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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.
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
Kennecott Utah Copper LLC’s Garfield Smelter Stack is a 1,215 ... equivalent to $101 million in 2023. ... "Copper Mining" article in the Utah History Encyclopedia.
Daybreak is a master-planned community of over 4,000 acres (16 km²) located in South Jordan, Utah. Daybreak was originally owned by Kennecott Land, but as of 2024, it was being developed by the Larry H. Miller Company.
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 of land art.
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Harkers Canyon is located 20 km (12 mi) west-southwest of downtown Salt Lake City, in Salt Lake County, Utah, US. The canyon empties into the Salt Lake Valley from its origin in the Oquirrh Mountains. [1] The canyon is oriented primarily from southwest to northeast, with the middle third of the canyon descending from west to east.
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 ...