerry A. | Copyright information

For more than 100 years Butte's dozens of mines have been a source of extraordinary specimens of an equally extraordinary number of minerals. A total of 130 mineral species have been recorded from Butte. Specimens of copper sulfides and sulfosalts like bornite, chalcocite, colusite, covellite, digenite, djurleite, and enargite rank among the finest in the world. The best of Butte pyrite compares with the best anywhere. Handsome specimens of barite, quartz, rhodochrosite, silver, an...

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