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.

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.

How miners drilled, blasted, and removed ore from what was once the deepest mine on earth. Gold mining in South Dakota's Black Hills evolved from pick and shovel work to industrial-scale operations.

The old Homestake Gold Mine in Lead, 45 miles northwest of Rapid City, would extend to a proposed 7,400 feet underground, roughly 600 feet deeper than a Canadian lab that is now the world’s deepest.

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.

Proponents of the lab in the 8,000-foot-deep Homestake mine hoped the National Science Foundation’s site selection would keep the mine’s owner, Barrick Gold Corp. of Toronto, from flooding the ...

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 ...

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 ...

-- For twenty-four hours the Homestake Mining Company has been fighting fire near the 500-foot level, with so far no appreciable gain, and in a few hours 200 men were carried out of the mine ...

LEAD, S.D., Sept. 11 -- Homestake Mining Co. said Monday it will close its Lead, S.D., operation within 16 months because of low gold prices. The company said the mine has had a negative cash flow ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- Homestake Mining Co. said it would close its namesake, 124-year-old gold mine near Lead, S.D., by the end of next year, because of low gold prices, poor ore quality and high costs ...