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One of the world’s largest gold mines, certainly the largest in America, Homestake has produced over one million kilos of gold, and continues to produce it at the rate of 18000 kg per year from workings well over 2000 m below surface.
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Darton, N. H. and Paige, S. (1925), Central Black Hills Folio- South Dakota. U.S. Geol. Surv. Folio No.219. [Beautifully presented atlas of maps with descriptions and illustrations of the regional setting.]
Paige, S. (1924), Geology of the Region Around Lead, South Dakota. U.S. Geol. Surv. Bull., 765. 58pp. [A more analytic work based on the same fieldwork as the Folio with many plans of the upper levels of the mine, and a thorough description of the Mineralography.]
Noble, J. A. and Harder, J. D. (1948), Stratigraphy and Metamorphism in a part of the Black Hills and the Homestake Mine, Lead, South Dakota. Bull. Geol. Soc. Am., 59, 941–76.
Noble, J. A., Harder, J. D. and Slaughter (1949), Structure of a Part of the Northern Black Hills and the Homestake Mine, Lead, South Dakota. Bull. Geol. Soc. Am., 60, 321–52. [A pair of papers containing a full description of the geology of the area.]
Hosted, J. O. and Wright, L. B. (1923), Geology of the Homestake Orebodies and the Lead Area of South Dakota. Part I: Eng. Min. Jr., 115, (18) 793–99; Part II: Eng. Min. J., 115, (19) 836–43.
McLaughlin, D. H. (I931), Homestake Mine — Ore Genesis and Structure. Eng. Min. World, 2, (10), 640–5. [Papers by mine geologists of the day, the last of which is one of a series of papers covering many aspects of the mine.]
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Dixon, C.J. (1979). The Homestake Gold Deposit — U.S.A.. In: Atlas of Economic Mineral Deposits. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-6511-2_34
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