Legal Tender Mine

Legal Tender Mine is a quarry in Town of Keystone, Pennington, South Dakota and has an elevation of 4,462 feet. Legal Tender Mine is situated nearby to Mount Rushmore, as well as near the locality Etta.

Type: Quarry
Description: mine in Pennington County, South Dakota, United States of America
Address: SD

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Mount Rushmore.

Mount Rushmore

Photo: ArthurTilton, CC BY-SA 3.0.

The Mount Rushmore National Memorial is a national memorial featuring a colossal sculpture carved into the granite face of Mount Rushmore in the Black Hills, about 2 mi southwest of Keystone, South Dakota, United States.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Keystone and Mount Rushmore National Memorial.

Keystone

Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY 2.0.

Keystone is a tiny town in the Black Hills of South Dakota, at the entrance to the popular Mount Rushmore National Memorial. It offers a full range of accommodations, but at the price of a "tourist trap" veneer.

Mount Rushmore National Memorial

Photo: ArthurTilton, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Mount Rushmore National Memorial is a United States national memorial in the Black Hills of west South Dakota. This national icon features the monumental faces of four former Presidents – George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Teddy Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln – blasted and carved from the white rock of a mountain.

Etta

Locality

Etta, also known as Etta Camp and Etta Mine, is a ghost town in Pennington County, South Dakota, United States. It was a successful mining town, known for its discovery of the largest spodumene crystal ever found. Etta is situated 1½ miles southeast of Legal Tender Mine.

Legal Tender Mine

Categories: mine and industry
Location: Town of Keystone, Pennington, South Dakota, Great Plains, United States, North America
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Latitude

43.89777° or 43° 53′ 52″ north

Longitude

-103.44408° or 103° 26′ 39″ west

Elevation

4,462 feet (1,360 metres)

Open location code

85MRVHX4+49

OpenStreetMap ID

node 368393604

OpenStreetMap feature

landuse=quarry

GeoNames ID

5766452

Wikidata ID

Q49425684

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In Other Languages

“Legal Tender Mine” goes by many names.

Cebuano: “Legal Tender Mine (minahan sa Estados Unidos, South Dakota)”
Cebuano: “Legal Tender Mine”

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