The Bingham Canyon Mine, also known as the Kennecott Copper Mine, is an open-pit mining operation extracting a large porphyry copper deposit southwest of Salt Lake City, Utah, in the Oquirrh Mountains. Bingham Canyon Mine is the largest man-made excavation in the world, and is visible with the naked eye from space. The Company performed all the infrastructure and continues to perform contract mining at the site.
Bingham Canyon Mine
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