Berkeley Pit From The Air: Drone Footage from Butte, MT
This year, I needed to spend some time in Butte, Montana and I had the opportunity to see the local sites in my downtime while there. Coming from an environmental background, I was thrilled to be able to see the Berkeley Pit from a perspective many haven't been able to see.
For those who are unfamiliar, the Berkeley Pit is the largest EPA Superfund site in the United States, meaning it's a historic site that is hugely contaminated. In this case, it is due to past work practices in copper mining.
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Our Lady of the Rockies Berkeley Pit huge Copper Mining Site Our Lady of the Rockies in Butte Montana is the second Talles Statue in the USA Can You guess the First..;-) Butte is a Western Mine Town and The Richest hill In the World and Butte has huge Virgin Mary Statue on top of the mountains overlooking the city Our Lady of the Rockies. The Statue is Lit up att night you can also do a tour and see it up close in the Spring and Summer. This Statue is 90 Feet tall the Christ the Redeemer statue in Brazil is only 99 feet so pretty close considering just how Small Butte Montana is. The only Statue Bigger than Our Lady of the Rockies is The Statue of Liberty.. The Berkley Pit was the Richest Mountain in the world at the time. They produced enough Copper to pave a Four-Lane Highway four inches thick from Butte to Salt Lake City which is about 350 to 400 miles. That is very impressive. Pause and read the paper it is pretty cool how much rock they pulled out of the pit. They are closed in the winter time or I would of showed you the actual pit itself. As I drove around I tried to zoom in on the giant Virgin Mary statue that they have up on top of the hill but I couldn't get that good of a shot of it. It is not the size of the one in Brazil but it is huge and quite impressive.
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Our Lady of the Rockies is a 90-foot (27 m) statue, dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary, that sits atop the Continental Divide overlooking Butte, Montana. It is the second tallest statue in the United States after The Statue of Liberty.[1]
The statue was built by volunteers using donated materials to honor women everywhere, especially mothers. The base is 8,510 feet above sea level and 3,500 feet above the town. The statue is lit and visible at night.
The statue was first imagined by local resident Bob O'Bill. In 1979, his wife was seriously ill with cancer. He promised the Blessed Virgin Mary that he would make a 5 foot statue of her in his yard if his wife recovered.[2] When she recovered he began the project with his fellow workers who gradually changed the initial vision to a 90-foot-high mountain top statue. Many people in Butte donated materials and time to make the statue a reality. The design for the statue was engineered by Laurien Eugene Riehl. He was a retired engineer for the Anaconda Company who donated his engineering skills to the project. The statue had to withstand the powerful windsheers that buffet the ridge tops. Joe Roberts donated his lot and buildings for the construction of the statue. The statue was airlifted from Roberts Rocky Mountain Equipment to its present site on the Continental Divide.
Work on the project began December 29, 1979. Volunteers spent many summer evenings blasting a road to the top of the Rockies, sometimes making only 10 feet of progress a day. The base of the statue was poured in September 1985 with 400 tons of concrete. The concrete was provided by Pioneer
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Dusty Slay visits the Berkeley Pit in Butte, Montana.
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The Berkeley Pit is a former open pit copper mine located in Butte, Montana, United States. It is one mile long by half a mile wide with an approximate depth of 1,780 feet (540 m). It is filled to a depth of about 900 feet (270 m) with water that is heavily acidic (2.5 pH level), about the acidity of cola or lemon juice.[1] As a result, the pit is laden with heavy metals and dangerous chemicals that leach from the rock, including copper, arsenic, cadmium, zinc, and sulfuric acid.[1]
The mine was opened in 1955 and operated by the Anaconda Copper Mining Company, and later by the Atlantic Richfield Company (ARCO), until its closure on Earth Day in 1982. When the pit was closed, the water pumps in the nearby Kelley Mine, 3,800 feet below the surface, were turned off, and groundwater from the surrounding aquifers began to slowly fill the Berkeley Pit, rising at about the rate of one foot a month.[1] Since its closure in 1982, the water level in the pit has risen to within 150 feet of the natural water table.
The pit and its water present a serious environmental problem because the water, with dissolved oxygen, allows pyrite and sulfide minerals in the ore and wall rocks to decay, releasing acid. When the pit water level eventually reaches the natural water table, estimated to occur by around 2020, the pit water will reverse flow back into surrounding groundwater, polluting Silver Bow Creek, which is the headwaters of Clark Fork of the Columbia River.[1] The acidic water in the pit carries a heavy load of dissolved heavy metals. The pit's water contains so much metal that at one point one of its owners, Montana Resources, mined copper directly from the water.[2][citation needed]
The first plans for solving the groundwater problem were devised in the 1990s. Water flowing into the pit has been diverted by the Horseshoe Bend Water Treatment Plant to slow the rise of the water level. Ground broke on a water treatment facility in September 2018, with the goal to have the facility fully operational five years before the pit's water level rises high enough to contaminate the groundwater of Butte.[3] The Berkeley Pit is currently one of the largest Superfund sites.
