Download or read book The City That Ate Itself written by Brian James Leech and published by University of Nevada Press. This book was released on 2018-02-28 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Mining History Association Clark Spence Award for the Best Book in Mining History, 2017-2018 Brian James Leech provides a social and environmental history of Butte, Montana’s Berkeley Pit, an open-pit mine which operated from 1955 to 1982. Using oral history interviews and archival finds, The City That Ate Itself explores the lived experience of open-pit copper mining at Butte’s infamous Berkeley Pit. Because an open-pit mine has to expand outward in order for workers to extract ore, its effects dramatically changed the lives of workers and residents. Although the Berkeley Pit gave consumers easier access to copper, its impact on workers and community members was more mixed, if not detrimental. The pit’s creeping boundaries became even more of a problem. As open-pit mining nibbled away at ethnic communities, neighbors faced new industrial hazards, widespread relocation, and disrupted social ties. Residents variously responded to the pit with celebration, protest, negotiation, and resignation. Even after its closure, the pit still looms over Butte. Now a large toxic lake at the center of a federal environmental cleanup, the Berkeley Pit continues to affect Butte’s search for a postindustrial future.
Download or read book Sampling and Analysis Plan for Berkeley Pit Butte Montana written by CDM Federal Programs Corporation and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Butte s Berkeley Pit written by Pat Kearney and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Butte, Montana was one of the most productive, but unsafe underground hardrock mining operations in the world. All that started to change in 1955 when shovels started digging the Berkeley Pit. The new mining venture became the largest open pit truck operation in the world. The massive complex produced millions of pounds of copper, silver, gold, zinc and other minerals. The Berkeley Pit created jobs, prosperity, safer working conditions and a new lease on life for the richest hill on earth. During that same time, the Berkeley Pit completely changed the way of life in Butte. The ethnic neighborhoods that made the city so unique were wiped away by the enormous shovels and trucks from the Pit operation. The same thing almost took place to the historic business district. The unions became bigger, more aggressive and much harder to control for the Anaconda Company. The Berkeley Pit led to massive amounts of waste rock that changed the skyline. In the end, the Berkeley Pit helped create the largest Superfund clean up site in the world. This is the story of how one single event, the development of an open pit mining operation, forever changed one community, Butte, Montana. This is the story of Butte's Berkeley Pit.
Download or read book Factors Affecting the Geochemistry of the Berkeley Pit Butte Montana for the Butte Addition to the Silver Bow Creek Butte NPL Site Butte Montana written by Camp, Dresser & McKee and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Opportunity Montana written by Brad Tyer and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2013-03-26 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A memoir-meets-exposé that examines our fraught relationship with the West and our attempts to clean up a toxic environmental legacy In 2002, Texas journalist Brad Tyer strapped a canoe on his truck and moved to Montana, a state that has long exerted a mythic pull on America’s imagination as an unspoiled landscape. The son of an engineer who reclaimed wastewater, Tyer was looking for a pristine river to call his own. What he found instead was a century’s worth of industrial poison clotting the Clark Fork River, a decades-long engineering project to clean it up, and a forgotten town named Opportunity. At the turn of the nineteenth century, Montana exploited the richest copper deposits in the world, fueling the electric growth of twentieth-century America and building some of the nation’s most outlandish fortunes. The toxic by-product of those fortunes—what didn’t spill into the river—was dumped in Opportunity. In the twenty-first century, Montana’s draw is no longer metal but landscape: the blue-ribbon trout streams and unspoiled wilderness of the nation’s “last best place.” To match reality to the myth, affluent exurbanites and well-meaning environmentalists are trying to restore the Clark Fork River to its “natural state.” In the process, millions of tons of toxic soils are being removed and dumped—once again—in Opportunity. As Tyer investigates Opportunity’s history, he wrestles with questions of environmental justice and the ethics of burdening one community with an entire region’s waste. Stalled at the intersection of a fading extractive economy and a fledgling restoration boom, Opportunity’s story is a secret history of the American Dream and a key to understanding the country’s—and increasingly the globe’s—demand for modern convenience. As Tyer explores the degradations of the landscape, he also probes the parallel emotional geography of familial estrangement. Part personal history and part reportorial narrative, Opportunity, Montana is a story of progress and its price: of copper and water, of father and son, and of our attempts to redeem the mistakes of the past.
