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Main Title Opportunity, Montana : big copper, bad water, and the burial of an American landscape /
Author Tyer, Brad.
Publisher Beacon Press,
Year Published 2013
OCLC Number 795758070
ISBN 9780807003299; 0807003298; 9780807033258; 0807033251
Subjects Copper mines and mining--Waste disposal--Montana--Opportunity Region ; Copper mines and mining--Environmental aspects--Clark Fork Watershed (Mont and Idaho) ; United States--Clark Fork Watershed
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EOAM  TD899.C59 2013 Region 8 Technical Library/Denver,CO 09/22/2014
Collation xv, 232 pages : maps ; 24 cm
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Includes bibliographical references.
Contents Notes
Headwater -- Venus Rising -- Red Harvest -- Clark Fork -- Opportunity -- Revival -- Confluence. At the turn of the nineteenth century, Montana exploited the richest copper deposits in the world, fueling the growth of twentieth-century America. The toxic byproduct was dumped in Opportunity. Today, millions of tons of toxic soils are being removed and dumped once again in Opportunity. As Tyer investigates Opportunity's history, he wrestles with questions of environmental justice and the ethics of burdening one community with an entire region's waste.