Bingham Canyon Mine
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The Bingham Canyon Mine, more commonly known as Kennecott Copper Mine among locals, is an open-pit mining operation extracting a large porphyry copper deposit southwest of Salt Lake City, Utah, in the
Mine in 2003
Page 102 from the Salt Lake County Recorder Mining Abstracts, Book A, showing the Jordan S.M.Co mining claim in 1863.
Bingham Canyon Mine, November 1942. Carr Fork Canyon as seen from "G" bridge.
The Bingham Canyon Mine, an aerial photograph taken June 2018
Chuquicamata
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Chuquicamata is the largest open pit copper mine in terms of excavated volume in the world. It is located in the north of Chile, just outside Calama, at 2,850 m above sea level. It is 215 km northeast
Bingham Canyon Mine
…Bingham Canyon Reclamation Project Chuquicamata, a similarly sized copper mine in Chile. (1994) "Copper Mining" article in the Utah History Encyclopedia. The article was written by Philip F. Notarianni…
The pit viewed from entrance
Haul truck in Chuquicamata in 2016.
Chuquicamata ghost town
Chuquicamata in 1925