Gardner persuaded Dennis Washington to buy the Butte mine in 1985 and then served as president of Montana Resources.

But Butte has held on to its history and builds its future. Visitors can see the World Mining Museum, hit the Montana Folk Festival and eat at the nations oldest Chinese restaurant, the Pekin ...

Just look at Butte. The copper extracted from the “Richest Hill on Earth” electrified a nation, powered Allied victories in two World Wars and sustained two thriving cities at the headwaters ...

But as the industry atrophied, so too did the economic fortunes of places like Butte and Anaconda that were built around copper mining. Revolving doors of executives, shell compan ...

The proposed underground Black Butte copper mine near White Sulphur Springs, Montana, would extract 440 tons of ore daily and generate 12.9 million tons of tailings from an 1,800-acre mine near the ...

American school teacher Marc Fogel released from prison in Russia I had 22 layovers in just a few months. I swear by these 5 tricks that actually helped me enjoy them. Yellowstone to Yosemite ...

With the help of a grant from the Foundation for Montana History, the Butte-Silver Bow Archives is hosting a new exhibit, "Business of Burial in Butte." ...

Montana Technological University’s Mining Team will travel to the University of Exeter’s Camborne School of Mines for the 47th International Collegiate Mining Competition to be held at the King Edward ...