Browns Gulch Placer Metal/Non-Metal
Great Rocky Mountain Mining Corp
· Surface
Controlled by
Hamilton Rex & Kenneth
Madison County,
MT
·
Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 2401558
Browns Gulch Placer has no reportable incidents on file with MSHA.
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- Fatalities
- 0
- Total incidents
- 0
- Years on record
- —
- Latest incident
- —
Ownership history
- 3 T Corp 1980 to 1982
- Montana Minerals 1982 to 1987
- Brown'S Gulch Mining Inc 1987 to 1993
- Great Rocky Mountain Mining Corp 1993 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
| Year | Employees |
|---|---|
| 1995 | 4 |
| 1994 | 2 |
| 1993 | 2 |
| 1988 | 20 |
| 1987 | 16 |
| 1985 | 2 |
| 1984 | 4 |
| 1983 | 3 |
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly; years before 2000 come from MSHA's archived Part 50 employment files.
Browns Gulch Placer sits in Madison County, Montana, where the Census mining category is 2.4% of county employment.
Local economic context
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County figures come from the US Census Bureau's American Community Survey, 5-year pooled estimates, so the 2023 vintage covers 2019 through 2023. The Census category is 'mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction', which is broader than MSHA jurisdiction and includes oil and gas workers no mine employs. These figures describe the surrounding county, not this mine, and are not a factor in any specific incident.Madison County, Montana · Population 8,975
2.4%
Mining share of county employment
$67,420
Median household income
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2023 5-year estimates.
No reportable incidents on file.
MSHA has no recorded reportable accidents for this mine in the current dataset. New reports appear here within a week of being filed.