Hillcrest Elementary students recently learned a thing or two about mining the Richest Hill on Earth. Donning hard hats and safety glasses at Montana Resources, the 50 fifth-graders walked through ...

BASIN — For nearly a century, High Ore Creek wound its way through piles of tailings left over from decades of mining gold, silver and zinc.

BUTTE — Dropping copper prices temporarily shuttered a mine in Troy this week, but don’t expect to see anything similar from Montana Resources in Butte.

The Butte area has been designated as a Superfund site by the EPA due to previous mining that left behind toxic waste. Montana Resources and Atlantic Richfield Company are charged with remediation ...

BUTTE (AP) — Montana Resources is midway through an epic year. Copper hit an all-time high of $4.86 per pound on May 10 and was at $4.21 Wednesday. Meanwhile, molybdenum, the mine's other ...

Now home to 35,000, Butte is most famous for its biggest scar: the mile-long crater on the east side of town known as the Berkeley Pit, or just “the pit,” a former open-pit copper mine almost ...

When Montana Resources opened in 1985, it helped steady Butte’s declining population at around 30,000, at least half of what it was during the Montana town’s prime mining days in the 1920s.

BUTTE, Mont. — The underground mines have been closed in Butte for decades. But some of the most prominent old mine yards are seeing new life as historic touch stones. One of the most famous ...

"Unearth" follows two pairs of siblings who set out to understand what the mine might do to their home. It will screen during the 2025 Big Sky Documentary Film Festival.

A partnership between a southwest Montana mining operation and Montana Tech's Highland College aims to get more workers on the job and properly trained. Black Butte is an active copper mine tucked ...

This 2008 file photo shows Mt. Emmons, also known as the "Red Lady," overlooking the town of Crested Butte. CRESTED BUTTE — This end-of-the-road village has spent nearly 40 years transforming ...