Details on the old Homestake gold mine, the site picked for the National Science Foundation’s Deep Underground Science and Engineering Laboratory: The old Homestake Gold Mine in Lead, 45 miles ...

Underground pumps at the Homestake Mine in Lead will be turned off next week, allowing the 8,000-foot deep mine to begin filling with water. "The pumping will stop," said Vince Borg, a spokesman ...

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.

When the Homestake Mining Company decided to shut down its money-losing gold mine in the Black Hills of South Dakota two years ago, the firm thought it had found a perfect way out. The California ...

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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 ...

LEAD, S.D. (AP) — Listen long enough as winds comb through the boughs of towering pines and you'll hear the century-old whispers of steam-fired trains chugging through the forest to ...

Joshua Welsh of South Dakota Public Broadcasting reports that the National Science Foundation has selected South Dakota's Homestake Mine as the best site for a deep underground physics laboratory.

LEAD, S.D. (AP) - Excavation has begun for the first physics experiments at the Sanford Underground Science and Engineering Laboratory at Homestake. The blasting work at the former gold mine ...