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  • Senior Design Study Potential for Butte Mine Waste to be Used in Increasingly Popular 'Green' Concrete

    AMANDA BADOVINAC, Montana Tech|Mar 8, 2023

    Five Montana Tech seniors have spent much of the past year working through a senior design project where they test whether or not waste mine tailings from the Yankee Doodle Tailings Pond could be used in a growing environmentally friendly industry. "Green" concrete reduces the amount of cement needed by substituting other materials. In 2022 it was estimated that 7-8% of global carbon dioxide emissions originated from the production of cement. In the students' experiment, they created concrete...

  • A Home Away From Home - reprinted with permission from M New Magazine

    Amanda Badovinac, Publisher M News Magazine|Jun 16, 2021

    If only the walls in Rod and Mary Lee James' house could talk, they would tell many stories of all the Orediggers who walked through the front door for over 40 years. The dinners, Sunday night football watch parties, and even a holiday or two have been highlights for so many. Rod and Mary Lee's ranch home in Whitehall, Montana, is filled with pictures of their family intertwined with images of Orediggers who have become honorary Jameses. Many student-athletes have been welcomed with open arms...