Yee-Haw! Thanks to Abandonware, I found the old game, "Lost Dutchman Mine" I used to love playing it on my old Atari, to the point of looking around and realizing it was 0100.
I had completely forgotten the actual name of the game after all these years, but was directed to Abandonware via a story I was reading (already knew about the site and have had Wing Commander loaded in DOSbox for a while) and ran into the game while browsing. The title smacked me in the face and I am now spending a rainy morning happily playing away. :)
Except for I just now heard the funeral dirge that indicates I died while typing this because I put the game in the background and forgot to pause it. Dangit. Now I'm off to fish and pan for gold so I can eat and afford to buy another pistol and some tools to go mining.
Oh yeah, link in case anyone is interested:
http://www.myabandonware.com/game/lost-dutchman-mine-p0#download