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In 1876, settlers Fred and Moses Manuel, Alex Engh, and Hank Harney discovered the Homestake deposit during the Black Hills Gold Rush. The Black Hills had been guaranteed to the Lakota Nation by the Fort Laramie Treaty, but the land was stolen for its gold. [4] A trio of mining entrepreneurs, George Hearst, Lloyd Tevis, and James Ben Ali Haggin ...
The city was officially founded on July 10, 1876, after the discovery of gold.The city was named for the leads or lodes of the deposits of valuable ores. [9] It is the site of the Homestake Mine, the largest, deepest (8,240 feet [2,510 m]) and most productive gold mine in the Western Hemisphere before closing in January 2002.
Mystic is located in the Black Hills in Pennington County, South Dakota.It is on Castle Creek, about 20 miles (32 km) west of Rapid City and 12 miles (19 km) north of Hill City, at the intersection of Mystic Road/County Road 231 and George Frink Road.
That year, the mine began producing spodumene, a lithium ore, and became well known for its huge crystals. The largest spodumene crystal in the world was found in the mine. Until about 1900, Etta had the only post office in the Keystone area, and by that time, its population was 24. [3] In the 1920s, the mining operations flourished. [2]
Cordero Rojo Mine: Cloud Peak Energy [5] Surface Wyoming 16,393,569 Belle Ayr Mine: Foundation Coal [6] Surface Wyoming 15,826,344 Freedom Mine: North American Coal Corporation [7] Surface North Dakota: 14,716,777 Buckskin Mine: Kiewit Corporation [8] Surface Wyoming 14,517,853 Mc 1 Mine: M-Class Mining: Underground Illinois
This is a list of Superfund sites in South Dakota designated under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) environmental law. The CERCLA federal law of 1980 authorized the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to create a list of polluted locations requiring a long-term response to clean up hazardous material contaminations. [1]
Tinton is a ghost town in the Black Hills of Lawrence County, South Dakota, United States. Founded in 1876, it started out as a gold mining camp and later began to produce tin. It had a heavy decline in the early 20th century due to the decline in the mining industry, and the town was fully abandoned by the 1950s. [3]
Rochford is in the Black Hills just south of the border between Lawrence and Pennington counties; it is located in the latter. Its coordinates are 44°07′28″N 103°43′11″W / 44.1244280°N 103.7196408°W / 44.1244280; -103.7196408