Berkeley Pit

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(353) · Museum in Butte, United States
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PitWatch.org is the online home of the Berkeley Pit Public Education Committee. This volunteer committee educates residents, students, and the …

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Jul 30, 2024
What a stunning place! Walking through the tunnel I didn’t expect it to open out like it did, I have read about this place online and local concerns over the water quality but on the day seeing it i…Full review by bikerbabe108
Jul 26, 2024
Butte is a tough hardscrabble city. It’s the Appalachia of Montana. I’ve been there before, but I’ve never spent time exploring and learning more about its story. It’s home to one of the largest E…Full review by Mark H
Aug 12, 2023
One of the biggest -- if not THE biggest --- environmental "Superfund" cleanup sites in the country. This is a vast pit of toxic water, a byproduct of the largest copper mining area in the world. Full review by writealready

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How was the Berkeley Pit formed?
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The Berkeley Pit is a man-made depression formed by 30 years of open pit mining. Open pit mining is a surface mining technique that extracts minerals from an open...
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