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Without the pumps running, toxic groundwater began filling the mile-wide hole. Within months, what had been Montana’s pride became America’s most dangerous lake. Here’s the story, and how you can ...
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.
The Yankee Doodle Tailings storage pond above Butte sequesters tailings from both the Berkeley Pit and the Continental Pit. Montana Resources wants to raise the elevation of the pond’s rockfill dam ...
Butte-Silver Bow's government is celebrating Pride Month, but this year, it’s a little less colorful.
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.
An open pit mine in Kirovohrad, Ukraine. Ukraine has many of the minerals critical for America’s economic development and defense, the U.S. Geological Survey said. Efrem Lukatsky/Associated Press ...
Since 2019, Montana Resources, in partnership with the Atlantic-Richfield Co., has pumped 9 billion gallons of treated Berkeley Pit water into Silver Bow Creek.
Fruit production & manufacturing is making a comeback in Montana. Tune in to learn more.