Discovered July 6, 2010, the Ice Box nugget weighs 5.27 troy ounces with 3.96 ounces of actual gold content, making it the Black Hills largest undisputed gold nugget.

Black Hills gold mining ban protects land, water, Sioux Nation church. Buffalo’s Fire. Thu, January 16, 2025 at 12:00 AM UTC. 5 min read. Tracy L. Barnett Contributor to Buffalo's Fire.

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 ...