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The Emerald Pit No. 1
Berkeley Pit, Butte, Montana, USA
46.03, -112.50 · Captured 2026-03-20
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On 20 March 2026, the Sentinel-2 satellite looked down on Butte, Montana, and found the Berkeley Pit: a retired open-pit copper mine whose flooded main basin reads pale grey-white from orbit, ringed by rust and tan terracing. Beside it, a smaller active retention pond glows an almost unnatural emerald green — mineral chemistry doing what no dye could. The city grid of Butte itself sits just below, an ordinary town beside an extraordinary hole.
