Butte is ugly, the pamphlets and websites said.Ugly from the days of metal mining, from the reign of Montana’s Copper Kings. Lead-stained ground, air-blown arsenic, metals in the soil.

Discover the haunting story behind the Berkeley Pit in Butte, Montana—a former open-pit copper mine that has turned into one of the most toxic lakes in America. This video dives into the history ...

The Berkeley Pit in Butte, Montana is so acidic it has the potential to fry birds inside out in a matter of hours. Locals, such as Mark Mariano, use a variety of methods to scare them away.

Now home to 35,000, Butte is most famous for its biggest scar: the mile-long crater on the east side of town known as the Berkeley Pit, or just “the pit,” a former open-pit copper mine almost ...

An Old Mining Town in Montana Finds New Gold in Film . ... The Berkeley Pit, a mile-wide hole in Butte, where copper used to be mined, currently holds 50 billion gallons of contaminated water.