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Bingham Canyon Mine

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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. [1]

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Archibald Gardner

Archibald Gardner (September 2, 1814 – February 8, 1902) was a 19th-century pioneer and businessman who with his knowledge of lumber, and grist mills helped establish communities in Alvinston, Ontario; West Jordan, Utah; and Star Valley, Wyoming.

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Automated mining

Automated mining involves the removal of human labor from the mining process.

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Autonomous Solutions

Autonomous Solutions, Inc. (also known by the acronym ASI) was founded in 2000 as a spinoff from Utah State University and is headquartered in Petersboro, Utah.

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Çöpler mine

The Çöpler mine is one of the largest gold mines in Turkey and in the world.

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Bailey J. Santistevan Sr.

Bailey Joseph Santistevan Sr. (Sept. 4, 1901 - June 15, 1954) - was a baseball coach who was born in Las Animas, Colorado on Sept.

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Bingham

Bingham may refer to.

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Bingham Canyon Reclamation Project

The Bingham Canyon Reclamation Project, in Utah, was a 1973 site-specific mine reclamation design that artist Robert Smithson submitted to the mine's management company, Kennecott Copper Corporation.

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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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Birds of Prey (1973 film)

Birds of Prey is a 1973 television movie starring David Janssen, Ralph Meeker, and Elayne Heilveil.

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Caterpillar 797

The Caterpillar 797 is a series of off-highway, ultra class, two-axle, mechanical powertrain haul trucks developed and manufactured in the United States by Caterpillar Inc. specifically for high-production mining and heavy-duty construction applications worldwide.

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Chino mine

The Chino Mine ("Chino" is Spanish for the "Chinaman"), also known as the Santa Rita mine, is an open-pit copper mine located in the town of Santa Rita, New Mexico east of Silver City.

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Chrysocolla

Chrysocolla is a hydrated copper phyllosilicate mineral with formula: Cu2−Al(H2−Si2O5)(OH)4·H2O (or (Cu,Al)2H2Si2O5(OH)4·H2O. The structure of the mineral has been questioned, as spectrographic studies suggest material identified as chrysocolla may be a mixture of the copper hydroxide spertiniite and chalcedony.

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Chuquicamata

Chuquicamata, or "Chuqui" as it is more familiarly known, is by excavated volume the largest open pit copper mine in the world, located in the north of Chile, just outside Calama at above sea level, northeast of Antofagasta and north of the capital, Santiago.

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Copper

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

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Copper extraction

Copper extraction refers to the methods used to obtaining copper from its ores.

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Copper Hills High School

Copper Hills High School is located in West Jordan, Utah, United States, situated just east of the Oquirrh Mountains in the southwest corner of the Salt Lake Valley near the Bingham Canyon Copper Mine.

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Copper mining in Arizona

Copper mining in Arizona, a state of the United States, has been a major industry since the 19th century.

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Copper mining in the United States

Copper mining in the United States has been a major industry since the rise of the northern Michigan copper district in the 1840s.

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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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Coyote attack

Coyote attacks on humans are uncommon and rarely cause serious injuries, mainly due to the relatively small size of the coyote, but have been increasingly frequent, especially in the state of California.

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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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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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Drilling and blasting

Drilling and blasting is the controlled use of explosives and other methods such as gas pressure blasting pyrotechnics, to break rock for excavation.

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Economy of Salt Lake City

The economy of Salt Lake City, Utah is primarily service oriented.

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Economy of Utah

Utah has a largely mixed economy covering industries like tourism, mining, agriculture, manufacturing, information technology, finance, and petroleum production.

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Ed Mayne

Eddie Paul Mayne (September 16, 1945 – November 25, 2007) was an American politician from Utah.

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Enargite

Enargite is a copper arsenic sulfosalt mineral with formula: Cu3AsS4.

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Extreme points of Earth

This is a list of extreme points of Earth, the geographical locations that are farther north or south than, higher or lower in elevation than, or farthest inland or out to sea from, any other locations on the landmasses, continents or countries.

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Extremes on Earth

This article describes extreme locations on Earth.

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F. Augustus Heinze

Fritz Augustus Heinze (December 5, 1869 – November 4, 1914) was one of the three Copper Kings of Butte, Montana, along with William Andrews Clark and Marcus Daly.

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Feather River Route

The Feather River Route is a rail line that was built and operated by the Western Pacific Railroad.

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Gene Fullmer

Lawrence Gene Fullmer (July 21, 1931 – April 27, 2015) was an American professional boxer and World Middleweight champion.

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Gold mining

Gold mining is the resource extraction of gold by mining.

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Gold mining in the United States

Gold mining in the United States has taken place continually since the discovery of gold at the Reed farm in North Carolina in 1799.

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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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Henry Krumb

Henry Krumb (1875–1958) was an American mining engineer.

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International Smelting and Refining Company

The International Smelting and Refining Company was a subsidiary of Anaconda Copper which operated primarily out of the International Smelter near Tooele, Utah.

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Interstate 80 in Utah

Interstate 80 (I-80) is a part of the Interstate Highway System that runs from San Francisco, California, to Teaneck, New Jersey.

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Jordan River (Utah)

The Jordan River, in the state of Utah, United States, is a river about long.

