Is there a good place to hunt for Fairburn agate in South Dakota?
I go to the Black Hills this summer and wondered whether adequate Fairburn agate hunting spots. I have been a couple of them listed on the Internet. These Agates were originally named after a fertile place 10 miles east of Fairburn, South Dakota, in the southern Black Hills. According to Roberts and Rapp (1965), Fairburn agates occur in a broad belt extending from Creston elliptical in Pennington County South Dakota, near Orella in Sioux County, Nebraska, with the maximum width of nearly 15 miles near Red Shirt, South Dakota. According to Fritzsch (SD School of Mines and Technology, personal communication, 1993), the area is more limited (Figure 1). The Fairburn agate fields cover thousands of acres of very rocky ground and is the most rugged terrain, well equipped with the cactus, weeds, and cedar trees (Zeitner, 1964).
