Homestake Gold Mine

…1877, by which time the Homestake Mine had become the largest gold mine in the United States.

…with the closing of the Homestake Gold Mine (opened 1876), which was the world’s oldest continuously operating gold mine until it closed in 2001; chemist Raymond Davis received the 2002 Nobel Prize for Physics for his work in detecting neutrinos in a laboratory in the mine. Tourism, based primarily on…