Armstrong Gulch Places

The Armstrong Gulch Places is a gold mine located in Beaverhead county, Montana at an elevation of 7,598 feet.

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Mine Info

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Site Name

Primary: Armstrong Gulch Places

Commodity

Primary: Gold

Location

State: Montana
County: Beaverhead
District: Birch Creek (Utopia) District

Land Status

Land ownership: National Forest
Note: the land ownership field only identifies whether the area the mine is in is generally on public lands like Forest Service or BLM land, or if it is in an area that is generally private property. It does not definitively identify property status, nor does it indicate claim status or whether an area is open to prospecting. Always respect private property.

Holdings

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Workings

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Ownership

Owner Name: Birch Creek Prospecting Co.
Years: 1884 -

Production

Not available

Deposit

Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Occurrence
Deposit Type: Placer
Operation Type: Unknown
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: N
Deposit Size: S

Physiography

General Physiographic Area: Rocky Mountain System
Physiographic Province: Northern Rocky Mountains
Physiographic Detail: Pioneer Mountains

Mineral Deposit Model

Not available

Orebody

Not available

Structure

Not available

Alterations

Not available

Rocks

Name: Alluvium
Role: Host
Age Type: Host Rock
Age Young: Holocene

Analytical Data

Not available

Materials

Ore: Gold

Comments

Comment (Development): 2.0 MI W OF INDIAN QUEEN MINE ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :1978

Comment (Deposit): COMPANY WAS NOTED AS PROSPECTING HEAD OF GULCH AND ALONG BIRCH CR . IN 1884.

Comment (Location): Political location in record is Beaverhead county. However, lat/long falls in Madison county. Original coordinates for line#1 were: lat/long NAD27 45-23-51N 112-22-15W (45.3975 -112.37083); UTM N E Z; PLSS line# 1: Meridian- Montana Principal, TWNSHP 005S, RNG 010W, Sect 16,17,18, Sect_fract . Armstrong Gulch is centered at the same latitude but 112 52W, in Beaverhead county. This agrees with the location comment "2.0 MI W OF INDIAN QUEEN MINE". Reporter likely mistyped the longitude minutes as 22 instead of 52, so they were changed to 52. The relative position description "16.9 MI N40W OF DILLON is probably incorrect, and was deleted.

References

Reference (Deposit): DIRECTOR OF MINT REPORT FOR 1884, CH. 8-MONTANA, P. 291

Principal Gold Districts of Montana

In Montana, 54 mining districts have each have produced more than 10,000 ounces of gold. The largest producers are Butte, Helena, Marysville, and Virginia City, each having produced more than one million ounces. Twenty seven other districts are each credited with between 100,000 and one million ounces of gold production. Read more: Principal Gold Districts of Montana.