It’s plain old good sense to be careful about with whom you share your personal and financial information. We want you to know that you can shop online at BlackHillsGoldSource.com with utmost confidence that you personal information is safe and secure. We have partnered with Authorize.Net, a leading payment gateway since 1996, to offer safe and secure credit card transactions for our customers. The company adheres to strict industry standards for payment processing, including state of the art encryption hardware and software.
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We respect your privacy and we will NEVER sell or distribute your personal information for ANY reason, or use it for any other purpose other than authorized by you, our valued customer. If you would still like to place your order over the telephone, just call us at 605-221-6120 Monday through Friday. Only buy Black Hills Gold from a name you can trust.
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BlackHillsGoldSource offers a complete selection of Landstroms Black Hills Gold jewelry, but we’ll also work with customers who have special needs for custom items such as mounting an heirloom stone on a Black Hills Gold wedding ring, or creating a matching earring from an existing pendant design. However, every request for custom work must first be submitted to Landstroms for their Custom Order Department to review. If Landstroms feels they can do the work without compromising the quality of the original design, then they will respond with an estimate of the cost, typically within a few days. Read more…
You bet they do! Each piece of Landstroms Black Hills Gold jewelry comes with Landstroms Lifetime Warranty against defects in materials and workmanship. Of course, physical abuse or prolonged normal wear are not covered. For complete warranty details and instructions, please visit this link: Landstroms Warranty.
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This is one of the most common questions we hear, and a very important one at that! All Landstroms Original Black Hills Gold Creations bear the following manufacturer’s marking:

And all Landstroms vermeil jewelry is stamped with the following:
STER+12K
Other registered trademarks from component companies in the Landstrom’s family include:
BH GOLD JCO
BLACK HILLS GOLD JCO
and the original F.L. Thorpe brand jewelry is marked with:

These trademarks go back to before Ivan Landstrom consolidated the various Black Hills Gold companies which are now Landstroms. Some resellers claim to include a “Landstroms Certificate Of Authenticity” with each piece. Be wary of companies making such claims because the only things that Landstroms includes with your original Landstroms Black Hills Gold jewelry is the distinctive, white Landstroms box and the following informative fold-out:
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(rear)

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Mt. Rushmore in The Black Hills
If you’re ever in Rapid City, you must take the Landstroms factory tour at their Rapid City factory in the Black Hills. Then you’ll see why Landstroms is a little more expensive than the other Black Hills Gold jewelry out there. You’ll be amazed to see that everything is done by hand by skilled artisans. And if you compare apples to apples, you’ll agree that Landstroms Black Hills jewelry has more gold, more detail, more articulation, more beauty and more hand-made quality than any other Black Hills Gold jewelry out there. In fact, if you consider the actual weight of the gold in each piece, then by weight Landstrom’s is actually cheaper than Black Hills Gold jewelry made by others. To learn more, visit our previous blog post about Landstroms Clink & Clunk Test.
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