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Kennecott Utah Copper

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

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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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Lark, Utah

Lark is a ghost town located west of Herriman in the Oquirrh Mountains of southwest Salt Lake County, Utah, United States.

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Lawrence Scanlan

Lawrence Scanlan (September 28, 1843 – May 10, 1915) was an Irish Roman Catholic missionary and the first Bishop of Salt Lake City, Utah (1887-1915).

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List of canyons and gorges in Utah

This is a partial list of canyons in the U.S. state of Utah along with any rivers, roads, and other features (such as rail lines) that pass through them.

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List of copper mines

This is a list of copper mines and lists operating, closed and planned mines that have substantial copper output.

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List of Freemasons (E–Z)

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List of industrial heritage sites

This is a list of notable Industrial heritage sites throughout the world that have been inscribed on "top tier" heritage lists, including the UNESCO World Heritage List, Grade I listed buildings (England and Wales), Category A listed buildings (Scotland), Grade A listed buildings (Northern Ireland), National Historic Sites of Canada, National Historic Landmarks (USA), etc.

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List of Missouri University of Science and Technology alumni

The alumni of Missouri University of Science and Technology, or Missouri S&T, include both graduates and non-graduates who have attended the University located in Rolla, Missouri.

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List of museums in Utah

This list of museums in Utah encompasses museums defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.

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List of open-pit mines

This is a list of open-pit mines.

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List of Utah state symbols

The U.S. state of Utah has 26 official symbols, as designated by the Utah State Legislature, and three unofficial symbols.

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Lists of copper mines in the United States

The following lists of copper mines in the United States.

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Man-made structures visible from space

Man-made structures visible from earth orbit without magnification (by mechanical aids such as a camera or binoculars) include highways, dams, and cities.

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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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Molybdenum

Molybdenum is a chemical element with symbol Mo and atomic number 42.

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Molybdenum mining in the United States

Molybdenum mining in the United States produced 65,500 metric tons of molybdenum in 2014, worth US$1.8 billion.

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Newhouse, Utah

Newhouse is a ghost town located on the eastern edge of the Wah Wah Valley in Beaver County, Utah, United States.

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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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Pebble Mine

Pebble Mine is the common name of a mineral exploration project investigating a very large porphyry copper, gold, and molybdenum mineral deposit in the Bristol Bay region of Southwest Alaska, near Lake Iliamna and Lake Clark.

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Peter J. Pitchess

Peter J. Pitchess (February 26, 1912 – April 4, 1999) was the 28th Sheriff of Los Angeles County, California, serving from 1958 to 1981.

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Pioneer Village (Utah)

Pioneer Village is located inside of the Lagoon Amusement Park in Farmington, Utah.

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Porphyry copper deposit

Porphyry copper deposits are copper orebodies that are formed from hydrothermal fluids that originate from a voluminous magma chamber several kilometers below the deposit itself.

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Rio Tinto Stadium

Rio Tinto Stadium (commonly referred to as simply Rio Tinto or The RioT) is an American soccer-specific stadium in Sandy, Utah, that serves as home stadium for Major League Soccer club Real Salt Lake and National Women's Soccer League club Utah Royals FC.

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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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Shoshonite

Shoshonite is a type of igneous rock.

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Silver mining in the United States

Silver mining in the United States began on a major scale with the discovery of the Comstock Lode in Nevada in 1858.

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Skarn

Skarns or tactites are hard, coarse-grained metamorphic rocks that form by a process called Metasomatism.

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Steam shovel

A steam shovel is a large steam-powered excavating machine designed for lifting and moving material such as rock and soil.

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This Is Cinerama

This is Cinerama is a 1952 full-length film designed to introduce the widescreen process Cinerama, which broadens the aspect ratio so the viewer's peripheral vision is involved.

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Tony Anselmo

Tony Anselmo (born February 18, 1960) is an American voice actor and animator.

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Tooele, Utah

Tooele is a city in Tooele County in the U.S. state of Utah.

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Torleif S. Knaphus

Torleif Soviren Knaphus (14 December 1881 – 14 June 1965) was a Norwegian-born artist and sculptor in Utah, primarily known for sculptures for and about The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church).

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Udachnaya pipe

The Udachnaya pipe (тру́бка Уда́чная, literally lucky pipe) is a diamond deposit in the Daldyn-Alakit kimberlite field in Sakha Republic, Russia.

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University of Utah College of Engineering

The College of Engineering at the University of Utah is an academic college of the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, Utah.

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Uranium mining in Utah

Uranium mining in Utah, a state of the United States, has a history going back more than 100 years.

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Utah

Utah is a state in the western United States.

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Utah Division (D&RGW)

The Utah Division of the former Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad (D&RGW) is a rail line that connects Grand Junction, Colorado and Salt Lake City, Utah (formerly Ogden) in the Western United States.

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Utah State Route 201

State Route 201 (SR-201) is an east–west expressway and freeway located in Salt Lake County in the U.S. state of Utah.

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Utah State Route 209

State Route 209 (SR-209) is a state highway in the U.S. state of Utah, following 9000 South and other east–west streets south of Salt Lake City.

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West Jordan, Utah

West Jordan is a city in Salt Lake County, Utah, United States.

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Western Federation of Miners

The Western Federation of Miners (WFM) was a radical labor union that gained a reputation for militancy in the mines of the western United States and British Columbia.

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References

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

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