If you choose to pay the $2 admission to enter the viewing platform, you'll see a one-mile-long, half-mile-wide, 1780-foot-deep hole. Operating as a mine from 1955 to 1982, the pit is now filled ...

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 ...

BUTTE, Mont. - The Berkeley Pit is just 68 feet away from reaching what managers call a critical water level. It's no surprise Butte residents are worried. "The water level is getting more and ...

Discover the haunting story behind the Berkeley Pit in Butte, Montana—a former open-pit copper mine that has turned into one of the most toxic lakes in America. This video dives into the history ...

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 Life around the Pit: There's more than ...

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BUTTE - Several thousand migrating snow geese perished in the toxic Berkeley Pit water where they landed last week, mine officials said Tuesday.

BUTTE — Atlantic Richfield says the company has begun construction on a water treatment plant for the Berkeley Pit in Butte. The plan calls for the acidic, metal laden water filling the former ...

The Berkeley Pit in Butte, Montana, has been a source of environmental concern for decades, as its waters—highly acidic and teeming with toxins—have seeped into the surrounding area. But today ...

BUTTE — Fifteen years ago, as state researchers ventured into the Berkeley Pit to collect their annual samples from the contaminated water, a surprise greeted them.

Butte’s Berkeley Pit is as poisonous as battery acid. An entire flock of snow geese mistakenly landed on its surface in 1995 and died before they could take flight. But for one lonely matted ...

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 — ...