Shutterstock Berkeley Pit, Montana On April 22, 1982, workers shut off the pumps at Butte’s Berkeley Pit for the last time.

For author Nicholas Triolo, everything is circular — even the house where he lives in Missoula, Montana.

Researchers discovered a way to extract rare earth materials from the Berkeley Pit, a toxic abandoned mine in Butte, Montana.

A report by The New York Times revealed that efforts to extract these precious materials from a closed mining operation called the Berkeley Pit in Butte, Montana, may help increase ... with 50 billion ...

The lineup has been released for Butte’s popular Music on Main summer music series.

A toxic pit could be a gold mine for rare earth elements The global scramble for metals critical to manufacturing and technology advances has caused demand to soar.

The Mountain Pass mine produced a majority of the world’s rare earths from 1965 until 1995, when China began flooding the global market with all manner of low-cost exports.

Fruit production & manufacturing is making a comeback in Montana. Tune in to learn more.

Oppenheimer said highly toxic wastewater and byproduct material from cyanide leaching has been known to attract animals like birds, referencing Montana’s deadly Berkeley Pit mine in Butte.