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Homestake Mine, Lead District, Lawrence Co., South Dakota, USA

Latitude: 44°21'N
Longitude: 103°45'W

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A recently closed major gold mine. Original claim was filed April, 1876. Owned by the Homestake Mining Co. and achieved a depth of at least 2,300 meters. Produced 1.7 million tons of ore in 1984 (9,200 kg Au). Closed in 2002.

The Homestake Mine is famous in scientific circles for being the site at which the solar neutrino problem was first discovered.

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USA

South Dakota
- Lawrence Co.
  - Lead District
    - Homestake Mine
      - 6350 Level

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References

Palache, Charles, Harry Berman & Clifford Frondel (1944), The System of Mineralogy of James Dwight Dana and Edward Salisbury Dana Yale University 1837-1892. John Wiley and Sons, Inc., New York. 7th edition, revised and enlarged, Volume I, 834pp.:92.

Mining Annual Review (1985):326.

Rocks & Minerals (1985): 60:111.

Rocks & Minerals (2000): 75(3):156-169.

Ryan Morelli, Chris Bell, Robert Creaser, Antonio Simonetti (2010): Constraints on the genesis of gold mineralization at the Homestake Gold Deposit, Black Hills, South Dakota from rhenium–osmium sulfide geochronology. Mineralium Deposita 45, 461-480.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homestake_Mine_%28South_Dakota%29

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