black hills

While out gold panning I found this weird shell like fossil? It feels like shell material. Slightly brittle on the thin edges. It was lying in the dry creek bed. Maybe someone here can identify it.

I found a spot recently that look like it is worth sampling. Two days later I return with my gear and find a barricade in the road. The Black Hills is the most unfriendly national forest I have ever explored. All they care about is collecting money from the cattle industry and the logging...

Burnt Ranch Lost Treasure in South Dakota I found an article from the July 1, 2014 issue of South Dakota Magazine. It talks about the soldier that murdered a miner and buried his gold. I know where Sheridan is and approximately where Burnt Ranch is. What I have not heard about before is "O...

I've been googling the crap out of rockhounding sites around South Dakota, but have been having trouble finding sites that aren't so "remote". I'll be driving out west in a Mini-Van in a few weeks, so I'm hesitant to visit sites that require traversing miles and miles of unpaved dirt road. I...

The Black Hills of South Dakota have their own version of the Lost Cabin mine; this one was seen by Kit Carson and has been found several times, found by hunters or hikers, but every time they have been unable to find it on returning. The cabin was intact except for the roof according to...