A Field Guide to Going Nowhere,' author Nick Triolo let PEOPLE in on his philosophy, and his unusual Montana abode.

Researchers discovered a way to extract rare earth materials from the Berkeley Pit, a toxic abandoned mine in Butte, Montana.

The Yankee Doodle Tailings storage pond above Butte sequesters tailings from both the Berkeley Pit and the Continental Pit. Montana Resources wants to raise the elevation of the pond’s rockfill dam ...

A toxic pit could be a gold mine for rare earth elements The global scramble for metals critical to manufacturing and technology advances has caused demand to soar.

Idaho Falls-based Frontier Credit Union will acquire First Citizens Bank of Butte, the credit union announced Thursday, marking its first expansion into Montana. Financial details of the deal were not ...

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.

Hager was a longtime supporter of UM, who began her career as an artist in Butte's Metals Bank Building in 1981. While living in Butte with the Berkley Pit in view she was inspired her to paint ...

Thousands of miles from the flooded Berkeley Pit in Butte, Montana lies the Cobre Panama on Panama’s Atlantic coast. Atlantic Richfield announced in 1983 that its Butte mining operations were shutting ...

Atlantic Richfield/BP is considering a roughly 12-acre site, currently on Montana Resources mine property, for Superfund wastes not suitable for dumping in the Berkeley Pit, another proposed ...

They include the highly-contaminated Berkeley Pit and a location on property currently owned by Montana Resources off Shields Avenue.