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Mining

1930s Gold Mining – The Homestake Mine

Today we’re going to take a look at historical gold mining methods using archival footage from the late 1930s. This brilliant educational film gives us a glimpse into the operations at the Homestake Mine in South Dakota over eighty years ago, showing us their methods of reaching, extracting, raising, and processing the ore. The Homestake Mine was once the deepest…