Badger Pass (Pioneer Mountains)

6755 ft.) is a high mountain pass in Beaverhead County, Montana.

[5] A "miniature gold rush" took place in the 1930s, with the discovery of an unusual sandstone formation on both sides of Badger Pass Road which turned out to contain gold, and was valued "as high as $42 a ton.

It was claimed during the 1932 gold rush by Hurly Leach and D. V. Erwin.

The mine was developed by an inclined shaft at least 110 feet deep into a silicified replacement body in Jefferson Dolomite.

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