Synopsis
History of South Dakota and mining at the Homestake mines.
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Details
- Running time
- 32 minutes
- Collection
- Prelinger Archives
- Internet Archive item
- 0178_South_Dakota_Saga_21_25_35_00
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★★ · There's gold deeeeeeeep in dar hills! · Spuzz · 2017-06-08
Not bad detailing of how the Homestake mining corperation gets gold out of their mine. BUT FIRST! We see images of General Custer.. why, I am not sure. We then are shown the history of gold discovery in the state yadayada, finally, the film gets started, and the film tells me something I didn't believe at first, but yes, the miners go 4000 feet below ground level to grind ore out! Wow! Neat. Anyways, an EXCELLENT overview is shown of how ore is drilled and brought up to surface. You may think this would have been boring (including me) but really, this was too fascinating! Anyways, the rock…