Decades of copper smelting activity at the town of Anaconda polluted the soils in yards, commercial and industrial areas, pastures and open spaces throughout the 300-square-mile Anaconda Site.

The huge, lavish Montana Hotel in Anaconda, 120 feet square, was designed by Butte architect D. F. McDevitt, assisted by W.W. Boyington of Chicago. Library of Congress ...

With a change in just more than 900 votes out of more than 52,000 cast in 1894, Anaconda would today be the capital of Montana, and home to all the state jobs that come with the title.

The Anaconda Mine is the largest in the territory, employing 400 men. It was reopened about a week and a half earlier after a long period of idleness.

BUTTE, Montana, October 3, 2022 (ENS) – The Atlantic Richfield Company, ARCO, has agreed to spend $131 million complete its cleanup of the Anaconda Smelter Superfund Site in Deer Lodge County ...

MISSOULA, Mont. — A University of Montana Ph.D. student set out to study superfund cleanup in Anaconda, and her conversations with residents often turned to the smelter stack in town.

ANACONDA — Ray Schmitz is not trying to kid anyone; to renovate the historic Montana Hotel in Anaconda would take an incredible amount of time, money and support.

Atlantic Richfield Co., which bought the Anaconda Co., shut down the Butte mines in 1982. Butte and a stretch of the Clark Fork River, where the mining waste washed downstream, were designated a ...