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2. Montana Highway 2 - Wikipedia

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   Montana Highway 2. Not to be confused with U.S. Route 2 in Montana. Montana Highway 2 ( MT 2) is a 63.241-mile-long (101.777 km) state highway in the southern part of the U.S. state of Montana. It extends from Interstate 15 (I-15) and I-90 in Butte to I-90 in Three Forks. Previously, this roadway was a part of U.S. Route 10 (US 10).

3. Butte, Anaconda and Pacific Railway - Wikipedia

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   1. The Butte, Anaconda and Pacific Railway ( reporting mark BAP) is a short line railroad in the U.S. state of Montana. The BA&P was founded in 1891 and operated as such until sale in 1985, when it was renamed the Rarus Railway ( reporting mark RARW ). The railway was again sold in May 2007 to the Patriot Rail Corporation, and the name returned ...

4. History of Butte, Montana - Wikipedia

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   History of Butte, Montana. Original Butte courthouse, 1885. A headframe overlooking Butte. Butte is a city in southwestern Montana established as a mining camp in the 1860s in the northern Rocky Mountains straddling the Continental Divide. Butte became a hotbed for silver and gold mining in its early stages, and grew exponentially upon the ...

5. Speculator Mine disaster - Wikipedia

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   Speculator Mine disaster. The Granite Mountain/Speculator Mine disaster of June 8, 1917, occurred as a result of a fire in a copper mine, and was the most deadly event in underground hard rock mining in United States history. Most men died of suffocation underground as the fire consumed their oxygen; a total of 168 miners were killed.

6. Interstate 90 in Montana - Wikipedia

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   Interstate 90 ( I-90) is an east–west transcontinental Interstate Highway across the northern United States, linking Seattle to Boston. The portion in the state of Montana is 552.54 miles (889.23 km) in length, passing through 14 counties in central and southern Montana. It is the longest segment of I-90 within a single state.

7. Berkeley Pit - Wikipedia

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   8 September 1983. List of Superfund sites. The Berkeley Pit is a former open pit copper mine in the western United States, located in Butte, Montana. It is one mile (1.6 km) long by one-half mile (800 m) wide, with an approximate depth of 1,780 feet (540 m). It is filled to a depth of about 900 feet (270 m) with water that is heavily acidic (2. ...