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Kennecott Utah Copper

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Kennecott Utah Copper LLC (KUC), a division of Rio Tinto Group, is a mining, smelting, and refining company. [1]

48 relations: Albert Guay, Andes, Aquifer, Arizona, Asarco, Bingham Canyon Mine, Bingham Canyon, Utah, Boies Penrose, BP, Charles L. Tutt Sr., Copper, Copperton, Utah, Daniel C. Jackling, Daybreak (community), Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad, Dual-listed company, El Teniente, Garfield County, Utah, Groundwater, Groundwater pollution, Guggenheim family, Harkers Canyon (Salt Lake County, Utah), Kennecott Land, Kennecott Utah Copper rail line, Kennecott, Alaska, Magna, Utah, Mining, Nevada, New Mexico, Open-pit mining, Oquirrh Mountains, Quebec, Refining, Reverse osmosis, Rio Tinto Group, Robert Kennicott, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, Samuel Newhouse, Smelting, South Jordan, Utah, Spencer Penrose, Standard Oil of Ohio, The University of Utah Press, United States, United States Environmental Protection Agency, Utah, World War II.

Albert Guay

Joseph-Albert Guay (23 September 1918 – 12 January 1951) was a Canadian mass murderer, who on 9 September 1949, killed 23 people aboard Canadian Pacific Air Lines Flight 108 near Sault-au-Cochon, Quebec using a dynamite time bomb.

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Andes

The Andes or Andean Mountains (Cordillera de los Andes) are the longest continental mountain range in the world.

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Aquifer

An aquifer is an underground layer of water-bearing permeable rock, rock fractures or unconsolidated materials (gravel, sand, or silt).

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Arizona

Arizona (Hoozdo Hahoodzo; Alĭ ṣonak) is a U.S. state in the southwestern region of the United States.

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Asarco

ASARCO LLC (American Smelting and Refining Company) is a mining, smelting, and refining company based in Tucson, Arizona, which mines and processes primarily copper.

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Bingham Canyon Mine

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.

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Bingham Canyon, Utah

Bingham Canyon was a city formerly located in southwestern Salt Lake County, Utah, United States, in a narrow canyon on the eastern face of the Oquirrh Mountains.

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Boies Penrose

Boies Penrose (November 1, 1860 – December 31, 1921) was an American lawyer and Republican politician from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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BP

BP plc (stylised as bp), formerly British Petroleum, is a British multinational oil and gas company headquartered in London, England.

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Charles L. Tutt Sr.

Charles Leaming Tutt Sr. (14 February, 1864 – 21 January, 1909) and his descendants are famous in Colorado Springs.

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Copper

Copper is a chemical element with symbol Cu (from cuprum) and atomic number 29.

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Copperton, Utah

Copperton is a CDP and township in Salt Lake County, Utah, United States, located at the mouth of Bingham Canyon, about 17 miles southwest of Salt Lake City.

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Daniel C. Jackling

Daniel Cowan Jackling (August 14, 1869 – March 13, 1956), was an American mining and metallurgical engineer who pioneered the exploitation of low-grade porphyry copper ores at the Bingham Canyon Mine, Utah.

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Daybreak (community)

Daybreak is a master-planned community over 4,000 acres (16 km²) in size that began construction in 2004 under the direction of land development company Kennecott Land (a subsidiary of Rio Tinto Group) in South Jordan, Utah.

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Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad

The Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad, often shortened to Rio Grande, D&RG or D&RGW, formerly the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad, was an American Class I railroad company.

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Dual-listed company

A dual-listed company or DLC is a corporate structure in which two corporations function as a single operating business through a legal equalization agreement, but retain separate legal identities and stock exchange listings.

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El Teniente

El Teniente ("The Lieutenant") is an underground copper mine in the Chilean commune of Machalí in Cachapoal Province, Libertador General Bernardo O'Higgins Region, near the town of Sewell, above mean sea level in the Andes.

