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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

As darkness fell on Nov. 28, 2016, residents of Butte, Montana, heard the unmistakable honking of some 60,000 snow geese circling the Berkeley Pit, a defunct mine now flooded with toxic water.

BUTTE -- The Berkeley Pit holds 45 billion gallons of water. The Yankee Doodle Tailings Pond holds more than 20,000 acre feet of water. With t ...

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

BUTTE — The Berkeley Pit holds 45 billion gallons of water. The Yankee Doodle Tailings Pond holds more than 20,000 acre feet of water. With th ...