Anaconda Copper Mining Co. No.7, a Willamette steam locomotive, is undergoing restoration at the Historical Museum at Fort Missoula in Missoula, Montana on Sept. 16, 2023.

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 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 ...

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.

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.

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 ...

Feds caution Montana against softer mine laws “It’s like the bad old days under the Anaconda Company,” said Shiloh Hernandez, senior attorney for Earthjustice’s Northern Rockies Office in ...