RAPID CITY - Physicists who inspected Homestake Gold Mine in Lead on Wednesday say the mine's depth is its biggest asset in the competition for the new National Underground Laboratory.

The National Science Foundation has selected South Dakota's Homestake Mine as the best site for a possible deep underground physics laboratory, the director of the foundation's physics division said.

The National Science Foundation has selected South Dakota's Homestake Mine as the best site for a possible deep underground physics laboratory, the director of the foundation's physics division ...

In a surprise move, the site selection panel for what would be the nation’s first underground science laboratory has given the nod to the former Homestake gold mine in Lead, S.D. Proponents of ...

Homestake closed in 2003, but in 2007 the South Dakota Science and Technology Authority began reopening the mine for a range of experiments that require shielding from cosmic radiation. Sanford Lab ...

LEAD - The pumps that keep water from filling up the 8,000-foot-deep Homestake Mine in Lead would need to be replaced before a science lab could be built at the site, a Barrick Gold Corp. official ...

The Sanford Underground Research Facility is in the process of partnering with the Fermilab in ... of groundbreaking research that occurred in the lab while it was still the Homestake Mine.

Homestake stopped active mining operations at Lead in 2002. Part of the mine was donated in 2006 and now serves as the Sanford Underground Research Facility , managed by the South Dakota Science ...