Kennecott Utah Copper
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Kennecott Utah Copper LLC, a division of Rio Tinto Group, is a mining, smelting, and refining company. Its corporate headquarters are located in South Jordan, Utah. Kennecott operates the Bingham Cany
Bingham Canyon in 1942
Kennecott Utah Copper's Garfield Smelter, with Interstate 80 in the foreground
Utah Copper Mine, circa 1925, with a view of Main St. in Bingham Canyon. The Auditor lists the total earnings for the mine. Image from the Salt Lake County Auditor Annual Report, 1928.
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
Kennecott Utah Copper
…of Rio Tinto Group, is a mining, smelting, and refining company. Its corporate headquarters are located in South Jordan, Utah. 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…
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