The Berkeley Pit in Butte, Montana, has been a source of environmental concern for decades, as its waters—highly acidic and ...

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At the Berkeley Pit, researchers hope to extract valuable metals to increase U.S. production of rare earths used in electric ...

Discover the haunting story behind the Berkeley Pit in Butte, Montana—a former open-pit copper mine that has turned into one ...

The Berkeley Pit is a former open-pit copper mine in Butte, Montana—and one of the few places in the world where you can pay to see toxic waste. If you choose to pay the $2 admission to enter ...

The proposed underground Black Butte copper mine near White Sulphur Springs, Montana, would extract 440 tons of ore daily and generate 12.9 million tons of tailings from an 1,800-acre mine near the ...

Cold, rapid and icy blue, the Clark Fork is Montana’s largest river ... found in chicks nesting farther downstream from Butte’s copper mines, and vice-versa. “We actually double-checked ...

A delegation of county leaders and community members from Ireland stopped in Butte on Wednesday, exploring the town's Irish heritage and tracing roots back to ancestors who immigrated during the ...

A delegation from the Beare Peninsula that consisted of more than 50 people stopped in Butte to connect with both communities close ties.

Image Butte was home to a copper mining boom a century ago that brought ... Hollywood has been a tax credit for film productions that Montana began offering in 2019. A worker distributed ...

Stalled work on a major copper mine proposed in central Montana can proceed after the ... ruling that effectively blocked work on the Black Butte mine north of White Sulphur Springs by revoking ...