Geoscience Research at the Homestake Deep Underground Science and
Engineering Laboratory (HDUSEL), Lead, South Dakota
Letters of Interest Submitted to the SDSTA:
March 3, 2006
Economic Geology and Petrology
Precambrian Mineralization
 Controls on World-Class Homestake-type Gold Mineralization: Stratigraphic and
Structural Reinterpretation and Geochemical Investigations in Selected Areas of
the Homestake Mine, Lead, South Dakota: Colin J. Paterson, Alvis L. Lisenbee,
Edward F. Duke, James E. Fox, Nuri Uzunlar (SDSM&T), Kelli McCormick (SD
Geological Survey)
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Role of Iron Formations in the Making of Giant Gold Deposits: Homestake Mine,
Lead, South Dakota: Nuri Uzunlar, Colin J. Paterson, Edward F. Duke, Alvis L.
Lisenbee (SDSM&T)
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Partitioning of CO2, H2O, gold and trace metals between synformal and
antiformal fold hinges: Diane Wolfgram, Christopher H. Gammons and Colleen
Elliott (Montana Tech)
Tertiary Mineralization
 Breccia evolution associated with degassing of Tertiary veins and dikes at
Homestake: Alvis Lisenbee, Nuri Uzunlar, (SDSM&T); Scott Cooper, (Sandia
National Lab )
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Crustal assimilation and volatile evolution in rhyolite and phonolite dikes:
isotopic and geochemical variations along 8000-ft exposure: Genet Duke, Alvis
Lisenbee (SDSM&T), Scott Cooper (Sandia National Lab), Carol D. Frost (U.
Wyoming)
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Thermal History of Homestake Mine, Lead, South Dakota: Nuri Uzunlar, Alvis L.
Lisenbee, Colin J. Paterson, Edward F. Duke (SDSM&T), Shari Kelley (New
Mexico State University)
Hydrothermal / Hydrologic Processes
 Coupled Process Experiment Collaboration: Eric Sonnenthal (Lawrence Berkeley
Lab)
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Geochemical Evolution of Fluids in the Homestake Hydrologic System: Mark
Conrad (Lawrence Berkeley Lab)
Geological Database
 An Internet-Accessible 3D Database for Homestake: Maribeth Price (SDSM&T),
Mary Kopco (Homestake Adams Research Center), and Derric Iles (SD Geol.
Survey)
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Development of a Geological 3D model of the Homestake Mine: Dean Peterson
(U Minnesota-Duluth)