Davis excavation
By late last week, a Sanford Underground Lab crew had removed 13,000 tons of rock to enlarge the Davis Cavern and create the new Transition Cavern in a campus 4,850 feet underground. The crew of 11,...
View ArticleCreating a searchable core
Homestake Mining Co. extracted nearly 7 million feet of solid-rock core samples during decades of exploration for gold. Crews used diamond-bit drills to extract the slender, cylindrical rock cores,...
View Article99-foot bridge for pipeline set in Kirk Gulch
Sanford lab and Homestake Mining Co. Cooperate on water treatment LEAD, S.D. -- A crane operator placed a 99-foot concrete bridge across Kirk Gulch on Wednesday morning. The narrow bridge will support...
View ArticleDiverse group ready for underground science
by Leah Hesla, Symmetry Magazine Physicists may soon be burying their dark matter detectors and other fun toys far beneath the South Dakota hills, but they won’t be the only ones who get to play in...
View ArticleLUX labor of love
The Large Underground Xenon Detector, or LUX, will be tested over the next few months in the surface lab, where problems are easier to fix. Later in 2011, LUX will be disassembled and transported...
View ArticleLab moving closer to science 4,850 feet deep
Engineers and scientists at the Sanford Underground Laboratory have taken three major steps toward creating a research campus 4,850 feet below the surface of the earth, where some of the greatest...
View ArticleSouth Dakota Gov. Dennis Daugaard on DUSEL
Column by South Dakota Gov. Dennis Daugaard May 4, 2011 The Sanford Underground Laboratory at Homestake holds great promise for education, technology and research in South Dakota. While the path to...
View ArticleScience rocks in Lead, July 7-9!
The annual celebration of science in Lead, South Dakota, takes the leap from outer space to the deep underground from July 7 to 9. Events include a South Dakota Public Broadcasting Science Café on July...
View ArticleSouth Dakota media visit 4850 Level
There was an unusual scene on the 4850 Level on Friday morning, June 17, as reporters and photographers from South Dakota news outlets simultaneously conducted half a dozen different interviews of...
View ArticleUndeground Experiments of ‘Paramount Importance’
Press release from the National Academies WASHINGTON — Proceeding with three physics experiments planned for the Deep Underground Science and Engineering Laboratory (DUSEL) would provide an...
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