Philipsburg is a town in and the county seat of Granite County, Montana, United States. The population was 841 at the 2020 census. The town was named after the famous mining engineer Philip Deidesheimer, who designed and supervised the construction of the ore smelter around which the town originally formed. Philipsburg is situated 2½ miles west of Fraction Mine.

Fraction Mine

Categories: mine and industry
Location: Granite, Montana, Rocky Mountains, United States, North America
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Latitude

46.31965° or 46° 19′ 11″ north

Longitude

-113.24617° or 113° 14′ 46″ west

Elevation

6,821 feet (2,079 metres)

Open location code

85R88Q93+VG

OpenStreetMap ID

node 369143577

OpenStreetMap feature

landuse=quarry

GeoNames ID

5653156

Wikidata ID

Q49412585

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In Other Languages

“Fraction Mine” goes by many names.

Cebuano: “Fraction Mine (minahan sa Estados Unidos, Montana, Granite County)”
Cebuano: “Fraction Mine”

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