Scratchgravel District

Scratchgravel District is a past producer of silver, gold, lead, copper in Lewis and Clark County, Montana, in USGS's medium output class. USGS gives a discovery year of 1864. It is one of 255 historic gold producers USGS lists in Lewis and Clark County, and number 7 when they are sorted by output class.

Facts

USGS status
Past producer
Output class
medium (USGS class)
Commodities
Silver, Gold, Lead, Copper, Zinc, Iron, Arsenic, Vanadium
Discovered
1864
County
Lewis and Clark County
State
Montana
Land status (BLM data)
Federal land managed by the Bureau of Land Management
USGS record
60000361

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.

This location is mapped as federal land. Public land is not an invitation to enter old workings. Ask the managing agency about access, claims and closures.

Gold sites nearby

94 other USGS gold sites within 12 miles. The Lewis and Clark County page lists the biggest.