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Kennecott has now assembled 59 of what will be a fleet of 72 trucks at the Bingham Copper Mine. To enter the truck, you can't just open a door and get in the driver's seat.
A worker dumping rocks at the Bingham Canyon Mine southwest of Salt Lake City tumbled down a 300-foot embankment in his truck Sunday night after the earth below gave way.
Kennecott's Bingham Canyon Copper Mine is now open for public tours for the first time since one of the largest non-volcanic landslides in history crippled mining operations in 2013. 2News tagged ...
The average person uses nearly 30 pounds of copper every year, and Kennecott's Bingham Canyon Mine has produced more than 19 million tons of the metal, or more than any other mine in history.
Rio Tinto's Bingham Canyon mine is going to start mining underground after a century of open pit mining. The demand for copper is rising, and Kennecott expects to extend the life of the mine with ...
The trucks crawl along at 10 to 15 mph, carrying basketball-size rocks to a 3.5-mile conveyor, which takes them out of the massive hole that is Kennecott’s Bingham Canyon Mine, Utah’s largest ...