The claims are located in the historically proven gold-bearing area of Oregon Creek known as the Big Flat: the location of one of the richest gold strikes in Mineral County, Montana. The gold from this district was notably fine; some gold that was 982 fine was recovered and it was not u...
Mountains of Gold: The Rosia Montana mine is one of the oldest mines in the world, hut now it threatens to destroy the ancient village it long ago built.An essay is presented on the social, economic and environmental impact that the Rosia Montana mine in Rosia Montana, Transylvania, ...
Montana was a perfect spot for gold prospectors. First discovered in 1852, large scale gold mining did not take place until 1862 in Bannack. Over the next two years more gold was discovered in Virginia City (1863), Helena (1864), and Butte (1864). Eager to secure the area and its min...
The titans of the mines, Marcus Daly and William A. Clark, contended bitterly for ownership of the mineral deposits and for political control, and their rivalry was fought out physically by the miners. F. Augustus Heinze also entered the scramble for copper riches, challenging the claims of ...
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The total production of gold up to and including the year 1876 is conservatively estimated at $140,000,000. At about that time silver mining began to assume paramount importance, but about 1890 it yielded preeminence to copper, which is at present the chief metal produced. The copper mines ...
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the Butte Hill and its huge copper deposits were known as "the richest hill on earth." Butte became a melting pot of ethnic diversity as immigrants flocked to the mines for employment. After a worldwide slump in the copper market shut down mining operations in 1983, Butte citizens bounced ...
"There was an awful lot of travel going through this country north and east into the gold mines and returning this way in the 1860's and early 1870's." McLeod. "The Spokane Falls used to be a rendezvous for the Indians who usually had large camps in the vicinity." Paine reportedly ...