The Berkeley Pit is currently a tourist attraction, with an adjacent gift shop. A $2 admission fee is charged to go out on the viewing platform.
The Berkeley Pit - Butte, Montana's most famous tourist destination!
The Toxic Pit With A $3 Admission Fee
The Berkeley Pit, in Butte, Montana, was once the richest hill on Earth: the Anaconda Copper Mine. Now: it's not all that rich, and it's not much of a hill. Instead, it's a toxic pit filled with sulfuric acid.
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Groundwater Under the Butte Hill: The East Camp Mining System and the Berkeley Pit
This lecture by Nicholas Tucci discusses monitoring activities of the Berkeley Pit for the past 31 years at the Montana Bureau of Mines and Geology in Butte, Montana.
Montana Mosaic 1: When Copper Was King
This 22-minute video explores the profound impact of the copper mining industry on Montana. This video can be viewed as two shorter segments if desired. Segment 1 (10:55) focuses specifically on the Copper King's 1894 Capital Fight between Helena and Anaconda. Segment 2 (11:13) focuses on the tensions between laborers and management in Butte's copper mines in the early 20th century. These tensions paralleled the growth of unions in Butte. This video presents an overarching theme of industrialization during the period from 1892 until World War I-era Montana.
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4K City Walks: Butte, Montana Virtual Treadmill Walking Tour No. 2
Had a job in Butte, Montana and I was able to get a couple walks in. This 2nd one is from Montana Tech to uptown Butte, where most of the old buildings are located. Butte has fallen on hard times the last couple of decades but was once known as the Richest Hill on Earth for its copper mines and the fortunes it made. It still has it's 19th Century charm even if some of the paint has chipped. Butte residents are a tough lot though and they still have many events and activities throughout the year. Give yourself a treat if you are near the junction of I-90 and i-15. It's definitely worth a stop.
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Butte is the county seat of Silver Bow County, Montana, United States. In 1977, the city and county governments consolidated to form the sole entity of Butte-Silver Bow. The city covers 718 square miles (1,860 km2), and, according to the 2010 census, has a population of 33,503, making it Montana's fifth largest city. It is served by Bert Mooney Airport with airport code BTM.
Established in 1864 as a mining camp in the northern Rocky Mountains on the Continental Divide, Butte experienced rapid development in the late-nineteenth century, and was Montana's first major industrial city. In its heyday between the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, it was one of the largest copper boomtowns in the American West. Employment opportunities in the mines attracted surges of Asian and European immigrants, particularly the Irish; as of 2017, Butte has the largest population of Irish Americans per capita of any city in the United States.
Over the course of its history, Butte's mining and smelting operations generated an excess of $48 billion worth of ore, but also resulted in numerous environmental implications for the city: The upper Clark Fork River, with headwaters at Butte, is the largest Superfund site in the United States, and the city is also home to the Berkeley Pit. In the late-twentieth century, cleanup efforts from the EPA were instated, and the Butte Citizens Technical Environmental Committee was established in 1984. In the 21st century, efforts at interpreting and preserving Butte's heritage are addressing both the town's historical significance and the continuing importance of mining to its economy and culture. The city's Uptown Historic District, on the National Register of Historic Places, is one of the largest National Historic Landmark Districts in the United States, containing nearly 6,000 contributing properties. The city is also home to Montana Tech, a public engineering and technical university.
Prior to Butte's formal establishment in 1864, the area consisted of a mining camp that had developed in the early 1860s. The city is located in the Silver Bow Creek Valley (or Summit Valley), a natural bowl sitting high in the Rockies straddling the Continental Divide,positioned on the southwestern side of a large mass of granite known as the Boulder Batholith, which dates to the Cretaceous era. In 1864, William L. Farlin founded the Asteroid Mine (subsequently known as the Travona); Farlin's founding of the Asteroid Mine attracted a significant number of prospectors seeking gold and silver. The mines attracted workers from Cornwall Ireland & Wales, Lebanon, Canada, Finland, Austria, Italy, China, Montenegro, Mexico, and more. In the ethnic neighborhoods, young men formed gangs to protect their territory and socialize into adult life, including the Irish of Dublin Gulch, the Eastern Europeans of the McQueen Addition, and the Italians of Meaderville.
