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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

At 5:45 p.m. the man minding the door at the Helsinki Bar in Butte's Finntown politely forbade ... including Finn Town — to feed the Berkeley Pit’s rapacious appetite and to create a buffer ...

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.

An curved arrow pointing right. If migrating birds land on Montana's Berkeley Pit for just a few hours, they die. Now, miners use a rifle, drones, and lasers to scare them away. More from Science ...