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Bingham Canyon Copper Extraction Sep 22 2024 The Bingham Canyon Mine commonly known as Kennecott Copper Mine among locals [3] 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 [4] [5] which is considered to have produced copper
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Kennecott has been mining and processing minerals from the rich ore body of the Bingham Canyon Mine since 1903 and is even today one of the top producing mines in the world Our operation also includes a concentrator smelter and refinery Reducing our carbon footprint In 2024 after 75 years of operation Kennecott retired its coal fired power plant in Magna Utah Power for the operation
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From this in pit crusher the ore is moved by conveyer belt partly through a tunnel to the processing plant Rio Tinto is currently working on studies to extend Bingham Canyon s life to 2024
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The Romanian open pit mining project is estimated to require a capital investment of approximately $399m The Rovina Valley project will have a production capacity of more than million ounces Moz of gold and 400 million pounds Mlb of copper over its mine life of years It is estimated to produce 106 000oz of gold and 19Mlb of
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Bingham Canyon Copper Mine UT uses rotary drilling/blasting truck and shovel in pit crushing system 2 to 4 blasts per day largest man made excavation on earth Guidelines that control the mine design process production requirements by period of time cost targets for capital expenditures operating expenditures and unit costs grade targets to meet requirements for plants to achieve a
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In 1903 Enos A Wall and Daniel C Jackling established the Utah Copper Company to mine copper in the area The company constructed a mill at the Copperton and begun mining operations in 1906 Due to the presence of a large but low grade copper ore at the Bingham Canyon the two companies decided to use an open pit mining
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Jul 27 2022The Bingham Canyon pit is miles wide and very deep Mining uses a rotary drilling/blasting shovel/truck in pit crushing system with two to four blasts a day To contain costs management uses the most cost effective drilling loading and haulage equipment and management tools available
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Bingham Canyon s Manefay Landslides and the Future of the Mine By Ken Krahulec On April 10 2024 two massive landslides carried about 145 million tons of waste rock into the bottom of the open pit at Bingham Canyon the largest copper mine in the These are the largest mining induced landslides in history
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In pit crushing and conveying system at Bingham Canyon Mine article{Kammerer1988InpitCA title={In pit crushing and conveying system at Bingham Canyon Mine} author={Brian A Kammerer} journal={International Journal of Surface Mining Reclamation and Environment} year={1988} volume={2} pages={143 147} } Brian A Kammerer Published 1988
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This will require increasing the size of the pit s fleet of large haul trucks over time adding an in pit crusher and another grinding line and supporting equipment at the Copperton concentrator
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Bingham Canyon Open Pit Copper Mine Spectacular See 199 traveller reviews 76 candid photos and great deals for Bingham Canyon UT at Tripadvisor
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At the In pit gyratory crusher approximately 150 000 tons of ore per day reduces to pieces about 10 inches in diameter Then crushed oree is transported the by a five mile conveyer system three miles through a tunnel in the mountain and two miles above ground to the Copperton Concentrator Processing Crush Screen plant Smelting Flotation
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The mine in production since 1903 became the world s first open pit porphyry copper mine in 1906 and is currently about miles in diameter and 3830 feet deep The Bingham Canyon open pit was
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The Bingham Canyon Mine more commonly known as Kennecott Copper Mine among locals 3 is an open pit mining operation extracting a large porphyry copper deposit southwest of Salt Lake City Utah USA in the Oquirrh MountainsThe mine is the largest man made excavation in the world 4 The mine is owned by Rio Tinto Group an international mining and exploration company headquartered in the
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new projects of bingham canyon crusher station The conveyor carries crushed rock from the mobile crusher to theget price Quarry turned landfill embraces in pit crushing solution Apr 05 2024 At this point SBI s crushing operations were being completely managed from within the pit with a mobile circuit comprising the J50 a C44 tracked cone crusher the R155 and a 6m x S190 mobile
