In Butte, the most significant architectural use of dolomite is in the cornices, lintels, sills and nameplate of the 1908 O'Rourke Building, 103 W. Quartz St., due east of the jail.

A new study finds a way to overcome what researchers have dubbed “the dolomite problem” through cycles of undersaturation and supersaturation (Science 2023, DOI: 10.1126/science.adi3690).