Bingham Canyon Mine

The Bingham Canyon Mine, more commonly known as Kennecott Copper Mine among locals, is an open-pit mining operation extracting a large porphyry copper deposit southwest of Salt Lake City, Utah, in the Oquirrh Mountains. The mine is the largest human-made excavation, and deepest open-pit mine in the world, which is considered to have produced more copper than any other mine in history – more than 19,000,000 short tons. The mine is owned by Rio Tinto Group, a British-Australian multinational corporation. 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, 2.5 miles (4 km) wide, and covering 1,900 acres. It was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1966 under the name Bingham Canyon Open Pit Copper Mine. The mine experienced a massive landslide in April 2013 and a smaller slide in September 2013.

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  Bingham Canyon Mine ⓘ
  copper mine in Salt Lake County, Utah, United States

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1863 Bingham Canyon Mine

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MIna cobre Bingham

Open-pit workings of the Utah Copper Company, Bingham Canyon1a34852v

Bingham Copper Mine, Utah (76768)

Smelter site 1952 USGS map detail, Bingham Canyon Mine (cropped)

Open-pit workings of the Utah Copper Company 1942

Bingham Copper Mine Panoramic

1952 Topographic map of Bingham Canyon, Utah

Highland Boy Mine, Bingham Canon, Utah C.R. Savage Photo.

Bingham mine 5-10-03

Utah Copper Company open-pit mine workings at Carr Fork, 1942. Photo by Andreas Feininger.

Type	Subtype	Date	Description	Notes	Source
link	page		National Register of Historic Places listed place page@		Wikidata
link	page		National Register of Historic Places page@		Wikidata
link	page		Sketchfab page@		Wikidata
site	mine	1863	Bingham Canyon Mine	opencast mine, copper mine	Wikidata
commons	image		MIna cobre Bingham		Commons
commons	image		Open-pit workings of the Utah Copper Company, Bingham Canyon1a34852v		Commons
commons	image		Bingham Copper Mine, Utah (76768)		Commons
commons	image		Smelter site 1952 USGS map detail, Bingham Canyon Mine (cropped)		Commons
commons	image		Open-pit workings of the Utah Copper Company 1942		Commons
commons	image		Bingham Copper Mine Panoramic		Commons
commons	image		1952 Topographic map of Bingham Canyon, Utah		Commons
commons	image		Highland Boy Mine, Bingham Canon, Utah C.R. Savage Photo.		Commons
commons	image		Bingham mine 5-10-03		Commons
commons	image		Utah Copper Company open-pit mine workings at Carr Fork, 1942. Photo by Andreas Feininger.		Commons