Sundance — Crook County

Source: Tom Ashworth's Prospectors Cache (tomashworth.com / Mike Higbee / 49erMike). Author: Tom Ashworth. Original page: crook_wy.shtml. State index: https://web.archive.org/web/20040830075749/http://www.tomashworth.com/goldloc.shtml Area: Sundance. Map coordinates are an approximate county centroid — not a precise claim site. Northwest of Sundance 8 miles, in the Bear Lodge Mountains is the Copper Prince Mine. On dumps at this mine you can find native gold and scattered small particles with malachite and chrysocolla. In section 17~20 T52N R63W is the Hutchins Consolidated Gold Mining Company Mines. The Nigger Hill placers were small but heavily worked. At the Nigger Hill placers you will find abundant nuggets and grains of gold often attached to fragments of glassy quartz, with great quantities of tourmaline, cassiterite and small red garnets. In the area of Warren Peaks, .5 miles northeast of the central peaks, a gold bearing ledge extends for several hundred yards in a northwest - southeast direction. Here you will find some gold traces.