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The toxic pit with a $3 admission fee

Tom Scott
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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... "35,000 people a year": https://www.travelandleisure.com/trip...] Protective Water Level, and the details of the underground water that I didn't have time to go into: https://pitwatch.org/protective-water... The first treated water being removed from the pit: https://www.mtpr.org/post/treated-wat... Edited by Tom Fuller 🟥 MORE FROM TOM: https://www.tomscott.com/ (you can find contact details and social links there too) 📰 WEEKLY NEWSLETTER with good stuff from the rest of the internet: https://www.tomscott.com/newsletter/ ❓ LATERAL, free weekly podcast: https://lateralcast.com/    / lateralcast   ➕ TOM SCOTT PLUS:    / tomscottplus   👥 THE TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES:    / techdif   ...more
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The toxic pit with a $3 admission fee
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2019Sep 16
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... "35,000 people a year": https://www.travelandleisure.com/trip...] Protective Water Level, and the details of the underground water that I didn't have time to go into: https://pitwatch.org/protective-water... The first treated water being removed from the pit: https://www.mtpr.org/post/treated-wat... Edited by Tom Fuller 🟥 MORE FROM TOM: https://www.tomscott.com/ (you can find contact details and social links there too) 📰 WEEKLY NEWSLETTER with good stuff from the rest of the internet: https://www.tomscott.com/newsletter/ ❓ LATERAL, free weekly podcast: https://lateralcast.com/    / lateralcast   ➕ TOM SCOTT PLUS:    / tomscottplus   👥 THE TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES:    / techdif  

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Tom Scott

6.53M subscribers