Looking into the main adit of the mine, this adit has produced most of the barite specimens.
Chris Tucker Minerals
Specializing in minerals from
Montana
Pack Rat Mine, Carbon
County, Montana.
The workings of the Pack Rat mine date from the
1950's uranium boom. The mine workings consist of two short adits driven in
Mississippian Madison Limestone. The adits were apparently driven either
as an exploration project or to reach an ore body located by diamond drilling.
The mine has produced thousands of specimens of barite along with minor amounts
of quartz, pyrite, fluorite, calcite, marcasite, and tyuyamunite. I am
proud to have owned this mine for over ten years and to have personally produced
nearly every specimen from it.
Looking into the main adit of the mine, this adit has
produced most of the barite specimens.
Looking out the east adit of the Pack Rat mine.
Looking southeast from the mine. While the terrain
is rugged and harsh there is extreme beauty no matter the time of year.
Besides the snakes and pack rats, the harsh landscape is
home to a number of other species.
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