Knife River, a subsidiary of utilities and construction conglomerate MDU Resources, which in 2018 bought Sioux Falls-based concrete/gravel/asphalt producer Sweetman Construction Company, which operated as…
Tag: mining
An eager reader notices that yet another Canadian energy company is angling to exploit South Dakota’s natural resources. Vancouver-based Pegasus Resources has bought 147 lode mining…
Dang—our most off-topic commenter is right: Powertech/Azarga still wants to slurp up our water to squirt uranium out of the Black Hills. After receiving Underground…
The Lawrence County Commission shows some good sense and again votes down a proposal to mine the rim of Spearfish Canyon for gold. In a…
The Lawrence County Planning and Zoning Board unanimously recommended last week that the county not permit Deadwood Standard Project/Valentine Mining Ccompany LLC to blast for…
The Valentine Mining Company still wants to dig for gold just over the rim of Spearfish Canyon. Eight years after first seeking approval for its…
The great escape of the spring comes from Albert Reitz and his lawnmower, which barely outran the Great Black Hawk Sinkhole: Albert Reitz was mowing…
On October 30, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s Atomic Safety and Licensing Board holds an evidentiary hearing in Crawford, Nebraska, to hear the Oglala Sioux Tribe’s argument…
Dakota Rural Action is surveying Legislative candidates on their plans for water quality, Keystone XL, clean energy, initiative and referendum, and chemical drfit impacts on…
Well, at least the Trump Administration doesn’t want to wreck Yellowstone. The U.S. Forest Service is recommending a twenty-year moratorium on new mining claims on…