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The Bingham Canyon copper mine has been in operations for more than 113 years and is currently the deepest open pit mine in the world In December 2024 the company approved a £ $ investment to extend strip waste rock mining as well as to support infrastructure development in the South Wall Pushback phase two project which will extend the operational life of Kennecott until 2024
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Source Mining Global Rio Tinto Kennecott runs the world s largest single pit Bingham Canyon open pit copper mine This pit stretches three quarters of a mile deep and nearly three miles across at the top The pit is wide enough to stack 12 aircraft careers end to end This mine carries out a sequence of drilling blasting loading hauling
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Kennecott is a fully integrated copper mining project involving the Bingham Canyon poly metallic open pit mine as well as associated processing facilities in Utah US The project is owned and operated by Kennecott Utah Copper a wholly owned subsidiary of Rio Tinto The Bingham Canyon copper mine has been in operations for more than 113 years
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The four semi mobile in pit crushers at FQM s Cobre Panama operation are up and running Vale has upped the production capacity of its huge truckless S11D iron ore operation to 100 Mt/y by 2024 Lastly MMD s innovative Surge Loader is under construction at Rio Tinto s Bingham Canyon copper operation in Utah in the USA And all these are
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Answer 1 of 3 The only real limitation on how deep an open pit can get is the surface area available In order to keep the sloping sides of an open pit stable a certain maximum angle has to be maintained This angle is dependent on a number of factors including how strong the rock is but
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The Utah Copper Company acquired this unit as a prototype for use in their Bingham Canyon Utah copper pit mine 700 proved to be superior to both competing stream and Diesel locomotive types and in time it was joined by 64 other locomotives of this Bingham Canyon Mine The Largest Open Dec 18 2024 0183 32 The Bingham Canyon Mine is one of the largest open pit mines in the world
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The Bingham Canyon pit is now miles wide and very deep Mining uses a rotary drilling/blasting shovel/truck in pit crushing system with two to four blasts a day To contain costs management has been quick to utilize the most cost effective drilling loading and haulage equipment and management tools available
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Put more formally the Bingham Canyon deposit is a classic porphyry copper deposit with economic values of copper molybdenum gold silver and historic lead and zinc production Peripheral copper gold skarns lead zinc fissures and disseminated gold deposits are also associated with this copper porphyry system according to Rio Tinto data
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Kammerer In pit crushing and conveying system at Bingham Canyon Mine Int J Surf Min Reclam Environ 2 2 143 147 1988 CrossRef Google Scholar Radlowski In pit crushing and conveying as an alternative to an all truck system in open pit mines The University of British Columbia Cracow Poland 1988
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Located approximately 25 km southwest of Salt Lake City Utah the Bingham Canyon Cu Au Mo mine is classified as a classical copper porphyry deposit [9 10] Sulfide mineralization is characterized by the typical concentric pattern consisting of a barren core surrounded by successive shells of molybdenum copper gold iron and lead zinc silver in the form of stacked inverted bowls In
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Reclamation research blossoms at Bingham Canyon Rio Tinto Kennecott and Brigham Young University BYU researchers are trialling agriculture based remediation methods at the Bingham Canyon copper mine in Utah US Some 5 900 acres 2 388ha of land at the mine has already been reclaimed Asset Management > Life cycle end of life management
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Rio Tinto s prolific Bingham Canyon Kennecott Copper mine in Utah successfully adopted an IPCC system in the late 1980s replacing a significant and complex rail network and remains in use today Other open pit copper mines with IPCC implementation include the Los Pelambres mine in Chile and the Majdanpek mine in Serbia There are also applications outside metal mines open pit and strip coal
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The five drones at the Bingham Canyon mining operation are the result of a four year effort by the company to boost employee safety and provide enhanced capabilities of surveying one of the world s largest open pit mines The potential we can unlock with these is only limited by the imagination said David van Hees drone programs lead for
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