The Broken Boot Gold Mine is the Black Hills best underground tour. Step into history and dig into the past! Daily tours and panning lessons.
The Homestake mine in the northern Black Hills, South Dakota, is the largest iron-formation-hosted gold deposit known. The deposit was discovered in 1876, and the mine has operated continuously to the present day. Ore is currently mined from depths as great as 2,438 meters. Gold is the ...
South Dakota - Agriculture, Mining, Tourism: The economy of South Dakota is based mainly on agricultural production, but tourism, forestry, and mining have increased in importance. The state has also benefited from the presence of federal installations—
(1876), the high point of which was theBattle of the Little Bighorn. Despite that Native American victory, the U.S. government was able to force the Sioux to relinquish their treaty rights to the Black Hills in 1877, by which time theHomestake Minehad become the largest gold mine in ...
2000 –November 7 – Voters narrowly approve a bet-limit hike for casinos in Deadwood, from $5 to $100. 2001 –The Homestake announced that it would be closing the Homestake Gold Mine in Lead, South Dakota in December 2001. © Kathy Weiser-Alexander/Legends of America, updated July 2021...
Travel South DakotaSturgis Motorcycle Rally - Feel the rumble of hundreds of thousands of Harley's in early August as the largest motorcycle rally in the world takes place in the Black Hills. bodnarchuk/ThinkStockPan For Gold - Once the world's largest gold mine before it closed, Homestake ...
The Best Steak in South Dakota? Google MapsVoted Restaurant of the Year, The Alpine Inn has been a gold mine attraction in the Black Hills since the days of the Harney Peak Hotel of 1886. Family-owned & operated for over three decades on Main Street where people from all over the world...
The status of a recalled dessert item sold at Hy-Vee stores in Minnesota, Iowa, and South Dakota, and five other states has now been designated by U.S. Food and Drug Administration as a Class I health risk, which is the agency's most severe hazard warning. ...
Deadwood, South Dakota, was once one of the liveliest mining camps in the country after gold deposits were found, which led to the Black Hills Gold Rush. Unlike other popular mining camps, Deadwood never died when the gold played out. Today, it continues to be the Lawrence County seat and...
While government ministers travel in luxury, the South African Air Force (SAAF) still transports troops in 70-year-old Dakota aircraft. One of these, a Dakota C47TP (an upgraded DC-3 with turbine engines) crashed last December, claiming 11 lives when it was unable to fly above inclement ...