By 1899, Stanton filed 145 claims up and down Glen Canyon with the intention of mining them with a fleet of dredges. Stanton viewed Glen Canyon as a gold-lined sluice box.

The Dives Mine is notable for having produced over $20,000 in gold during 1911-1914. The Dives Mining Co. built a 10-stamp amalgamation-concentration mill on the property.

Podcaster Show PlayerHowever, in a news release mine owner U.S. Silver & Gold Inc. backed off of the permanent closure statement, saying it would put its Drumlummon Mine on “care and maintenance ...

THE discovery of gold on the Witwatersrand was made in the year 1885. The growth of the field was at first slow. Some of the earliest workers believed that the auriferous gravel, exposed in ...

HELENA - Gold mining may soon begin in central Jefferson County, after an announcement this week that the owners of a permitted mine near the ghost town of Elkhorn had ...