LEAD - Former Homestake employees have first chance at getting their hands on the last bits of the 125-year-long stream of Homestake gold.

LEAD - The Homestake Mine has opened the sale of its final-issue commemorative gold coin to the general public.

Gold mining in South Dakota's Black Hills evolved from pick and shovel work to industrial-scale operations. This film shows how miners drilled into rock and moved ore through the Homestake ...

Homestake itself was a Western legend. It got its start in 1876 when two prospectors found gold in the Black Hills of South Dakota -- the original Homestake mine.

Homestake shares up 20%; merger set to create the world's No. 2 producer NEW YORK (CNNfn) - Barrick Gold Corp. agreed to buy U.S. gold mining rival Homestake Mining Co. in a $2.3 billion stock ...

Film and video shot in 1936, 1954, and the 1990s through 2002 shows changes in gold recovery methods at Homestake. The process once involved stamp mills and mercury amalgamation.

TORONTO (CBS.MW) -- Barrick Gold said Monday that it plans to buy Homestake Mining in a $2.3 billion stock-for-stock deal that will create the world's second-largest gold producer.

Maitland, Dakota's other Homestake property, promises to rival what years ago was an important gold deposit in the western part of the original Homestake mine.

Homestake Mining Co., the nation's second-largest gold producer, said it will take a one-time $43-million charge in the third quarter to close its oldest mine.

Dakota Gold's 2024 Maitland drill program has delineated four distinct ledges, each of which has yielded high-grade Homestake Mine-style gold intercepts analogous to the gold mineralization found ...