Ground- and surface water filling the Berkeley Pit, an abandoned open pit copper-molybdenum mine in Butte, Montana

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This abandoned open pit mine at Butte has been filling with groundwater and surface water since the mine closed in 1982.

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Size: 5616px × 2670px
Location: Butte, Montana, USA
Photo credit: © Marli Miller / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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