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The 95-minute film visits Butte; north Idaho's Silver Valley, barely outside Montana; Salt Lake City; and British Columbia to see the effects that large, open-pit copper mines have had in ...

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

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

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

Eutsler was deemed fit to stand trial in the summer of 2024 after doctors from the Montana State Hospital ... of Aug. 1 at the gravel pit located near Silver Butte Road after a woman called ...