Mining engineer Sam Houghton optioned the New Year Group of mines in 1926. The development of a 140-foot-deep shaft followed with the discovery of profitable quantities of gold, vanadium and lead.

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Pegasus Gold Corp. excavated the southwestern face of the Little Rockies in Phillips County from 1979 to 1996 using cyanide heap leaching to extract small amounts of gold from large amounts of rock.

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