Bingham Canyon Mine
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Bingham Canyon Mine is a massive open-pit copper mine in Utah, USA, renowned as one of the largest man-made excavations in the world.
Observed surface forms (1)
| Surface form | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Bingham Canyon | 1 |
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
copper mine
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man-made excavation ⓘ open-pit mine ⓘ |
| annualProduction | hundreds of thousands of tons of copper ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| depth |
over 1200 meters
ⓘ
over 3900 feet ⓘ |
| diameter |
about 2.5 miles
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about 4 kilometers ⓘ |
| discovered | 1848 ⓘ |
| employerInRegion | thousands of workers historically ⓘ |
| environmentalIssue |
groundwater contamination concerns
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waste rock and tailings management ⓘ |
| hasMiningMethod | open-pit mining ⓘ |
| hasPitShape | stepped benches ⓘ |
| hasProcessingFacility |
concentrator
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refinery ⓘ smelter ⓘ |
| hasVisitorCenter | Bingham Canyon Mine Visitor Center NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasWasteRockVolume | billions of tons of waste rock removed ⓘ |
| heritageDesignation | National Historic Landmark (district) components nearby ⓘ |
| knownFor |
being one of the largest man-made excavations in the world
ⓘ
large-scale open-pit copper mining ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Oquirrh Mountains
NERFINISHED
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Utah ⓘ |
| locatedInAdministrativeTerritory | Salt Lake County NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInValley | Bingham Canyon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| namedAfter |
Erastus Bingham
NERFINISHED
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Thomas Bingham NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| near | Salt Lake City NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| operatedBy | Kennecott Utah Copper NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| operator | Rio Tinto Kennecott NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| oreType | porphyry copper deposit ⓘ |
| ownedBy | Rio Tinto Group NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf |
Kennecott Copper operations
NERFINISHED
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Oquirrh Mountain mining district NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| previouslyServedBy | rail haulage systems ⓘ |
| product |
copper
ⓘ
gold ⓘ molybdenum ⓘ silver ⓘ sulfuric acid ⓘ |
| significantEvent | 2013 landslide ⓘ |
| significantEventDate | April 10, 2013 ⓘ |
| significantEventType | massive slope failure ⓘ |
| startOfMiningActivity | 1863 ⓘ |
| startOfOpenPitOperations | 1906 ⓘ |
| transportSystem | truck-and-shovel haulage ⓘ |
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