Mining Incidents

French Creek Mine: 1 reportable incident Metal/Non-Metal

Pacific Gold Mine Inc · Underground
Beaverhead County, MT  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 2401934

MSHA record for French Creek Mine (mine ID 2401934). Fatalities, non-fatal incidents grouped by year, current operator and controller, and mine context.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
1
Years on record
1990
Latest incident
Dec 1990
Ownership history
  1. Pacific Gold Mine Inc 1990 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.

French Creek Mine sits in Beaverhead County, Montana, where the Census mining category is 2.7% of county employment.

Local economic context
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.
Beaverhead County, Montana · Population 9,590
2.7%
Mining share of county employment
$58,072
Median household income
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2023 5-year estimates.
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

1 on file

1990 · 1 incident