Bingham Canyon Copper Mine #1
by Jim West
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Bingham Canyon Copper Mine #1
Artist
Jim West
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Photograph - Photograph
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Bingham Canyon copper mine. Bingham Canyon Mine is an open-pit mining operation south-west of Salt Lake City, Utah, in the Oquirrh Mountains. This mine, the deepest open-pit mine in the world, is owned by the Rio Tinto Group and managed through Kennecott Utah Copper Corporation. It has been in operation since 1906, with the excavations nearly a kilometre deep and four kilometres across. Photographed in July 2015.
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June 28th, 2016
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