Copper prices soar above $6 per pound, creating record profits for Butte's mining operations as electric vehicle demand and ...

BUTTE - A class action lawsuit involving Montana Resource’s water contamination incident in August is expected to go into ...

Montana’s highest court upheld the Department of Natural Resources and Conservation permit for the Black Butte Copper Mine. Now the project can proceed as planned. Montana Trout Unlimited, one of the ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. Earlier this month, mining company Montana Resources discovered that a fire hydrant hooked up to ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. BUTTE — A class-action lawsuit was filed Monday in Butte-Silver Bow District Court against ...

Kim Murphy Kohn, Assistant Director of the World Museum of Mining, will share a presentation of historic photographs entitled “Men in the Mines: Mine Crews in Butte, Montana, 1882-1960” at noon First ...

BUTTE (AP) Montana Resources is asking its former president to evaluate the economic feasibility of reopening its copper mine after a nearly three-year shutdown. "Current market prices for metals and ...

Monday's earthquake may have sent a wave across the Berkeley Pit, and it may have raised the water level in underground mine shafts an inch. But the earthquake — starting about 40 miles south of Butte ...

Preface: The Meaning and Making of Childhood in Butte, Montana -- Children of The Hill : Situating Children in Butte's History -- Mining Childhood -- Saving Children -- Child's Play -- School Days -- ...

BUTTE - Union jobs in mine reclamation are one avenue for the labor movement to gain strength in Montana, the AFL-CIO's national president says. John Sweeney spoke on the opening day of the state ...

A class-action lawsuit was filed Monday in Butte-Silver Bow District Court against Montana Resources, the sprawling copper and molybdenum mine in Butte.