MORE BERKELEY PIT RESOURCES

Web Sites & Files

• Clark Fork Watershed Education Program
• Berkeley Pit and Butte Mine-Flooding Operable Unit from MBMG
• EPA's Berkeley Pit QuickTime Virtual Reality Tour
• Consent Decree for Butte Mine Flooding Site (PDF format)
• Images of the Berkeley Pit by artist Todd Trigsted
• The Berkeley Pit on Wikipedia
• Berkeley Pit, Butte, Montana on YouTube
• Radiolab Episode featuring the Berkeley Pit

News Articles

• Healing hula: Butte dancers memorialize Berkley Pit bird deaths (from The Ravalli Republic 2010)
• The Science of the Berkeley Pit (from The Waterblogger 2009)
• How mining nearly killed the 'richest hill on Earth' (from CNET 2009)
• The Pit of Life and Death (from DamnInteresting.com 2008)
• Researchers Hope Creatures From Black Lagoon Can Help Fight Cancer (from Wired 2007)
• In the Battle Against Cancer, Researchers Find Hope in a Toxic Wasteland (from The New York Times 2007)
• New Life in a Death Trap (from Discover 2000)
• Cool Water Hula by the Berkeley Pit (from ButteAmerica.com 2000)
• Did toxic stew cook the goose? (from High Country News 1995)

Academic Publications

• Duaime, T.E. Tucci, N. J, 2009, Butte Mine Flooding Operable Mine Unit Water-Level Monitoring and Water Quality Sampling 2008 Consent Decree Update Butte, Montana 1982-2008 (CD only), Montana Bureau of Mines and Geology: Open-File Report 589, 157 p.

Superfund Documents

• EPA Record of Decision for the Butte Mine Flooding Operable Unit (including the Berkeley Pit)

For information about Berkeley Pit resources specifically for teachers and educators, click here.

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