The Bingham Canyon mine at Kennecott Utah Copper Corporation (KUC) has been operating for over 100 years. Over time certain operating facets became accepted as fact. This tribal knowledge became the excuses for poor performance without quantitative evidence. In 2005, KUC received a Mineral Liberation Analyser (MLA) and …
The mining districts of the Wasatch mountains are perhaps the best places to go rockhounding in the Salt Lake area. The mines are almost too numerous to count but offer a large selection of rocks and minerals. Some of the more common specimens found in the area are cerussite, bornite, azurite, malachite, pyrite, and galena.
Bingham Canyon Mine dependent on hydrothermally altered and mineralised plutonic body referred to as Bingham Stock. The mineralisation that formed the deposit is mainly chalcopyrite and bornite.
The Bingham Canyon Mine, also known as the Kennecott Copper Mine, is one of the largest and most productive mines in the world. Located in the Oquirrh Mountains in Utah, this open-pit mining operation has been extracting porphyry copper deposits for over a century. What began as a small underground mine in the late 1800s has since grown …
Our Kennecott mine has operated for 120 years, providing domestically-sourced copper to the United States and beyond. As we look towards the energy transition, Kennecott will continue to play an important role by responsibly mining and smelting this critical mineral for our electric vehicles, our renewable energy, and numerous other vital applications.
The Bingham Canyon porphyry copper deposit has been a world class producer of copper and other metals since 1904. Sulfide mineral distribution is typical of many porphyry copper deposits, with an outer, low-grade zone of pyrite and chalcopyrite and an inner zone of chalcopyrite. Molybdenite occurs in the center of the deposit.
Since 1988, more than $200,000 has been donated to 70 local charities. (Deseret News, April 12, 1993) May 1996. The visitors center at the Bingham Canyon observation point was enlarged by 1,600 square feet and 12 new exhibits and a theater were added. Over 176,000 visitors viewed the Bingham mine during 1996.
Mineral: Chalcopyrite. Mineral Origin: Bingham Canyon, UT. Primary Commodity: Copper. Primary Commodity Uses: Copper is used primarily in electronics, mostly in building construction and industrial electronics.
The Bingham Canyon Mine, more commonly known as Kennecott Copper Mine among locals, is an open-pit mining operation extracting a large porphyry copper deposit southwest of Salt Lake City, Utah, in the Oquirrh Mountains. The mine is the largest man-made excavation, and deepest open-pit mine in the world, which is considered to …
The Bingham Canyon deposit occurs at latitude 40° 13' N, longitude 112° 09' Wat 2100 m altitude, in Salt Lake County, Utah, 35 km south-west of Salt Lake City. Geographical Setting The copper deposit is situated almost at the head of Bingham Canyon, a steep-sided valley, one of many that have been formed down the sides of the Oquirrh Mountains.
Comment (General): The Carr Fork mine was developed on section of the Carr Fork/North Ore Shoot skarn deposits which are part of the Bingham Canyon porphyry system in the Central Oquirrh Mountains, near Sat Lake City, northern Utah, USA. They occur in the immediate contact zone of the Bingham Stock, adjacent to the Bingham Canyon open pit.
Fluid inclusion microthermometry and laser-ablation ICPMS microanalysis are combined with geological and textural observations to reconstruct the spatial and temporal evolution of magmatic fluids that formed the subvolcanic porphyry Cu-Au (-Mo) ore deposit at Bingham Canyon, Utah. The Bingham Canyon orebody is exposed over ~1.6 km …
