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Aerial image of Butte Montana showing both historic and recent mining activity. Mining began in Butte in the 1860's subsequently blossoming into an extensive underground mining district. Surface open pit mining began in 1955 at the Berkeley Pit (dark lake in center of image). The light colored area above and left from the pit is the ~1000 acre Yankee Doodle Tailings Pond.
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Stuart Jennings
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Much barren landscape remains where low pH condition coupled with elevated metal levels preclude plant growth.
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Stuart Jennings
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The Berkeley Pit is the poster child for the creation of large ecological problems as a consequence of metal mining. The pit is full of low pH water and has been placed on the National Priorities List for Superfund cleanup. The pit continues to fill and will reach a critical water level sometime around 2015 when treatment is required. The photo pictured is from 1999. To watch the pit fill, look at the images from 1983 and 1987!
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Stuart Jennings
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Did anyone say smelting? Many smelters operated in Butte during its heyday. Later, smelting move 25 miles west to the town of Anaconda.
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The Continental Pit, east of the Berkeley Pit, is an operational copper mine in Butte, Montana, employing several hundred miners. The mine reopened in 2004 after several years of inactivity caused by low commodity prices.
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Stuart Jennings
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