PRIORITY MINE SITES
The Priority Mine Sites List was compiled by locating, sampling, scoring and ranking over 300 mine and mill sites in the state starting in 1993. The sites were evaluated and ranked in order to facilitate the cleanup of the worst sites first.
Priority Mine Sites
- Toston Smelter
- Frohner Mine and Mill
- Buckeye Mine
- Spring Meadow Lake
- Draft Final Expanded Engineering Evaluation/Cost Analysis Document consists of: Chapter Sections 1 through 6
- Reclamation Investigation Report 347 K
- Sample Collection Location Map 1647 K
- Reclamation Investigation Data Tables 32 K
- Site Characterization Report for the Silver Creek Drainage Project
- Draft Final Expanded Engineering Evaluation/Cost Analysis for the McLaren Tailings Site, Cooke City, Montana Document consists of: Table of contents, Sections 1 thru 11, Appendices A thru H, and a Bibliography.
List of hardrock mine priority sites ranked based on the basis of human health and safety hazards applying the Abandoned Inactive Mine Scoring System (AIMSS). This list guides MWCB's reclamation efforts in a "worst first" approach. Also listed are sites that have been reclaimed by MWCB and other agencies.
