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The Bingham Canyon Mine, more commonly known as Kennecott Copper Mine among locals, [3] is an open-pit mining operation extracting a large porphyry copper deposit southwest of Salt Lake City, Utah, in the Oquirrh Mountains. The mine is the largest human-made excavation, and deepest open-pit mine in the world, [4][5] which is considered to have ...
That November, Bingham Canyon's 31 remaining residents voted 11–2 to disincorporate the town, [2] and the last buildings at Bingham were razed in 1972. Today, most of the land once occupied by Bingham has been consumed by the Bingham Canyon Mine. Panorama of Bingham Canyon, 1925. Photo courtesy of Utah State Historical Society. Full-size image
Kennecott operates the Bingham Canyon Mine, one of the largest open-pit copper mines in the world in Bingham Canyon, Salt Lake County, Utah. The company was first formed in 1898 as the Boston Consolidated Mining Company. The current corporation was formed in 1989. The mine and associated smelter produce 1% of the world's copper. [1]
Coordinates: 40°31′21″N 112°09′07″W. The Bingham Canyon Reclamation Project, in Utah, was a 1973 site-specific mine reclamation design that artist Robert Smithson submitted to the mine's management company, Kennecott Copper Corporation. The design re-imagined Bingham Canyon Mine, the world's largest open pit mine, as a monumental work ...
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Morenci mine open pit in 2012. The red rocks in the upper benches, and the outcrops in the background, are in the leached capping. It appears that the bottom of the pit is in the mixed oxide-sulfide zone, and that is also what the two haul trucks in the foreground are carrying. Click to enlarge photo. Bingham Canyon mine in 2005. The gray rocks ...
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The Oquirrh Mountains have been mined for gold, silver, lead, and most famously for copper, as home of the porphyry copper deposit at Bingham Canyon Mine, one of the world's largest open pit mines. As seen from Salt Lake City, the view of the mountain range is dominated by the displaced rock material (known as overburden) dug from the Kennecott ...