Elkhorn is the name of two places in the U.S. state of Montana: State nickname: Treasure State Official languages English Capital Helena Largest city Billings Governor Brian Schweitzer (D) Senators Max Baucus (D) Conrad Burns (R) Area - Total - % water Ranked 4th 381,156 km² 1 Population - Total (2000) - Density Ranked 44th 902,195 2. ...
Elkhorn, Beaverhead County, Montana
Elkhorn, Jefferson County, Montana
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Dating from the second wave of Montana's gold and silver rushes, Elkhorn has survived as one of the better ghost towns in the west.
Elkhorn has been designated one of the most important historical sites in the West and renovation has been undertaken by the Western Montana Ghost Town Preservation Society.
Elkhorn flourished in the 1880's and 90's, when millions of dollars worth of gold and silver were mined.
The Elkhorn mining district is located in the Pioneer Mountains northwest of Comet Mountain at the headwaters and on the divide of Wise River and Grasshopper Creek.
The geology of the Elkhorn district is taken primarily from Winchell (1914:168-159) who describes the country rock of the Elkhorn district as a porphrytic quartz monzonite with euhedral plagioclase, quartz, biotite, horneblende, magnetite, apatite, and pyrite.
The Elkhorn mine project is significant as an example of one of the few large-scale silver mining projects in Montana during the early part of the twentieth century.
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