Gold Panning in the Black Hills

Gold Mines

Tour some of the underground gold mines and experience the gold boom days of the Black Hills. Don't forget to pan for some gold of your own... will you strike it rich?

Big Thunder Gold Mine

1-800-314-3917

604 Blair Street
Keystone, South Dakota 57751

Pan for gold! Gem panning! Experience the Hills' most complete mining experience from the 1890's. Tours lead you underground.Receive a free sample of gold ore. Visit the mining museum. 2 gift shops. Recipient Great Star Service Award.

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Broken Boot Gold Mine

1-605-578-1876

Upper Main St
Deadwood, South Dakota 57732

Underground tours of an authentic old gold mine where miners pursued gold ore veins with black powder and candlelight. Tours every 30 minutes. Pan for gold.

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Homestake Gold Mine Visitor Center

605-584-3110

160 West Main
Lead, South Dakota 57754

Take a guided surface tour of the largest gold mine in the Western Hemisphere and see the original 1876 location of the world's richest gold vein. Pan for gold.

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Thunderhead Underground Falls

1-605-343-0081

info@thunderheadfalls.com

Rapid City, South Dakota 57702

Thunderhead Underground Falls is located ten miles west of Rapid City on Hwy 44. Spectacular vertical waterfall 600 feet inside a mountain. Located inside the oldest gold mine in the Black Hills area that is open to the public. Open May-Oct.

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