Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A sign identifies the Homestake Mining Co. Hydro Electric Plant No.2, built in 1917, in Spearfish Canyon. (Photo courtesy of the ...

Water flows over Spearfish Falls Thursday afternoon in Spearfish Canyon. This area is at the center of a lawsuit brought by a family that owns a cabin nearby against defendants including Homestake ...

A drilling rig operates northwest of Lead as part of a Dakota Gold exploratory drilling project in January 2023. (Seth Tupper/South Dakota Searchlight) A South Dakota company earned the state’s ...

At the bottom of the Homestake Mine in South Dakota, ca. 2001. At the time, this gold mine was the deepest in the Western hemisphere and thus one of the deepest places to sample for underground ...