Download or read book Butte Montana written by Terence E. Duaime and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Butte is located in southwestern Montana, on the west side of the Continental Divide at the headwaters of the Clark Fork River. The city sits at an elevation of over 1 mile above sea level on a cretaceous-age batholith that hosts a world-renowned porphyry-copper deposit.
Download or read book Berkeley Pit Butte Montana Northern Idaho Western Montana written by and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book University of Montana Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Butte Mine Flooding and the Berkeley Pit written by John L. Sonderegger and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The City that Ate Itself written by Brian James Leech and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 1090 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moving past the well-tread history of underground mining, this dissertation is the first study to examine the full social effects of the shift from underground to open pit mining, which occurred across the American West's hard rock industry. The basis for this dissertation is a case study of Butte, Montana, where the Anaconda Company performed this switch from the 1950s to the 1970s. Butte's Berkeley Pit was a safe and efficient way to mine copper, but the pit also consumed a number of old city neighborhoods, challenged mining's masculine work culture, lessened union power, strained residents' ethnic traditions, and damaged city leaders' attempts to plan for the future. Like community members, the Anaconda Company also had to adjust to the new form of mining. Facing community protests, Anaconda formed an effective property acquisition system and encouraged its engineers to manage the community's perceptions of open-pit hazards. Like other communities built on an unsustainable natural resource, Butte began to consume itself-- hollowing out the ground, the city center, and the economy. By the late 1970s, environmentalism, fiscal mismanagement, and international competition hit Anaconda at precisely the moment that it faced declining ore grades in Butte. By following Butte's story past the Berkeley Pit's closure in the 1980s, the dissertation therefore also covers the complex consequences of economic bust on western communities, a topic long overlooked in favor of natural resource booms. As the final chapters show, community members eventually made many, often-successful, attempts at environmental and social rebirth.
Download or read book Bulletin written by Montana Bureau of Mines and Geology and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Twenty Years of Water level and Water quality Sampling Butte Underground Mines and Berkeley Pit Butte Montana written by Terence E. Duaime and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Looking for Betty MacDonald written by Paula Becker and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2016-09-01 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Betty Bard MacDonald (1907–1958), the best-selling author of The Egg and I and the classic Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle children’s books, burst onto the literary scene shortly after the end of World War II. Readers embraced her memoir of her years as a young bride operating a chicken ranch on Washington’s Olympic Peninsula, and The Egg and I sold its first million copies in less than a year. The public was drawn to MacDonald’s vivacity, her offbeat humor, and her irreverent take on life. In 1947, the book was made into a movie starring Fred MacMurray and Claudette Colbert, and spawned a series of films featuring MacDonald's Ma and Pa Kettle characters. MacDonald followed up the success of The Egg and I with the creation of Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle, a magical woman who cures children of their bad habits, and with three additional memoirs: The Plague and I (chronicling her time in a tuberculosis sanitarium just outside Seattle), Anybody Can Do Anything (recounting her madcap attempts to find work during the Great Depression), and Onions in the Stew (about her life raising two teenage daughters on Vashon Island). Author Paula Becker was granted full access to Betty MacDonald’s archives, including materials never before seen by any researcher. Looking for Betty MacDonald, a biography of this endearing Northwest storyteller, reveals the story behind the memoirs and the difference between the real Betty MacDonald and her literary persona. Watch the book trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Lr6iVK4zWk
Download or read book The Berkeley Pit written by Dorothy Bryant and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harry's first poem describes his nightmare, the Berkeley Pit, which in 1962, gouged the heart out of his hometown, Butte, Montana. The pit mine's namesake, Berkeley, California, becomes his dream of hope. He arrives there in the late 1960s, as political turmoil and hope reach a peak, from which many dreams tumble, including Harry's.
Download or read book The Berkeley Pit written by Fritz Daily and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fritz Daily, a former Butte lawmaker who lives in the Butte, Montana area, has spent years trying to move the environmental cleanup of the Berkeley Pit forward. This is his report on his research into the issue. He starts off with an explanation of the Superfund process. Then he talks about the environmental and legal issues involved in the current ecology of the Berkeley Pit and the Butte area. He supplements this with newspaper articles, full-color pictures of the pit and it's surrounding area over time, statistics, documents, letters, and a synopsis of the Natural Resource Damage Lawsuit and Settlement against the Atlantic Richfield/British Petroleum Company vs. the State of Montana.
Download or read book History of Flooding of the Butte Underground Mines and Berkeley Pit Water level Monitoring and Water quality Sampling 2006 Consent Decree Update Butte Montana 1982 2006 written by Terence E. Duaime and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
