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has gloss | eng: The Homestake Mine is a deep underground gold mine located near Lead, South Dakota. Until it closed in 2002 it was the largest and deepest gold mine in North America, producing more than $1 billion in gold. The Homestake Mine is famous in scientific circles for being the site at which the solar neutrino problem was first discovered. This became known as the Homestake Experiment. The deep underground laboratory was set up by Raymond Davis Jr. in the mid 1960s to become the first experiment to observe solar neutrinos. |
lexicalization | eng: Homestake Mine |
instance of | (noun) mountains in southwestern South Dakota and northeastern Wyoming; sacred to the Sioux (whites settling in the Black Hills led to the Battle of Little Bighorn); site of Mount Rushmore Black Hills |
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has gloss | nld: De Homestake Mine was een goudmijn nabij Lead, South Dakota. De mijn ligt vier kilometer buiten Deadwood en speelt een belangrijke rol in de geschiedenis van die bij de goudkoorts ontstane plaats. |
lexicalization | nld: Homestake Mine |
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geo loc | geographic location 44.3561 -103.7647 |
media:img | Homestake Mine Pit.jpg |
media:img | Homestake works mine 1889.jpg |
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