Mining historian Kerby Jackson introduces us to a classic mining work in this important re-issue of "Papers Read Before The Black Hills Mining Men's Association At Their Regularly Monthly Meeting On The Mining and Metallurgy of the Black Hills Ores." Unavailable since 1904, this publication offers rare insights into the famous bLack Hills mining region of South Dakota. Topics include Mining and Milling Methods of the Black Hills, South Dakota Gold Production, Some Features of the Mining Operations in the Homestake Mine at Lead, South Dakota, The Metallurgy of the Ore in the Homestake Mine, Cyanidation of Black Hills Ores, Wet Crushing of Ores in Solution, Cyaniding Practices at the Maitland Mine, Pyrite Ores and Their Smelting, Matte Smelting, Mining in the Bald Mountain and Ruby Districts of the Black Hills of South Dakota and more. Lavishly illustrated with rare historical photographs. Note: This edition is a perfect facsimile of the original edition and is not set in a modern typeface. As such, some type characters and images might suffer from slight imperfections or minor shadows in the page background.

Rising out of the prairie, the Black Hills of South Dakota and Wyoming had long been rumored to have promising quantities of gold. Sacred to the Lakota, the Black Hills was part of the land reserved for them in the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868. However, the tide of prospectors seeking their fortune in the Black Hills was difficult to stem. Members of the 1874 Custer expedition, lead by Gen. George Armstrong Custer, found gold. In 1875, scientists Henry Newton and Walter Jenney conducted an expedition and confirmed the rumors. By 1876, the trickle of prospectors and settlers coming to the Black Hills was a flood. The US government realized that keeping the interlopers out was impossible, and in 1877 the Black Hills was officially opened to settlement. In this sequel to their Black Hills Gold Rush Towns book, the authors expand their coverage of Black Hills towns during the gold-rush era.