Editor's note: This is Part Two of a two-part series. It looms in the distance, 5 miles from Interstate 90 and reaching 585 feet into the sky. The brick smokestack between Anaconda and Butte looms as ...
World Museum of Mining likes idea of Lexington Tunnel Mine excursions The tour group is 400 feet below the crest of Main Street and it is pitch black. Guide Larry Hoffman invites the group to imagine ...
BUTTE — Half an hour before midnight on the 8th of June 1917, one simple, wrong move in a single, split second a half-mile below ground sparked what was then the worst hard-rock mining disaster in U.S ...
Copper prices soar above $6 per pound, creating record profits for Butte's mining operations as electric vehicle demand and ...
BUTTE (LEE) — Since May, students and engineers have been burrowing into the west side of property owned by the World Museum of Mining, hoping to coax a new experiential exhibit from the ground.