Berkeley Pit, Butte, Montana

A report on the environmental geology of Butte, Montana with a focus on Berkeley Pit.

For More Information:
Pit Watch 2009. Berkeley Pit Public Education Committee http://www.pitwatch.org/
EPA's Superfund Program http://www.epa.gov/region8/superfund/mt/sbcbutte/index.html
Record of Decision http://www.epa.gov/region8/superfund/mt/sbcbutte/RODFactSheet02Oct2006.pdf

Works Cited:
Map of MT by Google Maps
Statistics from Pit Watch 2009 newspaper

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Category:

Education

Tags:

• Butte
• Berkeley Pit
• Clark Fork Basin Sites
• environmental geology
• montana
• superfund
• mining
• copper
• molybdenum
• Montana Resources
• Anaconda Copper
• Atlantic Richfield Company

[gatoperas]

cracked

[flyhghgy]

Well done!

[ultimaxx9]

This gives MT a bad rep in some ways. I love MT and it is a beautiful place. This is mans fault here.

@aryafeydakin Very true

@Dojocho I live in MT. Cancer is actually not that bad here. Only if your water is contaminated and the MT government is really good at preventing that.

[aryafeydakin]

Actually they watch it because it's still extremely valuable. Obviously this kind of thing fascinate people more than offend them. Just like a physicist before an elephant foot at Prypiat.

This is so concentrated with copper and other minerals that one could just do, not a saltpan, but a copperpan for a living : this filthy water is pure liquid gold now in the eyes of the industry, did you see the price of metals today ?

[Dojocho]

If you understood biology you would understand how toxic to humans that water is..I'm Prof of Biology Univeristy of Osaka..Japan.

[DrRabbitz]

@Dojocho but it grows bacteria and protists that shit anti-cancer drugs (I'm not making that up)

[Dojocho]

poor people of montana....check out the cancer in libby too..corperate scum.

[jtraske]

shit creek