Lead, South Dakota
Former gold-mining town in the Black Hills, South Dakota.
At a glance
| Source | Author | Role | In one line |
|---|---|---|---|
| Why America is Hollowing Out a Mountain | The B1M | setting | The narrator introduces Lead as a town that owes its existence to the Homestake gold mine. |
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Why America is Hollowing Out a Mountain — The B1M (2025)
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Welcome to Lead, South Dakota.
- Role: setting
- In the video: The narrator introduces Lead as a town that owes its existence to the Homestake gold mine. The 90-year-old headframe is a distinctive historic landmark of the town, so it had to be reinforced from the inside to keep its exterior unchanged. The mine closed in 2002 and now hosts the far detector.
- Why it matters: It is the town and former mining community whose abandoned mine is repurposed as the destination end of the 1,300 km DUNE neutrino beam.