Reclaiming Hard Rock Mines Montana State University
the Bullion Mine, just one of 20,000 inactive mines in Montana (Durkin and Herrmann 1994). Located on the eastern slope of the Continental Divide, nine miles north of Basin, Montana, the hard rock Bullion Mine produced gold, silver, lead, zinc, and copper through the 1950''s (Nimick 1999). The abandoned Bullion Mine contained an