Mine site picked for physics lab
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From Times Wire Reports
The National Science Foundation chose South Dakota’s closed Homestake Gold Mine as the site for a new underground physics lab to study the history and makeup of the universe.
South Dakota won the project, called the Deep Underground Science and Engineering Laboratory, over Colorado, Minnesota and Washington state. The science foundation said the lab, planned in Lead, S.D., would be the largest and deepest facility of its kind in the world if built as envisioned.
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