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The Bingham Canyon Mine, more commonly known as Kennecott Copper Mine among locals, [3] is an open-pit mining operation extracting a large porphyry copper deposit southwest of Salt Lake City, Utah, in the Oquirrh Mountains.
In 1904, Jackling recommended open pit mining, using steam shovels to load railroad cars. The mine proved to be profitable, and became the "showplace for railroad-pit operations" of low-grade copper deposits. By 1912, Bingham Canyon Mine and the nearby ASARCO smelting operations were "the largest industrial mining complex in the world."
Bingham Canyon was a city formerly located in southwestern Salt Lake County, Utah, United States, in a narrow canyon on the eastern face of the Oquirrh Mountains.The Bingham Canyon area boomed during the first years of the twentieth century, as rich copper deposits in the canyon began to be developed, and at its peak the city had approximately 15,000 residents.
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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 .
East of Salt Lake City in Mountain Dell Canyon, near the junction of State Route 65 and the road to Emigration Canyon (see Utah State Route 239 (1947-1969) 40°46′40″N 111°41′09″W / 40.777778°N 111.685833°W / 40.777778; -111.685833 ( Little Dell
Bingham Canyon in 1942. 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.
Bingham Canyon Mine Visitors Center: Bingham Canyon: Salt Lake: Mining: Overlook and exhibits about the Bingham Canyon Mine, a copper mine Bluff Fort: Bluff: San Juan: Open air: website, original and replica buildings of the town's first settlement Bountiful Davis Art Center: Bountiful: Davis: Art: website, regional community art center ...