Mine detail: Stillwater Anorthosite

Previously called 'Stillwater Complex'

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Location: Sweet Grass County, Montana, United States, North America
Lat / long: 45.46162, -110.0727
dep_id: 10221786
mas_id: 300970002
Commodity type: metallic and nonmetallic
Major mineral: Aluminum
Trace mineral: Iron, Magnesite, Silica, Sodium, Calcium
Operation type: Surface
Development status: Prospect
other_matl: Bytownite, Enstatite, Olivine
work_type: Surface
Reporter: McHugh, Edward L.
disc_yr: 1916
References:
  • Deposit:: HESS, H.H. STILLWATER IGNEOUS COMPLEX, MONTANA. GEOL.
  • Deposit:: SOC. AM. MEM. 80, 1960, 230 PP.
  • Deposit:: FENTON, M.D. AND G. FAURE. THE AGE OF IGNEOUS ROCKS
  • Deposit:: OF THE STILLWATER COMPLEX. GEOL. SOC. AMER. BULL.
  • Deposit:: V. 80, 1969, PP. 1599-1604.
  • Deposit:: JONES, W.R., J.W. PEOPLES, AND A.L. HOWLAND. IGNEOUS
  • Deposit:: AND TECTONIC STRUCTURES OF THE STILLWATER COMPLEX,
  • Deposit:: MONTANA. U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULL. 1071-W, 1960, PP. 281-340
  • Deposit:: ST. CLAIR, H.W., D.A. ELKINS, B.K. SHIBLER, W.M. MAHAN,
  • Deposit:: R.C. MERRITT, M.R. HOWCROFT, AND M. HAYASHI. OPERATION
  • Deposit:: OF EXPERIMENTAL PLANT FOR PRODUCING ALUMINA FROM
  • Deposit:: ANORTHOSITE. BUMINES BULL. 577, 1959, 127 PP.
  • Deposit:: TURNER, F.J., AND J. VERHOOGEN. IGNEOUS AND METAMORPHIC
  • Deposit:: PETROLOGY; 2ND ED.. MCGRAW HILL BOOK CO., PUB., 1960,
  • Deposit:: PP. 300-302.
  • Deposit:: U.S. BUREAU OF MINES IC 8335, P. 86-87, 1967.
  • Deposit:: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY CIRCULAR 684, P. 6.
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