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SALT LAKE CITY The landslide at a copper mining pit that loosened enough material to fill two-thirds of the Panama Canal could lower tax revenue, especially for local schools and a fire district, ...

SALT LAKE COUNTY, Utah — After two years, people will once again be able to get a close-up view of one of Utah's most impressive sites. The Visitor Experience at the Bingham Canyon Mine has reopened ...

BINGHAM CANYON MINE, Utah — Aaron Clement drives one of the massive trucks at the world's largest open pit copper mine. "It's like moving a house," he jokes. Clement, who works at Rio Tinto ...

ISS015-E-29867 (20 Sept. 2007) — Bingham Canyon Mine, Utah is featured in this image photographed by an Expedition 15 crewmember on the International Space Station. The Bingham Canyon Mine (center) ...

Utah jumped to second in a federal database of states’ total toxic chemical releases – a rise mostly attributable to the Bingham Canyon Mine, one of the largest open-pit copper mines in the world. The ...

There had been a major, 135 million tonne landslide at Bingham Canyon's north-east wall in April 2013, with recovery work taking two years and constraining production. Rio did not refer to any ...

The scale is astonishing: nearly 100 trucks, each one carrying 320 tons (640,000 pounds) of ore, running 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. The trucks crawl along at 10 to 15 mph, carrying ...

Rio Tinto said on Wednesday there was a landslip at the southeast corner of its U.S. Bingham Canyon copper mine in Utah on May 31. MELBOURNE, June 2 (Reuters) - Rio Tinto RIO.AX said on Wednesday ...

New research from BYU political science professor Adam Dynes found that local governments formed in “off-cycle” years lean toward the interests of organized interest groups rather than the interests ...