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HISTORIC NEWSPAPER REPORTS OF COARSE GOLD WIRE GOLD NUGGETS AND MASSES OF GOLD AND SILVER, CUSTER AND LAWRENCE COUNTIES SOUTH DAKOTA HARD ROCK MINES

Custer county, Grand Junction mine, 3 miles N Custer, ore shows free gold, much coarse.  
Custer county, Grand Junction mine: 43.8483 -103.6726
Custer county, Carr mine, 8 miles SW Custer, Charles Carr, Nugget gulch, visible gold. 1899
Custer county, Minnie May mine, Mr. Carr's mine, Lightning creek.
Custer county, May mine, Lightening creek, free gold to 60,000$/ton.
Custer county, Custer mine, 3 oz chunk gold. 1890
Custer county, Mayflower mine, white quartz with visible free gold.
Custer county, Salmon mine, 3 miles NE Custer, Laughing Water, specimen wire gold. 1902
Custer county, Gold Bank mine, Mineral hill, 1,000oz/ton gold visible with microscope. 1890
Lawrence county, Big Missouri and Homestake mine, ore glistens with free gold.
Lawrence county, Big Missouri mine, Deadwood, ore glistens with free gold. 1890
Lawrence county, Rattlesnake Jack mine, Galena, assays 2,000$/ton gold, specimen rock.  
Lawrence county, Carbonate mine, 1,500 feet north east Yankee Boy shaft, shows free gold in  
                profusion similar to Durango and Reddy mines near Carbonate mine.
Lawrence county, Durango mine, Garden city, N Gold Run, shot like gold, scattered great  
                quantities of native gold in sharp and branching forms.
Lawrence county, Uncle Sam property, Garden city, free gold 10,000$/ton. 1897
Lawrence county, Iowa Brunette lodes, cement ores showing free gold.
Lawrence county, Hidden Fortune mine, head of Bobtail gulch, scales and crystals of native gold,  
                coarse and fine gold, 6,000$/ton.
Lawrence county, Grantz or Hidden Fortune mine, near Poorman gulch, solid gold 1/2 inch thick,  
                nuggets, ore 80 percent gold.  
Lawrence county, Reddy mine, Lead, 60,000$/ton gold. 1896
Lawrence county, Northwest and Aspen groups, rich free gold.
Lawrence county, Sitting Bull mine, 600 oz/ton gold. 1881
Lawrence county, Lackawana lode, Green mountain, ore glistens with flake gold. 1895
Lawrence county, Roubaix or Cloverleaf mine, S side Elk creek, Perry station, 8 miles SE Deadwood,  
                gold is relatively coarse and free, masses up to 1/4 inch.
Lawrence county, Clover Leaf mine, Perry, specimen ore coarse gold. 1904
Lawrence county, Roubaix or Cloverleaf mine: AREA 44.2727 -103.6640
Lawrence county, Baltimore, Deadwood, Esmeralda, and Hidden treasure mines, between  
                Deadwood and Bobtail gulches, large gold nuggets, shot gold.
Lawrence county, Ben Hur mine, Nevada gulch, Bald mountain, assays 700$/ton. 1898
Lawrence county, Trojan mine, Bald mountain, native silver. 1880
Lawrence county, Monarch mine, small nuggets. 1888
Lawrence county, Cora mine, by Washington mine, native silver. 1880
Lawrence county, Minerva and Deadbroke mines, N Bobtail gulch, large nuggets, shot gold.
Lawrence county, Whale lode, Lead city, specimens guarded 500$/ton gold.

PENNINGTON COUNTY ABOUT 40 REPORTS OF COARSE GOLD

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