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LEAD, S.D. – Gold production was up and silver production was way up last year at South Dakota’s only active large-scale gold mine, according to new numbers reviewed Thursday by […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. The U.S. economy has remained remarkably steady despite an unrelenting series of shocks over the last three years. America’s economic resilience was again on display throughout 2023, as […]
SPEARFISH, S.D. – A federal agency has provisionally approved a company’s plan to conduct exploratory drilling for gold above Spearfish Canyon. The company is Colorado-based Solitario Resources. Project maps show […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The EPA removed the term “significant nexus” from the waters of the U.S. (WOTUS) rule in a final revision announced by the agency Tuesday after the Supreme […]
HILL CITY, S.D. – After being turned away from a previous location near Mt. Rushmore National Monument, a company looking for lithium in the Black Hills is planning another drilling […]
PIERRE, S.D. — South Dakota’s one active gold mine is getting bigger – and so will the amounts of environmental insurance the site must have. The state Board of Minerals […]
BISMARCK, N.D. — Geologists in North Dakota are starting to learn more about the recent discovery of rare earth minerals in the southwestern part of the state. Crews are finding […]
PIERRE, S.D. – A state board won’t make a final decision on the proposed expansion of South Dakota’s lone large-scale gold mine for another two months, after the board listened […]
BUFFALO, S.D. – Take abandoned gas wells in Harding County on land owned by South Dakota (as well as on private property) that have cost county and state taxpayers millions […]
EDGEMONT, SD – After years of arguing from opposite sides of a mining debate, Mark Hollenbeck and Susan Henderson are about to learn what their friends and neighbors think. Voters […]
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