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Buckeye Mine Jefferson City, Missouri Location:    Jefferson City 59638 406-563-3357 This web page has had 1941 unique visitors. BigSkyMontana.us BigSkyMontana.us Description: Placer Gold Discoveries following the Galconda Creek and the Prickly Pear Creek brought several prospectors to the Buckeye Mine area. Lode mines drew more miners to the hills, as a result the Buckeye was mined intensively. Activity died during the first part of the 20th century. In 1939 the Winston Brothers Company of Minneapolis obtained a lease on many acres of the placer ground near the Prickly Pear Creek. Thirty men were hired to operate the machinery. This new interest brought Buckeye back to life. On Golconda Creek near the mine are the remains of an old Spanish Arrastra, a crude mill for grinding gold ore, used by the mine’s first owners. This is an area where present day prospectors may be found. "