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Bingham Canyon Mine - Utah

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Nasa/Novapix

Reference

t-nauta-00005

Date

2017-10-23

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. The mine is the largest man-made excavation in the world and is considered to have produced more copper than any other mine in history – more than 19 million tonnes. Astronaut photograph was acquired on September 20 2007 from the International Space Station (ISS).