Lucky Strike
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Operation Type : Placer Mine
Serial Number :
MT105771576
Mining Claim Size :
20 Acres
Comodities :
Gold, Silver
Price :
$4,295
Financing :
Up to 6 Months
Deposit :
20%
Features and Amenities
- Camping
- Gold
- Sapphires
- Parking
- River
- Garnets
- Silver
The Bureau of Mines has estimated that demonstrated U.S. reserves of gold are 85 million ounces. Approximately one-half of the total resources are estimated to be by-product gold, while 40% of the remaining one-half (56 million ounces) could be mined for gold alone … Most U.S. gold resources are in the nation’s western states. About 80% of the U.S. gold resources are estimated to be in Alaska, California, Idaho, Montana and Washington. (Earthsearch, Inc. 1983)
Overview of the Mines
| The Lucky Strike Mine is in an area with rich gold mining history. Estimates of total production for the district by 1911 were between $2 and $8 million. But as with all old mines and mining districts in the Western U.S., the old timers NEVER got it all! |
| We sell a lot of mining claims and everyone tells us how happy they are with them. People first want the gold for the value but once they get out to their own claim they love the freedom they have to work and enjoy the great outdoors. Don't wait, get your own gold mine before it's too late. The Lucky Strike mine is located in the northeast quarter of section 36. Lucky Strike claim is about 5500 feet in altitude. |
While it is sometimes said old mines have been ‘worked out’ as the saying means there is no gold left, the truth is “it is better to say they are worked over; it is also true that the primitive methods used and the wasteful haste to get rich indulged in, left much of the gold in the ground, so that improved methods … will give even better results than those first obtained.” (MBMG Open Report 466)
Details about the Mine:
| Access to the Mine | You can drive a full size truck or RV to the mine. |
| Tailing Present | Some. Loose gravels in the creek bed of small pebbles to larger boulders. Boulders are great places for the gold to hide. Benches on both sides of the creek are virgin ground. |
| Depth / Length | Over 600 feet of creek bed gravels. 1320 feet side to side with gold bearing benches. |
| Minerals in the Mine | Historically mined for gold. Minerals of sapphire, quartz, pyrite, galena, silver, black sands with rare earth minerals would be expected. |
| Foot traffic at the mine | Some |
| Last Worked | Unknown |
| Number of Mines | 1 Placer |
| Nearest city with amenities | Helena, approximately 16 miles |
| Access to the Claim | A very good dirt road breaks off from the Interstate and runs all the way onto the claim. |
| Parking and Staging on the Claim | Claim is situated so it allows for parking of vehicles if desired. |
| Resources | Year round water, grasses, sage and trees |
| Structures on claim | None |
| Elevation | Aprox. 5600 feet |
Montana is ranked 7th by the USGS for total gold production in the US and has 31 mining districts. Gold production for the 1800’s to 1968 is 17.8 million ounces and large amounts of gold have been mined from 1968 to present. Geologists have predicted that based on the past and the geology of Montana that several large gold and silver deposits will be found and developed in the future (Bergendahl and Koshmann, 1968).
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USGS Information
Economic information about the deposit and operations |
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| Operation Type | Placer |
|---|---|
| Development Status | Past Producer |
| Commodity type | Metallic |
| Commodities | Gold- Primary |
| Nearby Scientific Data | Cretaceous volcanic rocks |
| References | USGS Database - 10220474, 10269481, 10172881, 10196776 |
Mining District Information
Crow Creek aka Park aka Hassel District |
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| The Park District has been known under a few different names - Crow Creek and Hassel. Some online references use Crow Creek and others use Park. The Certificates of Location list Park Mining District but either of the other names would be legal also. | |
| The Crow Creek mining district is located ten miles west of Townsend on the Northern Pacific Railway. The district first began to be worked in 1866 when good placer grounds were discovered in Crow Creek. By 1871 it is estimated that $50,000 had been taken from the gravels. Some bars yielded as much as $50 per man per day; the 100 men working the creek averaged $7 per man per day. The work was seasonal for as long as the water lasted. A dam was constructed in the 1870s to control the flow of water and to extend the placer season (Stone 1911; McCormick 1990). | |
| The original placers were found in benches above Crow Creek. Materials ranged from small boulders to clay and sand, all of which were derived from andesite and sediments to the west. The lower Crow Creek placers worked in the 1940s were found in a false bedrock that was one to six feet in thickness and overlain by eight to ten feet of barren gravel (Lyden 1948). | |
| The town of Saint Louis, which was later renamed Hassel, was established in 1875 and, for a time, 35 to 40 miners resided there. The Hassel mining district consists of a cluster of claims at or near the site of the historic mining camp of Hassel. Sometimes referred to in the mining literature as "the mines near Hassel" and other times as "the Hassel mining district," the area experienced several periods of mining activity. Groupings of mines within the area reflect these periods of activity. The oldest group consists of placer claims which follow the bed of Crow Creek and were located in the 1860s. The Little Giant and W. A. Clark claims, located on Giant Hill in the northeast quarter of Section 2, were discovered in the late 1860s and later worked in the 1870s and 1880s. Two other groups of claims -- the Diamond Hill group in Section 36 and the Blacksmith group in Section 1 just west of the the townsite of Hassel -- were located as early as the 1860s and 1870s, but the Diamond Hill is primarily associated with the 1890s developments centering on the construction of a 120 stamp mill. In 1890 the Crow Creek district listed the Cyclone group -- Patsywa-tomie, Mineral Hill and Silverware -- as active. The Park district listed the Clipper, the Gold Dust, Switzerland, Uncle Ed, Silver Bell, Jaw Bone and Hard Cash as active. At that time the Dumphy 20-stamp mill, the Smith 20-stamp mill and the Emanuel 5-stamp mill were actively reducing the ore (McCormick 1990; Ferguson 1906; Swallow 1891). | |
| As with most mining districts, the Park / Hassel / Crow Creek mining district on the east side of the Elkhorn Mountains has been discussed both in combination with other districts or separately with several different boundaries. | |
| According to Stone (1911) the Park mines are located in Sections 15, 24 & 26 T7N, R1W, about five miles northeast of Hassel on Crow Creek. The Hassel mines, which he views as a separate entity, are described as "located 6 miles west of Townsend, on the Northern Pacific Railway, on Crow Creek in the northeast corner of T. 6N. R. 1 W". | |
| Corry (1933) makes no distinction between the Winston, Radersburg and Townsend districts, and discusses the common geological and historical development of the greater district. Pardee and Schrader (1933) define the district as an area on the east side of the Elkhorn Mountains between the Winston and Radersburg Districts. It is drained by Crow Creek and branches of Crow Creek and is reached by a road that goes west from Townsend. Reed includes the upper part of Crow Creek and Eagle Creek which covers the main lode claims (Figure 1). | |
| Small eddy basins on either side of the rockyprojections into the stream bed should carry placer gold and are worth careful prospecting ( Corry 1933). | |
| Production from Park (Crow Creek District) from 1908 to 1957 more than 20,130 oz. of gold (Schell 1963). At gold price of $1700/oz. that works out to $34,221,000 today. | |
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