A California startup has developed the specialized resin beads needed to extract lithium from brine with ion exchange and ...

I am among the many journalists, tour guides and travel book authors guilty of describing the Washington Monument as “the world’s tallest free-standing masonry structure.” At 555 feet 5 ...

The rise and fall of a controversial company. This episode documents the rise and the fall of a company credited with creating the state's economy but criticized for the environmental toll it took ...

The contamination, which in some isolated lots is more than 10 times the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) standard for residential areas, is a legacy of the Anaconda Copper Mining ...

It’s the toxic legacy of southwestern Montana’s mining days, when copper ore processed in Anaconda was used to electrify the United States. Opportunity resident and former smelter worker Serge ...

But southern Powell County is not a Superfund site, nor is it part of Anaconda’s. The Washoe Smelter, which shut down in 1980, processed thousands of tons of copper a day for around 80 years.

Fueled by demand after World War II, Anaconda produced 1.7 billion pounds of copper from 1952 to 1978 at the mine in the Mason Valley, an irrigated agricultural oasis in the area’s otherwise ...

Despite historic drilling by major miners like Phelps Dodge and Anaconda, who calculated over 6.4 billion pounds of contained copper potential on Anaconda lands alone (not NI 43-101 compliant ...