Spearfish Forest Products

Category: Business

Occupying over 100 acres between W. Oliver Ave and Hillsview Dr, the Homestake Gold Mine sawmill produced beams for its Lead, SD mine which was one of the largest in the western hemisphere. The sawmill was later sold to Pope & Talbot and was purchased in 2008 by the Neiman family. See CEO Jim Neiman's paper- with Bill Carlson- on combined heat and power from sawmill waste (woody biomass): http://smallwoodnews.com/Forum/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=804&highlight=neiman
and Bill Carlson's paper on "Biomass Combined Heat & Power (CHP)": http://www.sustainablenorthwest.org/community-biomass-workshop/BC_CHP.pdf

November 7, 2008 radio interview of Jim D. Neiman: http://www.livewithjay.com/?p=262

A more ambitious proposal is given at: http://base.google.com/base/a/2767210/D11358670063228754609

Jim D. Neiman's June 3, 2009 testimony before the U.S. House Subcommittee On Department Operations, Oversight, Nutrition, And Forestry: http://agriculture.house.gov/testimony/111/h060309/Neiman.pdf