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Garfield County, Utah

Garfield County is a county located in south central Utah, United States.

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Groundwater

Groundwater is the water present beneath Earth's surface in soil pore spaces and in the fractures of rock formations.

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Groundwater pollution

Groundwater pollution (also called groundwater contamination) occurs when pollutants are released to the ground and make their way down into groundwater.

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Guggenheim family

The Guggenheim family is an American family known for their involvement in the mining industry and later in philanthropy.

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Harkers Canyon (Salt Lake County, Utah)

Harkers Canyon is located west-southwest of downtown Salt Lake City, in Salt Lake County, Utah, USA.

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Kennecott Land

Kennecott Land, a subsidiary of Rio Tinto Group, is an American land development company formed in 2001 and based in South Jordan, Utah in the United States.

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Kennecott Utah Copper rail line

The Kennecott Utah Copper rail line was an electric railroad in Salt Lake County, Utah.

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Kennecott, Alaska

Kennecott, also known as Kennicott and Kennecott Mines, is an abandoned mining camp in the Valdez-Cordova Census Area in the U.S. state of Alaska that was the center of activity for several copper mines.

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Magna, Utah

Magna is a census-designated place (CDP) and township in Salt Lake County, Utah, United States.

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Mining

Mining is the extraction of valuable minerals or other geological materials from the earth, usually from an orebody, lode, vein, seam, reef or placer deposit.

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Nevada

Nevada (see pronunciations) is a state in the Western, Mountain West, and Southwestern regions of the United States of America.

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New Mexico

New Mexico (Nuevo México, Yootó Hahoodzo) is a state in the Southwestern Region of the United States of America.

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Open-pit mining

Open-pit, open-cast or open cut mining is a surface mining technique of extracting rock or minerals from the earth by their removal from an open pit or borrow.

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Oquirrh Mountains

The Oquirrh Mountains is a mountain range that runs north-south for approximately 30 miles (50 km) to form the west side of Utah's Salt Lake Valley, separating it from Tooele Valley.

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Quebec

Quebec (Québec)According to the Canadian government, Québec (with the acute accent) is the official name in French and Quebec (without the accent) is the province's official name in English; the name is.

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Refining

Refining (also perhaps called by the mathematical term affining) is the process of purification of a (1) substance or a (2) form.

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Reverse osmosis

Reverse osmosis (RO) is a water purification technology that uses a semipermeable membrane to remove ions, molecules and larger particles from drinking water.

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Rio Tinto Group

Rio Tinto Group is an Australian-British multinational and one of the world's largest metals and mining corporations.

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Robert Kennicott

Robert Kennicott (November 13, 1835 – May 13, 1866) was an American naturalist and herpetologist.

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Salt Lake City

Salt Lake City (often shortened to Salt Lake and abbreviated as SLC) is the capital and the most populous municipality of the U.S. state of Utah.

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Salt Lake County, Utah

Salt Lake County is a county located in the U.S. state of Utah.

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Samuel Newhouse

Samuel Newhouse (October 18, 1853 – September 22, 1930) was a Utah entrepreneur and mining magnate.

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Smelting

Smelting is a process of applying heat to ore in order to melt out a base metal.

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South Jordan, Utah

South Jordan is a city in south central Salt Lake County, Utah, United States.

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Spencer Penrose

Spencer "Speck" Penrose (November 2, 1865–December 7, 1939) was a businessman, entrepreneur, venture capitalist and philanthropist at the turn of the 20th century.

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Standard Oil of Ohio

Standard Oil of Ohio or Sohio was an American oil company, and the earliest component of the original Standard Oil company founded by John D. Rockefeller.

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The University of Utah Press

The University of Utah Press is the independent publishing branch of the University of Utah and is a division of the J. Willard Marriott Library.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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United States Environmental Protection Agency

The Environmental Protection Agency is an independent agency of the United States federal government for environmental protection.

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Utah

Utah is a state in the western United States.

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World War II

World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kennecott_Utah_Copper

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