The influx of miners gave Butte a reputation as a wide-open town where any vice was obtainable. The city's saloon and red-light district, called the Line or The Copper Block, was centered on Mercury Street, where the elegant bordellos included the famous Dumas Brothel. Behind the brothel was the equally famous Venus Alley, where women plied their trade in small cubicles called cribs. The red-light district brought miners and other men from all over the region and remained open until 1982 after the closure of the Dumas Brothel; the city's red-light was one of the last such urban districts in the United States. Commercial breweries first opened in Butte in the 1870s, and were a large staple of the city's early economy; they were usually run by German immigrants, including Leopold Schmidt, Henry Mueller, and Henry Muntzer. The breweries were always staffed by union workers. Most ethnic groups in Butte, from Germans and Irish to Italians and various Eastern Europeans, including children, enjoyed the locally brewed lagers, bocks, and other types of beer
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You see the world differently when you work underground. That made Butte, Montana different right from the start as immigrants came from around the world to work the mines. But what they blasted out of the 10,000 miles of tunnels was more than just copper. It was the rise of unions and multinational corporations, and the seeds of the current debate over the environment.
In this clip, the Granite Mountain mine fire killed 168 miners, sparking a strike. BUTTE, AMERICA premieres Tuesday, October 20 on Independent Lens, a weekly series airing on PBS. Hosted by Maggie Gyllenhaal, the acclaimed series showcases powerful and innovative independent films. Presented by ITVS, Independent Lens is broadcast on PBS stations nationwide. Visit the Web site for more:
Berkeley Pit Super fund site. Copper mining history.
Join me as I take a look at this super fund site in my home town. This pit is filled with toxic water and is almost a mile deep! I grew up with this in my back yard.
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Death in Butte’s Berkeley Pit: What 342 Dead Snow Geese Tell us about the Nature of Humans
“Death in Butte’s Berkeley Pit: What 342 Dead Snow Geese Tell Us about the Nature of Humans.” This talk is based on LeCain’s investigation of the 1995 deaths of 342 snow geese that landed in Butte’s Berkeley Pit and the 1905 deaths of thousands of animals that grazed in contaminated pastures near Anaconda. He compares environmental disasters in Montana’s past with catastrophes elsewhere and pens “crackling good yarns” about his findings. The deaths, at first, seemed to symbolize what happens when nature and humans collide. But LeCain started thinking that humans might be completely natural, too. Perhaps humans are an expression of nature instead of its shaper. “We need to kind of get over ourselves,” LeCain said. “This planet may actually have it in for us.” Timothy James LeCain is an award-winning historian of the global material environment. His first book, Mass Destruction, won the 2010 best book of the year award from the American Society for Environmental History and was chosen as an Outstanding Book of the Year by Choice, the review publication of the American Library Association. In 2009, LeCain and his colleague, Brett Walker, were awarded a $300,000 National Science Foundation grant to pursue a collaborative research project comparing Japanese and American responses to pollution from massive copper mining operations begun in the late 19th Century. From 2011 to 2012, LeCain was a Senior Fellow at the Rachel Carson Center in Münich, Germany, a global center for the study of the environmental humanities. In 2016, he will be a fellow at the Oslo Center for Advanced Studies, the preeminent Norwegian institution for interdisciplinary academic research. He is currently an Associate Professor of history and Director of Graduate Studies at Montana State University in Bozeman, Montana with his wife and two children.
Dr. Andrea Stierle and Dr. Don Stierle Discuss Extremophiles of the Berkeley Pit
Dr. Andrea Stierle and Dr. Don Stierle study extremophiles at the University of Montana.
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Bioprospecting in the Berkeley Pit: Extremophilic Microbes in Drug Discovery
Andrea Stierle is a natural products organic chemist who utilizes targeted bioassay guided fractionation to isolate secondary metabolites from source organisms. She earned her doctorate in Organic Chemistry from Montana State University where she discovered the first host specific toxin against the weed pest spotted knapweed and found that putative sponge metabolites can actually be produced by bacterial endosymbionts. With husband and collaborator Don Stierle she continued to study Bermudian sponge endosymbionts as sources for new bioactive agents and discovered a unique antibiotic that was also active against the AIDS virus.
As a Research Assistant Professor at Montana State University she discovered a fungus in the bark of the Pacific yew tree that produced paclitaxel in de novo fashion. This unique fungus – Taxomyces andreanae - was named after Andrea, its discoverer.
As a Research Professor at Montana Tech, a small mining college in Butte, Montana, she and Don began their exploration of the secondary metabolites of fungi and bacteria surviving and thriving in an abandoned acid mine waste lake. Berkeley Pit Lake is part of the largest EPA Superfund site in North America. It contains over 150 billion liters of metal sulfate rich, acidic “water” (pH 2.5) and sits at the headwaters of the Columbia River. With its low pH and high metal content, it was considered too toxic to support life. In 1995, however, Andrea began to isolate fungi and bacteria from water and sediment samples. Although conditions within the Pit Lake System were too toxic for “normal” aquatic biota, these same conditions provided an ideal environment for extremophiles which have proven to be a reservoir of bioactive secondary metabolites waiting to be discovered. The Stierle have isolated compounds with activity against non-small cell lung cancer, ovarian cancer, and leukemia from this collection.
