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Montana is packed with gorgeous nature, but what of its human history? This secret town straddles the two with mining history ...

To see the best of Butte, Montana, all Joyce OBill has to do is ... 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 ...

Montana Resources expects to hit a vein of high-grade copper that will increase production for the next few years.