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    The Bingham Canyon Mine, more commonly known as Kennecott Copper Mine among locals, is an open-pit mining operation extracting a large porphyry copper...
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    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...
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    of the local mines eventually proved to be the town's undoing, however: by the mid-twentieth century, the huge open-pit Bingham Canyon Mine began encroaching...
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  • concentrations of white-plastic greenhouses too. The Bingham Canyon Mine, more commonly known as Kennecott Copper Mine, is an open-pit mining operation extracting...
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  • near Salt Lake City, Utah, the Bingham Canyon Mine (Kennecott Utah Copper/Rio Tinto) is one of the largest open pit mines in the world and one of the world's...
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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...
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  • Bingham Canyon mine, 100 workers evacuated, archived from the original on 2013-09-27 Discovery Channel Canada, The Daily Planet: Bingham Canyon Mine Cleanup...
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    1906 began excavating. From the start, the Bingham Canyon Mine was one of the leading copper-producing mines in the world, and returned a good profit mining...
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    1910. It is the third oldest active open pit copper mine in the world after the Bingham Canyon Mine and Chuquicamata.[citation needed] An Apache Indian...
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    Berkeley Pit, Butte, Montana Bingham Canyon Mine, Utah Lavender Pit, Bisbee, Arizona Morenci, Arizona Pebble Mine, Alaska Safford Mine, Safford, Arizona San...
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    the Bingham Canyon Mine with I-15 in Sandy and the ski areas of Little Cottonwood Canyon. The road begins at the gate to the Bingham Canyon Mine and heads...
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    economic to mine and ship to market. All copper mining was done by underground methods until the early 20th century. After the Bingham Canyon mine in Utah...
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    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...
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    in the fledgling copper mining operation in Bingham canyon, which later became the great Bingham Canyon Mine. He also developed silver mining in the San...
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    740 ft). [citation needed] The deepest open-pit mine in the world is Bingham Canyon Mine in Bingham Canyon, Utah, United States, at over 1,200 metres (3...
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  • pioneered the exploitation of low-grade porphyry copper ores at the Bingham Canyon Mine, Utah. Born near Appleton City, Missouri, he was an orphan at the...
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  • with the state's mining boom (including the Bingham Canyon Mine, among the world's largest open pit mines), companies attracted large numbers of immigrants...
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    metres (2,790 ft) makes it the second deepest open-pit mine in the world, after Bingham Canyon Mine in Utah, United States. There are several versions of...
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    with the state's mining boom (including the Bingham Canyon Mine, among the world's largest open pit mines), companies attracted large numbers of immigrants...
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    the Bingham Canyon Mine, which contains vast deposits of copper and silver, was developed as the most productive of the county's mines. The mine, located...
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    ten largest open-pit mines in 2015. 1. Bingham Canyon Mine - Utah, USA 2. Mir Mine - Eastern Siberia, Russia 3. Super Pit Gold Mine - Australia 4. Big Hole...
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  • managed by the Kennecott Utah Copper Corporation and connected the Bingham Canyon Mine with its smelter at Garfield. The rail line has been replaced by...
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    2012 Summer Olympics were supplied from the Bingham Canyon Mine located in Utah and the Oyu Tolgoi mine in Mongolia, which caused uproar among many activist...
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    Retrieved January 15, 2017. Dave (2013-04-26). "An update on the Bingham Canyon mine landslide". Blogs.agu.org. Archived from the original on 4 May 2014...
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    Climax Henderson Questa Bagdad Sierrita Thompson Creek Mission Bingham Canyon Molybdenum mining in the United States produced 65,500 metric tons of molybdenum...
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    – former copper mine in Butte, Montana; now the largest and most expensive Superfund site in history Bingham Canyon Mine – copper mine in Salt Lake County...
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    provided a strong source of income with Silver King Coalition Mines, Geneva Steel, Bingham Canyon Mine, and oil refineries, Salt Lake City's modern economy is...
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    beta-uranophane, weeksite, and Schröckingerite. The Bingham Canyon Mine in Salt Lake County, a large porphyry copper mine, recovered 120,000 to 150,000 lb (54,000...
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    in which it is not the principal product. Large copper mines, such as the Bingham Canyon mine in Utah, often recover considerable amounts of gold and...
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