Spearfish Gold Mining Project

"The Deadwood Standard Project, a South Dakota-based mining company, has applied for a conditional use permit to extract gold from shallow mineral deposits on the high limestone plateau six miles west of Lead. This will be a new type of gold project, smaller in scope than Black Hills mining operations of recent decades."

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