Bingham Canyon copper mine. Stepped sides of an open-pit copper mine with built-in roads being used by mining excavators and trucks. 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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Credit: | Science Photo Library / West, Jim |
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