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Butte, Continental, Berkely, Anaconda Vein
Montana, USA
Main commodities: Cu Mo




The most recent source geological information used to prepare this description was dated: 1996.    
This description is a summary from published sources, the chief of which are listed below.
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    Selected References
Gammons C H, Snyder D M, Poulson S R and Petritz K,  2009 - Geochemistry and Stable Isotopes of the Flooded Underground Mine Workings of Butte, Montana: in    Econ. Geol.   v104 pp 1213-1234
Houston R A and Dilles J H,  2013 - Structural Geologic Evolution of the Butte District, Montana: in    Econ. Geol.   v.108 pp. 1397-1424
Mercer C N and Reed M H  2013 - Porphyry Cu-Mo Stockwork Formation by Dynamic, Transient Hydrothermal Pulses: Mineralogic Insights from the Deposit at Butte, Montana : in    Econ. Geol.   v.108 pp. 1347-1377
Nahnybida T, Gleeson S A, Rusk B G and Wassenaar L I,  2009 - Cl/Br ratios and stable chlorine isotope analysis of magmatic–hydrothermal fluid inclusions from Butte, Montana and Bingham Canyon, Utah: in    Mineralium Deposita   v.44 pp. 837-848
Reed M, Rusk B and Palandri J,  2013 - The Butte Magmatic-Hydrothermal System: One Fluid Yields All Alteration and Veins: in    Econ. Geol.   v.108 pp. 1379-1396
Rusk B G, Reed M H and Dilles J H,   2008 - Fluid inclusion evidence for magmatic-hydrothermal fluid evolution in the porphyry copper-molybdenum deposit at Butte, Montana: in    Econ. Geol.   v103 pp 307-334
Rusk B G, Reed M H, Dilles J H and Kent A J R,  2006 - Intensity of quartz cathodoluminescence and trace-element content in quartz from the porphyry copper deposit at Butte, Montana : in    American Mineralogist   v91 pp 1300-1312
Rusk B, Reed M  2002 - Scanning electron microscope-cathodoluminescence analysis of quartz reveals complex growth histories in veins from the Butte Porphyry Copper deposit, Montana: in    Geology   v30 pp 727-730


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