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Kennecott Utah Copper LLC (KUC), 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 Canyon Mine , one of the largest open-pit copper mines in the world in Bingham Canyon , Salt Lake County , Utah.
Factory Butte Landscape, with Factory Butte in the distance, September 2008. Factory Butte in Wayne County, Utah, is a 6,302-foot (1,921 m) summit in the Upper Blue Hills [1] in northern Wayne County, Utah, United States, [2] [3] about 12 miles (19 km) northwest of Hanksville and about 14 miles (23 km) east of Capitol Reef National Park boundary.
The East Tintic Mountains are a mountain range in central Juab, Utah, and Tooele counties in Utah, United States on the east margin of the Great Basin just west of the Wasatch Front about 50 miles (80 km) south-southeast of Salt Lake City. [1] The community of Eureka is an old mining town near the center of the range.
Hanksville is a small town in Wayne County, Utah, United States, at the junction of State Routes 24 and 95.The population was 219 at the 2010 census. [4]Situated in the Colorado Plateau's cold desert ecological region, the town is just south of the confluence of the Fremont River and Muddy Creek, which together form the Dirty Devil River, which then flows southeast to the Colorado River.
The 21 separate mining operations in existence by 1911 were consolidated into two in 1970: Kennecott and The Anaconda Minerals Company. In 1985 open-pit mining operations were halted by Kennecott's Utah Copper. In 1986, Kennecott discovered gold in nearby Barney's Canyon. [18] The Bingham Canyon Mine, an aerial photograph taken June 2018
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Knight Foundry, also known as Knight's Foundry and Shops, is a cast iron foundry and machine shop in Sutter Creek, California.It was established in 1873 to supply heavy equipment and repair facilities to the gold mines and timber industry of the Mother Lode.
The Henry Mountains Bison Herd was created in 1941 when 18 bison, including three bulls, were moved from Yellowstone National Park and released near the Dirty Devil River, south and east of Hanksville, Utah. An additional five bulls were added to the population in 1942.