As a Research Professor at the University of Montana, Andrea continues to work with Don to explore the secondary metabolites produced by these extremophiles. They are also studying the secondary metabolites of human gut microbes and Ayurvedic plants. They are currently focusing on the isolation of small molecule inhibitors of enzyme pathways associated with inflammatory processes and epithelial mesenchymal transition.
VISIT BUTTE, MONTANA!
Welcome to Butte, Montana! The Copper Jewel of the Treasure State, Butte, Montana, located half way between Yellowstone National Park and Glacier National Park is the perfect year-round travel destination for families, fun-seekers and the history buff in all of us.
A treasure-trove of fascinating sights and adventures, Uptown Butte boasts the largest and most interesting historical district in the United States. In Butte, you can stay at one of our historic or modern hotels, take a variety of exciting and unique tours Uptown and underground, enjoy some amazing local food, and shop for treasures to take home with you.
Things to See & Do in Butte, MT:
The Copper King Mansion
The Art Chateau
The Dumas Brothel
The Mai Wah Museum
Old Butte Historical Adventures
Butte Urban Safari Tours
The Science Mine
The Mineral Museum
The World Museum of Mining
Our Lady of the Rockies
Holy Trinity Serbian Orthodox Church
The Montana Folk Festival
Evel Knievel Days
An Ri Ra State Irish Festival
St. Patrick's Day
Silver Dollar Saloon
The Butte Depot
NRA Rodeo
Pro Bullriding
The Butte Civic Center
Fairmont Hot Springs Resort
The Copper King Hotel & Convention Center
Brenda's Florist
Feathering Your Nest
Cavanaugh's County Celtic
Hilltop Market
The Chamber Visitor's Bureau
The Berkeley Pit
The Copper Shop
Where to Eat in Butte, MT:
The Pekin Noodle Parlor
Lydia's Supper Club
The Uptown Cafe
Christina's Cocina
Casagranda's Steakhouse
The Derby
The Montana Club
Soho Asian Restaurant
Park & Main Cafe
Metals Bar
Tacos Del Sol
The Red Door
Anaconda Copper Mining Company: Bob Vine collection, reel 19
[silent] Footage pertaining to the Anaconda Copper Mining Company in Montana. Created and compiled by ACM employee Bob Vine, circa 1960s. From the original film canister notes: Miscellaneous – geological dept. (Thornton Bldg., Butte, color) – annual report highlights, May 1967; loading anodes into Bosch tanks; construction at weed concentrator, Butte; smelter addition; converter aisle; miners coming up from underground; shovel loading truck (Berkeley Pit); casting billets, Great Falls; Anaconda Building Materials lumber products; overhead view of Berkeley Pit; year-end wrap-up (Jan. 1967); converter 'blowing'; casting anodes; fire assay dept.; John Alley, chemist; miners coming up from underground; Bill Conroy; pres. gen. mgr. B.A. & P.; scale weighing operation (Anaconda); casting wheel; stockholders meeting, June 1966; marquee; Washoe Theater; stockholders entering theater; graphic – 'how big is a stockholder'; '4 out of 10 own fewer than 25 shares'; '8 out of 10 own fewer than 100 shares'; speaker at podium; Charles Brindlehoff, chairman, with Frank Day, smelter manager; Mel Storke, among others, plant engineer; visitors @ smelter. Billboard in color: 'Anaconda a partner in Montana’s progress'; Great Falls Scientific Achievement Awards (1966); exhibits; participants; graphic; anode on Gt. Falls Tribune paper – 'State Fair Opens @ Noon Today' – (headline). Miscellaneous (bl & white): Lester Zellen & others – geological dept. core samples; cutting samples; skyline of Anaconda; Fr. Maroney; St. Peters church (Anaconda); hand holding aerial photo of tailing pond area; instrumentation personnel; Butte Service Award recipients at work. (collection MOV 0094)
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Butte, America, is the largest historical district in the United States...and a curious, wonderful place with a hard-rock history of prostitution, gambling,drinking and mining.
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Montana Cold Case: murder of Butte woman unsolved decades later
November 29th, 1994, is a day Jennifer MacPhee will never forget.
“I remember everything about that day as if it was yesterday,” said MacPhee. “From the beginning of the day to the end of the day, I can tell you everything I was doing.”
That was the day her mother Julianne Stallman was brutally murdered in her own home on California Street in Butte.
7 Super Toxic U.S. Sites
Let's face it: Humans are pretty messy. Industrial processes like mining and manufacturing are important parts of keeping civilization going, but they all impact the environment. Sometimes that impact is particularly big and messy, leaving behind hazardous waste that can take years or even decades to clean up.
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