Nuggets to Neutrinos: The Homestake Story HIS026020 ISBN13: 9780310812210

ISBN13: 9780310812210

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Haynes Johnson captures the drama and tragedy of an era nurtured by greed and a morality that found virtue in not getting caught

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Nuggets to Neutrinos: The Homestake Story HIS026020 ISBN13: 9780310812210Very few mines in the world ever produced gold continuously for more than one hundred years. The Homestake Mine was one that did, producing 40 million ounces of gold from 1876 through 2001, when the quest for the yellow metal was brought to an end for good. Over the next few years after the mine was shut down, tens of thousands of ounces in additional gold were recovered as mine facilities were systematically decommissioned, and the mill site was