The Berkeley Pit in Butte is seen in this panoramic image shot in September 2023. Its contaminated waters could become a dumping ground for Superfund wastes excavated from sites in the Silver Bow ...

The Berkeley Pit remains high on the list of candidates for an approved repository for contaminated wastes from sites in the Silver Bow Creek Corridor in Butte. The more controversial Kelley Mine ...

HELENA, Mont. — Butte’s Berkeley Pit is infamously known for its toxicity, but it’s also the site of vital minerals and rare earth elements. During a presentation to Montana’s ...

BUTTE, Mont. — In Butte, prospects of the Berkeley Pit being used to contain hundreds of thousands of cubic yards of mine waste are gaining momentum.

A Montana legislative committee unanimously voted Wednesday to petition the U.S. Congress to support efforts to pull rare earth elements from the Berkeley Pit in Butte.

BUTTE — The area surrounding the Berkeley Pit — a man-made lake of toxic water in Butte that would likely kill a human or animal that drank from it — is teeming with life. From foxes and ...

Caleb Uerling, a fisheries biologist for Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks, believes the high conductivity of treated Berkeley Pit water discharged into Silver Bow Creek could affect trout.

Butte-Silver Bow Chamber of Commerce Director Marko Lucich poses on the chamber-run viewing platform overlooking the Berkeley Pit, one of America's largest bodies of toxic water, in Butte, Mont ...

Montana Tech professor John Ray has been outspoken with his concerns about the Berkeley Pit for years. In February, Ray sent an email to the EPA with questions concerning the slides and structural ...

Montana artist Nolan Salix channeled his anger over 3,000 to 4,000 snow geese dying in the Berkeley Pit last December into an artwork on scrap copper pieces. The 4-foot by 8-foot painting will be ...

BUTTE — The snow geese die-off in the Berkeley Pit late last year inspired Montana artist Nolan Salix to create a painting he hopes will encourage an in-depth look at all that happened. Two ...

By JOHN GRANT EMEIGH Montana Standard Mar 11, 2013 Mar 11, 2013Updated Mar 11, 2013 0 ...