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Tailings can cause all kinds of problems.

Inspired by the National Park Service's color palettes, see palettes for some of Montana's notables places and landscapes.

Inspired by the National Park Service's color palettes, see palettes for some of Montana's notables places and landscapes.

Inspired by the National Park Service's color palettes, see palettes for some of Montana's notables places and landscapes.

After being a source of copper for many years, the Berkeley Pit in Butte, Montana now holds a contaminated lake which has long been a source of strife. But the

Montana Resources might be willing to host a haul route on its property to allow Superfund wastes from the Silver Bow Creek Corridor to travel by truck to a repository.

“Once again, the State gets the gold mine and Butte gets the shaft!”

Atlantic Richfield is considering establishing a mining wastes repository on land it owns north of the Kelley Headframe. The repository would take material excavated from polluted sites in the Flats.

Both John Kotka and Mike Ingram grew up in communities and families that believed in unions. On Labor Day 2023, both expressed gratitude for their affiliation with the Carpenters Union.

From the column: "Sulfide mining has a disastrous track record that jeopardizes the Rainy River watershed and interconnected hydrology systems."