Two of the most notorious Black Hills gold nuggets rotated under bright lights and curious eyes on Sunday afternoon.

The “Ice Box nugget” spurred interest in the museum’s already planned Family Fun Day, teaching children about gold history in the Black Hills.

Multiple gold nuggets and gold pieces in bedrock discovered in first few days of maiden exploration programme at Black Hills Greatland Gold plc (AIM: GGP), the precious and base metals exploration ...

Gold fever was contagious and hordes of prospectors poured into the Black Hills in 1875. Along with the miners came gamblers, gun-slingers, goldsmiths, dance hall girls and women of the night.

The waters flowing from South Dakota's Black Hills have been sacred to the Lakota people for uncounted generations. After decades of resistance to mining interests, tribal nations and their allies ...

Other nuggets of comparable and larger sizes were found during the Black Hills gold rush in the late 1800s but did not remain in one piece, Johnson said.

Today, the former Homestake Gold Mine, a 300-mile (480-kilometer) tunnel system carved inside the mountains, houses the Sanford Underground Research Facility, where scientists study particle ...

THE BLACK HILLS.; PROF. WINCHELL DOES NOT BELIEVE THERE IS ANY GOLD THERE. Share full article Sept. 14, 1874 The New York Times Archives ...

Three years after the discovery of gold nuggets on Lakota land in 1874, the Black Hills Act stripped the tribe of most of the acreage in the Dakotas and northwestern Nebraska it had been ceded by ...