Sanford Lab Homestake Visitor Center

Touring the Sanford Lab Homestake Visitor Center

Great trip. We arrived at approximately 10:30 am and made our way inside the visitor center. Admission into the visitor center was free, which is always a plus. We did pay a small additional fee to ho...

Science

An unexpected surprise to learn about both history and science. Situated on an open pit mine, the view is spectacular.learn about history and science all in one place

Interesting Repurpose

We found the information here to be very helpful in learning the history of the mine and the town. The part we didn't expect was how they are now using the old mine shafts for scientic studies. The h...

Deep mine scenery

Wish we could have gotten here a little sooner when the visitors center was open, so we could see deeper into the mine. But we could see some of it about halfway down and it was quite impressive.

Another Rich Mans cast off

Many facts never made it into the mine history. Number of workers, number of those killed, actual amount the owners earned, or the quality of work conditions. They alluded to the facts of the mine d...