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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;coppermania, post: 1172210, member: 18304&quot;]Lead is 40 miles from my home and it is a really cool and special place. At one time Lead was the largest city in South Dakota. In 1876 gold was discovered and soon after Hearst from the Comstock brought his wealth and knowledge and consolidated all the claims in the deadwood area and created the Homestake gold mine. Homestake ran from 1876 until 2002 or so and mined over 400 million oz of gold, making it the largest gold mine in North America. An ore tax was created during the depression and the mine single handedly kept the state afloat during that time. Today they use a lab at the 5000 ft level to study nutrinos. You can google map the open pit from satellite. Anyway, imagine hundreds of businesses operating in the last hundred and forty years that no longer exist. Killer mining history and worth studying. </p><p><br /></p><p>If it is gold, that&#039;s great if not it is the lettering Black Hills and Lead that make it good not the business, IMO. Value? anyones guess, but I&#039;m thinking people from here would pay 50 to 80 bucks for it at local auction.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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