Lead, S.D.
The National Science Foundation (NSF) is planning to construct the Deep Underground Science and Engineering Laboratory (DUSEL) in Lead, S.D. Providing research space 8,000 feet underground, the laboratory will be located in the former Homestake gold mine. Construction will begin in 2012. In the interim, the South Dakota Science and Technology Authority is constructing the Sanford Underground Laboratory in the Homestake shaft at a depth of 4,850 feet. The Sanford lab will initiate its first physics experiments beginning in late 2008.
