BERKELEY PIT, BUTTE, MONTANA
The Berkeley Pit Lake, located in Butte, Montana, is a part of the largest Federal Superfund site in the United States. Selective underground mining in the Butte area began in the 1860s. The Berkeley Pit mine was eventually opened in 1955, when the area surrounding the mine was surface-stripped by the Anaconda Copper Mining Company to allow miners access to the depths of the mountain. The mines were worked until 1982, when the operation was abandoned. Over the twenty-seven years it was active, the Berkeley Pit Mine produced over one billion tons of ore, including copper, lead, zinc, gold, and manganese, leading to the nickname the Richest Hill on Earth. Once the pit was closed in 1982, groundwater started to fill the pit to the natural groundwater level. Because its water contains high concentrations of metals such as copper and zinc, the Berkeley Pit is listed as a federal Superfund site.
HEDGE LAYING by SIMON FOWLER
PLAN by ANNE DE VRIES, 2005
Waternetworks - Drops by Fulgaro
Armatures for a fluid landscape by Toshio Shibata
novembre 25th, 2010 at 9:56
I was born in Butte Montana, on Aug. 8th 1954. To Lee and Mary Ortega. My dad worked the Copper mines of Butte at that time. We left Montana then I was about 2 yrs. old, for Califoria. I remember nothing about my birth state, but all my life I have looked at many beautiful pictures of Montana. These are some of the most beautiful of the city of Butte and of Montana I have ever seen, and I thank-you for such loviness in these moments captured in time.