Residents and government leaders in the small western South Dakota city of Piedmont are in shock that the state approved a limestone mining operation without notifying them in advance about the ...

Members of the Piedmont Board of Trustees will wait to make any decisions that could affect a limestone mine near city limits ...

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The limestone mine swallowed their kayaks whole, rising a hundred feet above them like a cathedral built to collapse. The moment they paddled inside, the ceiling began breaking apart—huge sheets of ...

PIEDMONT, S.D. (South Dakota News Watch) – Three lawmakers who represent a Meade County city hope to change weak state mining laws that allowed a proposed limestone mine to be sited without ...