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From the Landstrom's Website:

Landstrom's is the oldest Black Hills Gold manufacturing company and is the only true heir to the original Black Hills Gold designs, tools, and manufacturing methods made over 100 years ago.

The distinctive grape and leaf design in three colors of gold make Black Hills Gold a unique American art form.  In an age of robotic manufacturing, each piece of Landstrom's Black Hills Gold continues to be handcrafted by our highly skilled and talented artisans.

According to legend, a French goldsmith named Henri LeBeau became lost during the "gold rush days" of the middle 1870s in the Black Hills of South Dakota. He fell asleep believing he was dying of thirst and starvation. During a dream, he saw a mountain stream with grapevines growing on its banks.

Upon awakening, he walked over a rise and found the stream and grapevines just as he had in his dream and, out of gratitude, dedicated his life and talents to creating jewelry in the shapes of grape clusters and leaves fashioned in rose, green and yellow gold.

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Ring that my father had a hand in "designing" (he has no metalsmithing knowledge, I figure he just threw out "eagle on branch")

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The Homestake Mine was a deep underground gold mine (8,000 feet or 2,438 m) located in Lead, South Dakota. Until it closed in 2002 it was the largest and deepest gold mine in North America. The mine produced more than forty million troy ounces (43,900,000 oz; 1,240,000 kg) of gold during its lifetime. It provided most of the gold used in the Black Hills Gold industry.

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Original designs influenced by the architecture for storing and processing ore on the homestake mine. While not used in this project, I am interested in the rose gold and green gold of Black Hills Gold alongside black stones and textures like Onyx.

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Scannable Document on Mar 12, 2023 at 1_31_17 PM

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Scannable Document 2 on Mar 12, 2023 at 1_31_17 PM

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Evolved into a more general mineshaft (or tube) design which would be constructed by scoring and folding a tube. The Kuembu would be on the interior surface of the tube, requiring one to look inside to verify its presence.

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Idea became progressively simplified as the week progressed due to time. Also, having never scored and folded on sheet before, I was unaware of how time consuming it is.

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Scannable Document 3 on Mar 12, 2023 at 1_31_17 PM

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Scannable Document on Mar 12, 2023 at 2_16_12 PM

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Page 2 of the pdf above includes a technical explanation for my eventual choice to kumbu the outside rather than inside.

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In finishing or continuing on this project idea, I would consider creating green and rose gold alloys to incorporate the aesthetic of Black Hills gold. I would also consider putting something inside of or near the entrance to the mineshaft to encourage interaction.