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The Homestake MineLead, SD

The Homestake Mine

George Hearst's Homestake mine pit. This is an enormous hole in the ground. It yeilded over 40 million ounces of gold until it was shut in 2002. it is now being used by the national science foundation to study neutrinos and dark matter using it's incredible depth to get far from background radiation.

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