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410 000 Tons of Granite and Four 18 M Faces: at Mount Rushmore, What the Dynamite Ripped Off the Mountain Never Left the Foot of the Cliff

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When the workers left the mountain on October 31, 1941, the monument was finished. But what had to be pulled from the rock to draw these faces never moved, fourteen years after the first blow of dynamite.
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When the workers left the mountain on October 31, 1941, the monument was finished. But what had to be pulled from the rock to draw these faces never moved, fourteen years after the first blow of dynamite.

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SciencePost broke the news on Saturday, October 31, 2026.
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