Big Thunder Gold Mine

General information

We are a family ran and owned business.We specailize in great customer service and being very personable with our customers trying to make them feel like they are just on of our relatives coming for a visit.Big Thunder Gold Mine is a origanal 1880's gold mine located right below Mt. Rushmore.Some of the things that we feature at our gold mine are the mine tour which intails history about the mine and the surrounding area and thengoing into the museum which is a repilca of the tycoon mill and seeing how they would process the gold after it was taking out of the mines with all origanal equipment from the 1800's.we also have gold panning available and we do give you demos for thegold panning and you are garenteed to find gold and we will stay with you until then, and answer any question you may have for us!!!Just starting this season we are doing full and half days of panning, we take you down to our claim and you get to pan for gold in the creek and dig for it as well!!!