In this photo provided by SURF, Marty Two Bulls Jr., a Lakota artist, burns sage in a stove to cleanse the sacred land at the entrance of a shaft in the Sanford Underground Research Facility, a ...

A mining company released an initial assessment this week that outlines the potential for an open-pit gold mine northwest of ...

RAPID CITY, S.D. (KOTA) - A bill that would add regulations for lithium mines in the Black Hills has been stopped in Pierre. House Bill 1258 would put lithium mining under the same requirements as ...

Today, the former Homestake Gold Mine, a 300-mile (480-kilometer) tunnel system carved inside the mountains, houses the Sanford Underground Research Facility, where scientists study particle ...