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Bingham Canyon Mine - Utah

auteur: Nasa/Novapix

référence: t-nauta-00005

Image Size 300 DPI: 25 * 17 cm

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).

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2007 - COPPER - EARTH - EARTH FROM SPACE - EXPEDITION 15 - ISS - MINE - USA - UTAH -