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onstrator Experiment. That's aimed to search for a rare form of radioactive decay, which could help physicists understand how the universe evolved.
• Experiments are set to begin this year, Harlan said. All told, the site has cost more than $300 million -- a mix of private donations and state and federal funding. Among the contributors: a $10 million Housing and Urban Development grant, $40 million from the South Dakota Legislature and $70 million from philanthropist T. Denny Sanford.
• About 70 former mine workers now work for the lab. Greg King, a lifelong Lead resident, is one of them.
• "The whole town was built up around the Homestake," King said. "As the property closed and people left, a lot of employees left. Now, there's a lot of excitement

in town. People are very thrilled that the Homestake is once again, albeit not as a mine."
• Liz Tiger, who owns a consignment store on Main Street, said the resurrection of the mine represents hope for Lead, a town of about 3,100 residents about a half-hour from the Wyoming border. Three generations of Tiger's family worked for the mining company.
• "The economy up here really died after Homestake shut down," she said. "It was absolutely dev

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