The group Apache Stronghold is vowing to carry on the fight against a massive copper mining project on land the Apaches hold ...

The building dates back to the turn of the 20th century and was created as an extension of the historic Thornton building ...

O Sullivan Shandon said Butte is viewed as the “other parish” of the Beara Peninsula because the Beara is where so many of ...

“He was instrumental in getting Denny Washington to buy the mine,” Peoples told The Montana ... at a copper mine in Iran, worked for Lornex in British Columbia, then returned to Butte in ...

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 ...

Meanwhile, scientists at the University of Texas at Austin have developed specialized membranes that can separate rare earths ...

“I am very excited to join the team at Domestic,” says Gordon Neal. “The increasing global demand for copper has been reflected in the rising price of the commodity. Add to this the current US ...

The U.S. is sitting on a rare earths goldmine — not buried underground, but suspended in toxic wastewater. A long-polluted site in Butte, Montana, could soon become a strategic national asset as the ...

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

Companies with upcoming copper mines in the US could be poised to benefit from tailwinds in the sector, including supply deficits and the Trump administration's promises to cut "red tape" for ...

visits Butte; Idaho's Silver Valley, barely outside Montana; Salt Lake City, Utah; and British Columbia to see the effects that large, open-pit copper mines have had in other places. Dune and ...