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Proposed. 30 December 1982. Listed. 8 September 1983. List of Superfund sites. The Berkeley Pit is a former open pit copper mine in the western United States, located in Butte, Montana. It is one mile (1.6 km) long by one-half mile (800 m) wide, with an approximate maximum depth of 1,780 feet (540 m). It is filled to a depth of about 900 feet ...
2409651 [2] Website. www.co.silverbow.mt.us. Butte (/ bjuːt / BEWT) is a consolidated city-county and 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 km 2), and, according to the 2020 census ...
History of Butte, Montana. Original Butte courthouse, 1885. A headframe overlooking Butte. Butte is a city in southwestern Montana established as a mining camp in the 1860s in the northern Rocky Mountains straddling the Continental Divide. Butte became a hotbed for silver and gold mining in its early stages, and grew exponentially upon the ...
All titles published by Skyhigh Communications, Butte. 1989 – Butte's Big Game; 1990 – Miracle on the East Ridge (about the Our Lady of the Rockies statue) 1994 – Butte's Pride – The Columbia Gardens (about the 1899–1973 amusement park, Montana's only major one) 1998 – Butte's Voices: Mining, Neighborhoods, People
Speculator Mine disaster. The Granite Mountain/Speculator Mine disaster of June 8, 1917, occurred as a result of a fire in a copper mine, and was the most deadly event in underground hard rock mining in United States history. Most men died of suffocation underground as the fire consumed their oxygen; a total of 168 miners were killed.
Blessed Virgin Mary. Our Lady of the Rockies is a 90-foot (27 m) statue built in the likeness of Mary, the mother of Jesus, that stands atop the Continental Divide overlooking Butte, Montana, United States. It is the fourth-tallest statue in the United States after Birth of the New World, the Statue of Liberty, and the Pegasus and Dragon.
1914 Butte, Montana, labor riots. Union hall of the Western Federation of Miners local at Butte, Montana, after its destruction by dissident miners on 23 June 1914. The Butte, Montana labor riots of 1914 were a series of violent clashes between copper miners at Butte, Montana. The opposing factions were the miners dissatisfied with the Western ...
1st. Website. co.silverbow.mt.us. Montana county number 01. Unigov with Butte, MT. Silver Bow County is a county in the U.S. state of Montana. As of the 2020 census, the population was 35,133. [1] Its county seat is Butte. [2] In 1977, the city and county governments consolidated to form the single entity of Butte-Silver Bow.