Bingham Canyon Copper Mine #2
by Science Photo Library
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Bingham Canyon Copper Mine #2
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Science Photo Library
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Bingham Canyon copper mine. Stepped sides in an open-pit copper mine. This is Bingham Canyon Mine, 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 30th, 2016
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