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Weed, W. H.; Geology and Ore Deposits of the Butte District, Montana. USGS Prof. Paper 74, GPO, Washington, 1912. Quarto, pp. 262 pages, 41 plates (including 25 folded plates and maps in rear pocket), 109 figs.
The work is complete and in the original green cloth with gilt spine titles. The binding is tight and clean, spine lightly sun faded, rear board lightly faded. The text is clean and bright, all maps and plates clean and bright. In very good condition.
Weed completed one of the earliest comprehensive studies of the famous Butte mining districts, its geology, stratigraphy, ore bodies, their genesis and the mineralogy of the copper deposits.
