Western Mining History
Sign In

Montana Mines

Montana mines
Distribution of mines in Montana. Yellow dots are mines with gold listed as a primary commodity. Black dots are mines without gold as a primary commodity, but may have gold listed as a secondary or tertiary commodity

About the MRDS Mines Database:

All mine locations were obtained from the USGS Mineral Resources Data System. The locations and other information in this database have not been verified for accuracy. It should be assumed that all mines are on private property.

Montana Mines By County

Beaverhead County Mines (857 Mines)
Big Horn County Mines (4 Mines)
Blaine County Mines (11 Mines)
Broadwater County Mines (368 Mines)
Carbon County Mines (84 Mines)
Carter County Mines (24 Mines)
Cascade County Mines (105 Mines)
Chouteau County Mines (7 Mines)
Custer County Mines (3 Mines)
Deer Lodge County Mines (220 Mines)
Fallon County Mines (15 Mines)
Fergus County Mines (122 Mines)
Flathead County Mines (83 Mines)
Gallatin County Mines (57 Mines)
Garfield County Mines (2 Mines)
Glacier County Mines (22 Mines)
Golden Valley County Mines (1 Mines)
Granite County Mines (784 Mines)
Hill County Mines (7 Mines)
Jefferson County Mines (931 Mines)
Judith Basin County Mines (112 Mines)
Lake County Mines (16 Mines)
Lewis and Clark County Mines (601 Mines)
Liberty County Mines (4 Mines)
Lincoln County Mines (237 Mines)
Madison County Mines (948 Mines)
Meagher County Mines (108 Mines)
Mineral County Mines (237 Mines)
Missoula County Mines (194 Mines)
Park County Mines (448 Mines)
Phillips County Mines (40 Mines)
Pondera County Mines (8 Mines)
Powder River County Mines (3 Mines)
Powell County Mines (381 Mines)
Ravalli County Mines (163 Mines)
Richland County Mines (3 Mines)
Roosevelt County Mines (1 Mines)
Rosebud County Mines (1 Mines)
Sanders County Mines (227 Mines)
Silver Bow County Mines (482 Mines)
Stillwater County Mines (36 Mines)
Sweet Grass County Mines (137 Mines)
Teton County Mines (12 Mines)
Treasure County Mines (2 Mines)
Wheatland County Mines (1 Mines)
Wibaux County Mines (6 Mines)

Content Available To Members

Story of the Drumlummon Mine (1903 Newspaper)
"For many years nearly every resident of the great northwest, together with those of the money centers of the commercial world, have been familiar with the name of the once colossal and fabulously rich gold-bearing quartz mine known as the Drumlummon. It was a remarkable property, and was fashioned by nature upon a heroic scale; heroic in its extent, heroic in its volume of ore, heroic in the wealth of its output, and heroic in its far-reaching effects upon the quartz mining industry of Montana and of contiguous states."