The deepest underground laboratory in the United States just finished an overhaul of a wooden mine shaft that transports personnel and supplies nearly a mile underground.
Join photographers from around the world to document the excitement of Neutrino Day, a select number will go behind the scenes at the Sanford Underground Research Facility (SURF)—one of the world’s leading underground science labs.
The Price of Gold: Stories from the Homestake Gold Mine is a coffee table book with film portraits of and short stories from those who once worked at the Homestake Gold Mine before it transformed into America’s Underground Lab.
Dan James, a 25-year employee of the former Homestake Mining Company who was instrumental in establishing SURF, has retired after spending more than four decades on the site.
Courtney Justice, a third-grade teacher at Rapid Valley Elementary School in Rapid City, is planting seeds of possibility in her classroom—one science experiment at a time.