GOLD FROM CRATERS. The mine proposed for South Carolina, which would be larger than any gold digging operation in the eastern United States, would be an open-pit mine similar to those in Montana.

The Montana pit is about the same depth as what’s proposed for South Carolina’s new Haile Gold Mine, an operation that would become the largest open pit gold mine ever developed in South Carolina.

That means there’s a lot less gold left in mine dumps after that 1885 date. Since miners began exploring Montana to look for gold in the 1860s, Voigt has a 20-to-25-year window.

Blue Arc's plan for the mine. Ployhar, who grew up in Lewistown, said his family purchased 1,100 acres of land at the former Pegasus gold mining site more than 20 years ago and that they have ...

The Golden Sunlight Mine north of Whitehall will produce between 35,000 and 50,000 ounces of gold this year and was recently approved to ... Montana voters are deciding on a mining initiative ...

Considering the mining district has a history dating back to the 1860s and has produced about 100,000 ounces of gold at an average grade of 0.67 opt, it’s no wonder Winston Gold is eager to use ...

Jan. 21—A sign above Montana History teacher Kris Schreiner's classroom alerts Kalispell Middle School eighth graders that they are entering Alder Gulch to mine for gold and garnets. Alder Gulch ...

A contract worker has died in a machinery accident at an underground precious metals mine in south-central Montana, ... Twenty-four employees died in Sibayne-owned gold mines in South Africa in 2018.

So does Golden Sunlight Mine.. Through a program that began in 2011, Barrick Gold Corp.-owned Golden Sunlight has paid out more than $45 million to small miners in the last seven years, company ...

Jan. 21—A sign above Montana History teacher Kris Schreiner's classroom alerts Kalispell Middle School eighth graders that they are entering Alder Gulch to mine for gold and garnets. Alder Gulch ...