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KENNECOTT UTAH COPPER

You could stack two Sears Towers on top of each other and still not reach the top of the mine.



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Amazing Facts About the Mine...

Kennecott's Bingham Canyon Mine has produced more copper than any mine in history -- about 17 million tons.
The mine is 2-1/2 miles across at the top and 3/4 of a mile deep. You could stack two Sears Towers on top of each other and still not reach the top of the mine.
The mine is so big, it can be seen by the space shuttle astronauts as they pass over the United States.
By 2015, the mine will be at least 500 feet deeper than it is now.
If you stretched out all the roads in the open pit mine, you'd have 500 miles of roadway -- enough to reach from Salt Lake City to Denver.

About the Equipment...

The giant electric shovels in the mine can scoop up as much as 98 tons in a single bite -- about the weight of 50 cars.
The newest shovels each cost $8 million and weigh 2.5 million pounds.
The trucks that haul the ore are larger than many houses and weigh more than a jumbo jet. They stand over 23 feet tall and can carry from 255 to 360 tons of rock.
The truck driver rides about 18 feet above the ground -- nearly two stories high.
Each tire on these big trucks costs from $18,000 to $26,000 and lasts just 9 months.
The crusher in the pit takes in about 140,000 tons of ore every day and grinds it into chunks smaller than the size of a basketball.
At 1,215 feet tall, the Kennecott smokestack is the highest structure in Utah.

About Mining in General...

Every deposit of ore in the world is unique. No two ore bodies are alike.
More than 320,000 people work directly in mining throughout the United States.
Only about one tenth of one percent of the land in Utah has been touched by mining.

About the Minerals We Use...

The first known use of copper dates back 10,000 years.
To make all the pennies, nickels, dimes, and quarters in 1999, the U.S. Mint used about 36,000 tons of copper.
That's about as much refined copper as Kennecott produces every 41 days.
Each American uses more than 40,000 pounds of new minerals every year.
It takes about 15 different minerals to make a car ... 35 different minerals to make a television ... 30 minerals to make a computer ... and as many as 42 different minerals to make a telephone.




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I wonder how close Copper King is to Kennecott?? Time will tell..We need some cold hard facts



The Pit Grows Deeper

In 1936, Kennecott Copper Corporation bought Utah Copper Company and later changed it to the Utah Copper Division. But work at the mine continued as usual.

In the 1940s, the company built a new 100,000-kilowatt power plant and constructed two rail haulage tunnels as "The Pit" got deeper.

In 1942, Daniel Jackling retired as president of Utah Copper. He has been called one of the world's greatest engineers because he envisioned mining on such a grand scale and revolutionized the industry. Plus, he did not let the doubts of others get in the way of his vision.

In the 1950s, Kennecott constructed its own refinery and bought the nearby ASARCO smelter. That gave Kennecott a complete production line -- from mining through concentrating, smelting and refining.

In the 1960s, Kennecott's Utah Copper Division spent $100 million on new haulage trucks, large drills, and bigger electric shovels.

Further modernization projects continued in the late 1980's. By 1988 Kennecott had built an ore crusher right in the pit. This meant that the trucks could now dump the ore into the crusher without having to send it to a reload facility for it's loading into railcars for transportation. The crushed ore is transported by conveyor belts to the new Copperton Concentrator five miles away.

This has made the operation much more efficient and helped make Kennecott Utah Copper one of the lowest-cost producers of copper in the world. More efficient mining of copper also helps keep the cost of copper down for the consumer.

Each addition to it's operations, such as gigantic shovels that can scoop up 98 tons of rock in a single bite, and huge 240 ton capacity haulage trucks meant that Kennecott Utah Copper could process larger amounts of ore every day.

Back in 1906, the steam shovels of the Utah Copper Company removed 100,000 tons of material per month. Today, Kennecott Utah Copper removes 500,000 tons of material every day! Kennecott's Bingham Canyon Mine has produced more copper than any mine in history -- more than 17 million tons. Plus, it has produced 23 million ounces of gold, 190 million ounces of silver, and 890 million pounds of molybdenum.The Pit is now about 3,960 feet deep, and still growing. Engineers estimate that it can go about another 650 feet deeper. At that point, it would cost too much to haul the ore out of the mine and Kennecott Utah Copper couldn't make a profit.




The Legendary Pit
Mining Begins at Bingham Canyon
The Mountain Disappears
The Pit Grows Deeper
A Picture History of the Growing Pit

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Next time you flick on a light switch, watch television, drive your car, or use your toaster, think about copper. Copper is used in everything from plumbing and wiring to roofing ... from heavy machinery to portable CD players ... from coins to blue fireworks.

As the second largest copper producer in the United States, Kennecott Utah Copper produces over 17% of America's copper output. The computer you're sitting in front of right now contains copper wire, it may have come from Kennecott.

That copper comes from the Bingham Canyon Mine, the worlds first and largest open pit copper mine, located about 28 miles southwest of Salt Lake City, Utah.

Every year, Kennecott produces about 300,000 tons of copper cathode-- along with 400,000 ounces of gold, 4 million ounces of silver, about 24 million pounds of molybdenum, and about 1 million tons of sulfuric acid, a by-product of the smelting process, which is used in farming and industry.

We sell our products to a broad base of copper fabricators and major bullion dealers throughout the United States. Eventually, some of this copper may find its way into the coins in your pocket ... your telephone, fax machine, or refrigerator ... the cooking utensils in your kitchen ... and the appliances you rely on.



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Amazing Facts About the Mine...

The mine is so big, it can be seen by the space shuttle astronauts as they pass over the United States.


how close is copper king???



Kennecott's Bingham Canyon Mine has produced more copper than any mine in history -- about 17 million tons.
The mine is 2-1/2 miles across at the top and 3/4 of a mile deep. You could stack two Sears Towers on top of each other and still not reach the top of the mine.
The mine is so big, it can be seen by the space shuttle astronauts as they pass over the United States.
By 2015, the mine will be at least 500 feet deeper than it is now.
If you stretched out all the roads in the open pit mine, you'd have 500 miles of roadway -- enough to reach from Salt Lake City to Denver.


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