New Underground Lab Tabbed for South Dakota Gold Mine
According to an Environmental News Network release, South Dakota will be the new site for an underground lab designed to conduct experiments and increase the understanding of the universe’s composition, its beginning and its future.
“South Dakota won the project, called the Deep Underground Science and Engineering Laboratory, over three other states — Colorado, Minnesota and Washington. The National Science Foundation said the lab, located at Lead, S.D., in the northern Black Hills, would be the largest and deepest facility of its kind in the world if it is built as currently envisioned.”
While most of the information that will be covered in the lab is probably over the head of the casual environmentalist, the new facility should generate $300 million in federal funding for South Dakota while also finding a use for the closed Homestake Gold Mine. No date was given for when the facility will open.
