"Unearth" follows two pairs of siblings who set out to understand what the mine might do to their home. It will screen during ...

The 95-minute film visits Butte; north Idaho's Silver Valley, barely outside Montana; Salt Lake City; and British Columbia to see the effects that large, open-pit copper mines have had in ...

To see the best of Butte, Montana, all Joyce OBill ... on the east side of town known as the Berkeley Pit, or just the pit, a former open-pit copper mine almost 1,800 feet deep.

It looked, to me, like mountaintop removal coal mining: a place with ... Visitors look at the Berkeley Pit from the viewing stand in Butte, Montana. Credit: Will Warasila At some point I ended ...

Montana Resources expects to hit a vein of high-grade copper that will increase production for the next few years.