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The Homestake Mine was a deep underground gold mine (8,000 feet or 2,438 m) located in Lead, South Dakota. Until it closed in 2002 it was the largest and deepest gold mine in the Western Hemisphere . The mine produced more than forty million troy ounces (43,900,000 oz; 1,240,000 kg) of gold during its lifetime. [1]
On April 9, 1876 Moses and Fred Manuel established the Homestake Mine near Bobtail Gultch in South Dakota in the Black Hills. [1]George Hearst (father of William Randolph Hearst), Lloyd Tevis, and his brother-in-law James Ben Ali Haggin bought the 10-acre Homestake Mine from its discoverer, Moses Manuel, for $70,000, and incorporated the Homestake Mining Company on November 5, 1877.
The Pogo mine is a gold mine in the state of Alaska. [2] By 31 December 2017 Pogo had produced 3.6 million ounces of gold at a grade of 13.6 g/t. Annual production for 2020 was 205,878 ounces. [1] At 31 December 2019 the mine had Proven and Probable Reserves of 1.5 million ounces of gold at a grade of 7.5 g/t . [3]
South Dakota Dept. of Transportation Bridge No. 47-215-363: December 9, 1993 (#93001303) December 15, 1999: SD 34 over the Belle Fourche R. Sturgis vicinity: 2:
November 19, 1998 (North of U.S. Routes 14/83 over the Missouri River: Pierre: part of the Historic Railroads of South Dakota Multiple Property Submission (MPS) : 10: Crawford-Pettyjohn House
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Tinton is a ghost town in the Black Hills of Lawrence County, South Dakota, United States. Founded in 1876, it started out as a gold mining camp and later began to produce tin. It had a heavy decline in the early 20th century due to the decline in the mining industry, and the town was fully abandoned by the 1950s. [3]
Galena is located in the northern Black Hills in Lawrence County, South Dakota. It has an elevation of 4,790 feet (1,460 m). [ 1 ] Bear Butte Creek runs beside the town, which is located in a meadow in the middle of a gulch .