South Dakota chosen for underground lab
| July 11, 2007 |  View for printing |
The National Science Foundation on Tuesday chose South Dakota’s closed Homestake Gold Mine as the site for a new underground physics lab to study the history and makeup of the universe.
South Dakota won the project, called the Deep Underground Science and Engineering Laboratory, over three other states — Colorado, Minnesota and Washington. The NSF said the lab, located at Lead, S.D., in the northern Black Hills, will be the largest and deepest facility of its kind in the world.
By Mary Clare Jalonick, Associated Press Writer
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Wyo may benefit from underground lab
By BRODIE FARQUHAR Star-Tribune correspondent
Wyoming may well benefit from and be involved in research at a new underground physics lab in South Dakota to study the history and makeup of the universe, a University of Wyoming official said.
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