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Kennecott's Bingham Canyon Copper Mine is now open for public tours for the first time since one of the largest non-volcanic landslides in history crippled mining operations in 2013. 2News tagged ...
The Bingham Canyon History Facebook page's membership, Eldon Bray says, is largely made up of, ... Merritt plans to invite Lark old-timers to the Sept. 30 Utah State History Conference in West Valley ...
In spring 2013, observation systems at Utah's Bingham Canyon copper mine detected ground movement in a hillslope surrounding the mine's open pit. Out of caution, mine managers evacuated personnel ...
Utah mine landslide 1 of largest in history ... Two-thirds of the floor of the nearly mile-deep pit at Bingham Canyon Mine was covered by the dirt and rocks that partially buried several dump trucks.
BINGHAM CANYON — New studies released are stating that the landslide at Kennecott's Bingham Canyon Mine actually triggered a dozen small earthquakes. Scientists at the University of Utah ...
Since their initial immigration to Utah at the start of the 20th century, Utah's Greek population had already grown to 4,000 by 1910 and was primarily centered around the smelters, mines and mills of ...
BINGHAM CANYON, Utah — For the first time in six years, the public can get an up-close look at the Rio Tinto Kennecott Bingham Canyon Mine. It comes after a massive landslide closed the visitors ...
Utah jumped to second in a federal database of states’ total toxic chemical releases – a rise mostly attributable to the Bingham Canyon Mine, according to the EPA.
The April 10, 2013, landslide at Rio Tinto-Kennecott Utah Copper's Bingham Canyon mine contains enough debris to bury New York City's Central Park 66 feet deep, according to a new University of ...
Kennecott's Bingham Canyon Mine produces thousands of tons of ore a year. Satellite photos show what that means for mine growth over almost 40 years.