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  2. Homestake Mine (South Dakota) - Wikipedia

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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]

  3. Lead, South Dakota - Wikipedia

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    By 1910, Lead had a population of 8,382, making it the second largest town in South Dakota. [10] Lead was founded as a company town by the Homestake Mining Company, which ran the nearby Homestake Mine. Phoebe Hearst, wife of George Hearst, one of the principals, was instrumental in making Lead more livable. She established the Hearst Free ...

  4. Homestake Mining Company - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. Sanford Underground Research Facility - Wikipedia

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    The Sanford Underground Research Facility (SURF), or Sanford Lab, is an underground laboratory in Lead, South Dakota. The deepest underground laboratory in the United States, it houses multiple experiments in areas such as dark matter and neutrino physics research, biology, geology and engineering. There are currently 28 active research ...

  6. Black Hills and Fort Pierre Railroad - Wikipedia

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    The Black Hills and Fort Pierre Railroad (BH&FP) was a 3 ft (914 mm) narrow gauge [1] railroad in the Black Hills of the U.S. state of South Dakota.It was created by the Homestake Mining Company and initially ran from Lead to Calcite and Piedmont by way of Elk Creek.

  7. Dakota Territory Resource Corp - Wikipedia

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    Homestake Gold Mine 1877. Dakota Territory Resource Corp, a Reno, Nevada corporation, is a publicly traded gold development company owning land in the historic Homestake District of the northern Black Hills of South Dakota, an area that once produced the second largest amount of gold in U.S. history.

  8. Kosovars Who Rebuilt War-Torn Village Face New Threat As ...

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    In Kosovo, a state-owned energy company plans to destroy a village to make way for expanded coal mining as the government and the World Bank plan for a proposed coal-burning power plant. The government has already forced roughly 1,000 residents from their homes. Many former residents claim officials violated World Bank policy requiring borrowers to restore their living conditions at equal or ...

  9. Terraville, South Dakota - Wikipedia

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    Terraville is a ghost town in Lawrence County, South Dakota, United States. It was founded in 1877 as a mining camp and later evolved into a town. It was purchased by the Homestake Mining Company and was destroyed in 1982 to make way for a new mine. [2]