Alder Gulch - Wikipedia
Alder Gulch (alternatively called Alder Creek) is a place in the Ruby River valley, in the U.S. state of Montana, where gold was discovered on May 26, 1863, by William Fairweather and a group of men including Barney Hughes, Thomas Cover, Henry Rodgers, Henry Edgar and Bill Sweeney who were returning to the gold fields of Grasshopper Creek, Bannack, Montana.
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Alder Gulch – Wikipedia
Alder Gulch (auch Alder Creek genannt) ist ein Ort im Tal des Ruby River im Madison County (Montana) im US-Bundesstaat Montana, wo am 26. Mai 1863 Gold entdeckt wurde, und zwar von William Fairweather und einer Gruppe von Männern, darunter Barney Hughes, Thomas Cover, Henry Rodgers, Henry Edgar und Bill Sweeney, die zu den Goldfeldern von Grasshopper Creek, Bannack (Montana), zurückkehrten. Sie waren von Bannack aus auf dem Weg ins Yellowstone-Land (heute Yellowstone Co…
Alder Gulch - Virginia City - Western Mining History
1866-1906 another $10,000,000 in gold produced from alder gulch (lyden, 1948). total production was 2,500,000 ounces. 1898- conrey placer mining company organized. over 37 million cubic yards were placered using six connected-bucket dredges. dredging operations here were discontinued in the 1920s. 1935-1937 humphrey?s gold corporation recovered 19,591.7 fine oz gold using a dry-land dredge. …
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Mining in Alder Gulch has not been restricted to just placer mining and dredging operations. Lode mining in the area got under way shortly after the first discoveries of gold. The first lode claims were made in 1864 and five mills were in operation the following year.
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20 Acre Placer Claim – Yaak District – Lincoln County, Montana Presenting the Historic Whiskey Gulch Placer Mining Claim for sale, a 20 Acre Unpatented Placer Mining Claim. The claim is located just outside of Libby, Montana and has been marked. All of our mining claims have been carefully surveyed, mapped and researched.
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04.02.2012 · The Alder Gulch find became one of the largest placer mining gold fields in the western U.S. The mining settlements of Virginia City and Nevada City, Montana, which sprang up in Alder Gulch, boasted thousands of prospectors and fortune seekers by the end of 1863.
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In 1897, The Conrey Placer Mining Co. began using the new placer mining technology of dredging. Four huge dredges were eventually built and the installation of high voltage power lines, brought in to power the dredges, made electrical history in Alder Gulch. Dredging continued into the 1930;s. At the beginning of World War II, however, gold was declared a "nonessential mineral", and dynamiting …
Where to find Gold in Montana. Panning and …
The town of Bannack (west of present day Dillon, Montana) was built and soon thousands of miners were scouring the creeks and hillsides for the yellow metal. By the spring of the next year, huge gold deposits were found in Alder Gulch at Virginia City. Modern day prospectors will be right at home in Montana. The state has produced thousands of ounces of gold each year since the initial discoveries …
Montana Gold Claims
The Montana Department Of Environmental Quality, reports. “ The Cedar Creek Mining District, known primarily for its placer deposits, encompasses Cedar, Quartz, and Trout Creeks, rising near the crest of the northward extension of the Bitterroot Mountain range.
The Discovery of Gold at Alder Gulch - Montana …
Within a few weeks, the banks of Alder Gulch were teeming with hundreds of hopeful prospectors, and nine new mining camps had begun to take shape with such names as Virginia City, Nevada City, and Adobetown. Just as quickly, the men who had made the original discovery began to drift apart and away from the El Dorado they had stumbled upon. At its liming, as many as 15,000 people, famous and ...
Gold Mining History of Confederate Gulch, Montana
The Richest Mining Ground in Montana Located on the east of the Missouri River between Townsend and Helena, Confederate Gulch is about 90 miles northeast of the Alder Gulch, another rich mining area in Montana. This gulch contained some of the wealthiest placer gold in Montana.
Montana Gold Claims: Montana Placer Gold …
The Big Flat Project comprises multiple unpatented mining claims (1200 acres) located in Mineral County, Montana. The contiguious block of claims collectively encompass the potential lode sources for the placer workings. The property is located within a historically productive gold district.
The Strike In Alder Gulch (Montana Gold Claims)
Found this fascinating bit of the history about Montanas largest gold strike. Hope you enjoy! "It was a warm afternoon... the sun was shining brightly." Henry Edgar, Anaconda Standard, September 5, 1899 It was about four oclock in the afternoon...
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