Bear Creek Placers

Bear Creek Placers is a past producer of gold, silver in Granite County, Montana, in USGS's medium output class. USGS records production from 1865. It is one of 192 historic gold producers USGS lists in Granite County, and number 4 when they are sorted by output class.

Facts

USGS status
Past producer
Output class
medium (USGS class)
Commodities
Gold, Silver
Workings
Surface
Production years
from 1865
Discovered
1865
County
Granite County
State
Montana
Land status (BLM data)
Private land or land not mapped as public
USGS record
10099713

Source: USGS Mineral Resources Data System (retrieved 2026-10-13). The database was last updated around 2011, positions can be approximate, and "producer" does not mean a mine is operating today. "Output class" is a code whose meaning changed over the years, so compare sites inside this data and do not read it as tonnage.

Land status comes from the BLM Surface Management Agency dataset and can be out of date. Check ownership before you go near any mine site.