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Comments on: How mining nearly killed the 'richest hill on Earth'

In Butte, Mont., $48 billion worth of copper, gold, and silver mining made a lot of people rich--and created America's largest Superfund site. CNET Road Trip 2009 investigates where things are today.

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by LRRP66 July 24, 2009 1:36 PM PDT
D.T. should have expressed his feelings face to face with a local while he was in Butte. He could have been taken on a tour of the Con level 5,293' plus 6'.
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