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 ...

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

To see the best of Butte, Montana, all Joyce OBill has to do is ... a former open-pit copper mine almost 1,800 feet deep. The city was once among the worlds most important copper-mining regions.

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

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Feb. 9 marks a significant moment in Montana’s history — the 160th anniversary of the day our territorial government adopted ...

Addressing the Constitutional Convention in 1889, W. A. Clark raved about the benefits of the “arsenic laden smoke” emanating from Butte smelters and furnaces, resulting in the beautiful complexions o ...

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