The toxic pit with a $3 admission fee
发布时间 2019-09-16 15:00:16 来源
摘要
The Berkeley Pit, in Butte, Montana, was once the richest hill on Earth: the Anaconda Copper Mine. Now: it's not all that rich, and it's not much of a hill. Instead, it's a toxic pit filled with sulfuric acid.
Thanks to the Montana Resources team: https://www.montanaresources.com/
REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING:
"10,000 miles of tunnels": https://mtstandard.com/news/local/new-map-plots-butte-underground/article_f1de51e2-948f-5634-9aa0-87ad730d9cfd.html
"35,000 people a year": https://www.travelandleisure.com/trip-ideas/toxic-montana-pit-tourist-attraction]
Protective Water Level, and the details of the underground water that I didn't have time to go into: https://pitwatch.org/protective-water-level/
The first treated water being removed from the pit: https://www.mtpr.org/post/treated-water-begins-flowing-out-buttes-berkeley-pit
Edited by Tom Fuller
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