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Kennecott, also known as Kennicott and Kennecott Mines, is an abandoned mining camp in the Copper River Census Area in the U.S. state of Alaska that was the center of activity for several copper mines. [3]
The copper operations at Bingham Canyon Mine are managed through Kennecott Utah Copper Corporation which operates the mine, a concentrator plant, a smelter, and a refinery. The mine has been in production since 1906, and has resulted in the creation of a pit over 0.75 miles (1,210 m) deep, [ 5 ] 2.5 miles (4 km) wide, and covering 1,900 acres ...
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 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.
The Kennecott Copper Mine was the largest copper mine in the world at some time. The mine operated from 1911 to 1938 in the town that is known now as McCarthy in Wrangell St. Elias National Park . In the spring of 1915, Guggenheim and Morgan formed the Kennecott Copper Corporation .
Underground mine producing nickel and copper concentrates 18 (2018) [8] 15 Phoenix Lander County, Nevada: Newmont Mining Corporation: Gold-copper ore, concentrated and leached 16 (2018) [6] 16 Lisbon Valley San Juan County, Utah: Lisbon Valley Mining Company Copper ore, open pit, heap leached 10–15 (2018) [9] 17 Miami: Gila County, Arizona ...
Flambeau Mine map. The Flambeau Mine was an open pit mine of a copper-gold deposit near the Flambeau River, south of Ladysmith, Wisconsin, United States. It was mined by a subsidiary of Kennecott Minerals between 1993 and 1997, and returned to a fairly natural state after. As of 2022, it was "the only example of a metallic mine that was ...
Kennecott Utah Copper to close the Bingham Canyon Mine Visitors Center for winter -- Edgewise ( talk ) 23:18, 15 March 2013 (UTC) [ reply ] I really don't care what the name of the article is, but I grew up in Utah, and I can say for a fact that the WP:COMMONNAME among locals is Kennecott Copper mine, in 15 years of living there, I also never ...