Mark Thompson, vice president of Environmental Affairs for Montana Resources in Butte, readily acknowledged ... in treating water pumped from the Berkeley Pit. But Thompson said the volume of ...

Surface waters that drain this area contain heavy metal contaminated mineral nanoparticles. Such environmental nanoparticles contribute to the transport of these metals up to 500 km downstream.

Gardner was manager of operations for Atlantic Richfield at its Butte mine when the pumps in the Berkeley Pit were turned off ... the mine,” Peoples told The Montana Standard last week.

2025 BUTTE — The trout returned to Silver Bow Creek but no one said life would be easy. The territory served by Caleb Uerling, a fisheries biologist for Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks ...

People in Butte can be deeply suspicious; they are used to a commerce of take and no give. The company extracted all it could from this place and then left a mess behind. So much has been taken from ...

The town of Anaconda, Montana, doesn't have the most ... It wasn't as hard-hit — environmentally — as neighbor Butte (home to the unfortunate Berkeley Pit, a highly toxic superfund site ...