Federal program would support Montana Mining Association's Rare Earth and Critical Minerals Extraction Demonstration project ...

A 2010 emergency action plan, a safety precaution produced by Montana Resources, shows that if an extraordinary event did occur and caused a breach in the dam and water flowed out, it would travel in ...

Butte, Mont. • There’s a tale told about a miner who found copper cans in his garbage dump in the early days of mining. Wastewater from copper mining had flowed through his land, he said, and turned ...

Atlantic Richfield/BP announced this summer that the company has narrowed its focus to two possible locations in Butte to receive contaminated wastes from Superfund-related sites in the Silver Bow ...

Atlantic Richfield/BP and officials with the Montana Resources mine in Butte continue discussions about how the Berkeley Pit and a site off Shields Avenue could serve as repositories for Superfund ...

Atlantic Richfield/BP confirmed Saturday that wastes excavated from sites along Silver Bow Creek in Butte will require more than one place to land. “More than one repository location will be needed to ...

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, this ...

BUTTE, Mont. (AP) — Necropsies found geese that died late last year after landing in the toxic waters of a former open pit copper mine in Montana had severe internal tissue damage that appeared to ...

In this file photo from March 2023, Caleb Uerling, a fisheries biologist for Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks, shares details of a fish tagging project along Silver Bow Creek with students from Ramsay ...