Small towns built around a single industry run the risk of having to reinvent themselves if the employer closes up shop. That's what happened in the small South Dakota city of Lead. Nestled in the ...

TORONTO (AP) – Barrick Gold Corp. is acquiring Homestake Mining Co. for $2.3 billion in an all-stock deal that will create the world’s second-largest gold producer. ”This strategic merger combines the ...

Homestake Mining Co., a Bay Area institution with a rich history but stripped of some of its luster by the precipitous fall of gold prices beginning in 1997, is being acquired by Barrick Gold Corp. of ...

Lead, South Dakota--(Newsfile Corp. - December 3, 2024) - Dakota Gold Corp. (DC) ("Dakota Gold" or the "Company") is pleased to announce that step-out drilling north of the JB Gold Zone has nearly ...

Canadian gold miner Barrick Gold Corp. agreed to buy rival Homestake Mining Co. for about $2.2 billion in stock Monday to gain mines in Australia and the Americas where it can shave costs. Barrick ...

WASHINGTON — The National Science Foundation has selected South Dakota’s Homestake Mine as the best site for a possible deep underground physics laboratory, the director of the foundation’s physics ...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has chosen Homestake, a former gold mine in the Black Hills, near Lead, South Dakota, as the site for a multipurpose deep underground science and engineering ...

LEAD, S.D. (AP) — Listen long enough as winds comb through the boughs of towering pines and you’ll hear the century-old whispers of steam-fired trains chugging through the forest to service the fabled ...

A Canadian mining company has a lofty goal for its exploration plans in the Keystone Mining District: Homestake Mine. “With good sound exploration techniques, we think we may be able to discover ...