The Bingham Canyon Mine disposed of or released 132.4 million pounds of substances tracked through the TRI program. That was around 72% of the total releases in Utah.

A southern Utah copper mine has restarted operations in an arrangement with Rio Tinto Kennecott, hiring workers as it expands ...

Utah has the fourth most toxic chemical releases of any state in the nation, according to U.S. Environmental Protection Agency data from 2022. About 80% of those releases come from the same place.

Production of copper and other metals will continue at Utah’s Bingham Canyon Mine through at least 2032 under a $1.5 billion investment announced Tuesday by mine owner Rio Tinto.. The investment ...

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 ...

BINGHAM CANYON MINE, Utah — Kennecott Utah Copper announced Tuesday the slide at their Bingham Canyon Mine moved more than 165 million tons of material, and they estimate their production of ...

Bingham Canyon Mine is the largest man-made excavation in the world. It has been in production since 1906, and features a pit almost one kilometre deep and 4km wide.

Workers mine at Utah Copper Company's Bingham Canyon Mine on July 18, 1907. (Photo: Utah Division of State History) It became the first open pit copper mine in the world a year later.

MAGNA — A "significant" landslide occurred Wednesday night at the Bingham Canyon Mine, Kennecott Utah Copper officials confirmed. The slide occurred around 9:30 p.m. in the northeast section of ...

high res (1.2 M) low res (86 K) . ISS015-E-29867 (20 Sept. 2007) — Bingham Canyon Mine, Utah is featured in this image photographed by an Expedition 15 crewmember on the International Space Station.