One man’s trash is another man’s gold. Case in point: Owen Voight and Paul Antonioli, independent miners who scratch less-than-meatball-sized amounts of gold out of piles of dirt on Montana ...

The Bozeman Trail was a shortcut to the newly discovered gold fields of Montana Territory.

Still gold in them thar hills I decided to have a look for myself, and soon I was sloshing into a flooded tunnel with engineer Ben Porterfield. “How deep does it get?” I asked.

It was home to one of the great mother-lode gold and silver fortunes of the West, the Drumlummon Mine. Then it petered out — familiar story — to near ghost-town status through the long decades ...

Montana Gold Mines Conclusion Montana, although a resource-rich region, is not a top gold producing state and doesn't appear to be on its way to becoming one anytime soon.

GIANT GOLD NUGGETS FROM A MONTANA GULCH.; Three Reported Found, the Biggest Weighing Forty-two Pounds, and Worth $10,000.

The real-estate firm Fay Ranches, more known for its luxury recreational properties in western Montana, advertised the “Zortman Landusky Gold Resource Property.” ...