Relentless winds off Mount Haggin coupled with as-yet-uncovered granular slag yield the sort of smudges you might see on a coal miner’s face. The smudges show up on the once uniformly brown, ...

ANACONDA — The mound of black slag harkens back to an era when Anaconda bustled, when the Anaconda Company operated beneath a benign and paternalistic veneer, when the bloom of nostalgia took root.

Work driven by aspirations both aesthetic and environmental resumed recently on Smelter Hill east of Anaconda. A contractor hired by Atlantic Richfield/BP is grading a portion of the gritty black slag ...

Copper smelting, a critical process in metal production, often leads to the generation of slag containing valuable metals. Traditionally, this slag has been discarded, causing environmental issues and ...

Work recently resumed on Smelter Hill to grade the west slope of black slag east of Anaconda to prepare it for soil cover and seeding in 2025. Similar work in 2022 and 2023 covered the north slope of ...