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Geology of the Bingham Canyon Porphyry Cu-Mo-Au
Open-pit copper mining commenced in 1906 and through 2011 has produced 2.666 billion tonnes of ore averaging 0.74% Cu, 0.035% Mo, 0.448 g/t Au, and 3.29 g/t Ag. Bingham
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Copper-mineralised porphyries sample the evolution of a
2021年6月1日 open access. Highlights. •. Zircon trace elements by LA-ICPMS and precise U-Pb dates by CA-ID-TIMS on same grains. •. Zircons from Bingham Canyon deposit
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Bingham Canyon Mine - MINING.COM
Joshua Zapf July 16, 2012 7:57 pm. Bingham Canyon Mine. Owner: Rio Tinto. Type of Mine: Copper. Location: Utah, United States of America. Built: 1904. Visible from outer
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Tele-production of miningscapes in the open-pit era: The
2021年12月1日 Abstract. Cited by (13) The Extractive Industries and Society. Volume 8, Issue 4, December 2021, 100830. Original article. Tele-production of miningscapes in the
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Bingham Canyon copper mine Report Wood Mackenzie
2023年10月3日 Summary. Key Issues. Tables and charts. This report includes 2 images and tables including: Bingham Canyon Emission Intensity Quartile Ranking - total global
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The Bingham Canyon Copper Deposit — U.S.A. SpringerLink
Among ‘porphyry coppers’ Bingham is normal in that the copper sulphides occur disseminated in altered granodiorite porphyry, but it is unusual in the proportion of
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Magmatic controls on the genesis of porphyry Cu–Mo–Au deposits
2017年12月5日 Abstract. Bingham Canyon is one of the world's largest porphyry Cu–Mo–Au deposits and was previously used as an example to emphasize the role of
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Bingham Canyon Open-Pit Copper Mine - ArcGIS StoryMaps
A Virtual Field Trip for Studying Mining and Processing of Copper.
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Geology of the Bingham Canyon Porphyry Cu-Mo-Au
Open-pit copper mining commenced in 1906 and through 2011 has produced 2.666 billion tonnes of ore averaging 0.74% Cu, 0.035% Mo, 0.448 g/t Au, and 3.29 g/t Ag. Bingham lies near the west end of an 80-km-long belt of petrochemically similar Eocene to Oligocene intrusions and coeval volcanic rocks, which host base and precious mining districts.
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Bingham Canyon Mine is the largest man-made
2016年8月10日 The copper operations at Bingham Canyon Mine are managed through Kennecott Utah Copper Corporation which operates the mine, a concentrator plant, a smelter, and a refinery. The mine has been
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Tele-production of miningscapes in the open-pit era: The
2021年12月1日 E. Wall conducted the first—and rudimentary—evaluations of the Bingham Canyon project. Between 1887 and 1896, he invested about US$20,000 in the excavation of more than 3000 feet in tunnels for the evaluation of his property (Parsons, 1933). In 1899, Jackling and Gemmell led an extensive geologic and economic evaluation of Bingham
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Recent Developments for Remediating Acidic Mine Waters
2017年10月3日 Application of this process has also been demonstrated on a pilot-scale at the Kennecott Bingham Canyon copper mine in Utah, where >99% of copper present in a pH 2.6 waste stream was recovered [22, 24, 25]. Sulfate reduction activity has been reported in low pH ecosystems, for example, in acidic lakes, wetlands, and acid mine drainage [19,
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Bingham Canyon Open Pit Copper Mine - Tripadvisor
Bingham Canyon is closed as a result of the land-slide. Driving into Copperton will be a dead-end. It is confusing because at the intersection of U-111 and U-48 there is a sign that directs you to Bingham Canyon via Copperton. At the west side of Copperton mine security directed us back and south on U-111.
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Tele-production of miningscapes in the open-pit era: The
2021年12月1日 Having initially rejected the Bingham mining project in 1900, by 1906, GUGGENEX had changed tack and decided to finance the mining experiment that the metallurgical engineer Daniel Cowen Jackling had started three years earlier in Bingham Canyon, Utah (Fig 1).Thus, the Guggenheims extended a crucial investment in the first
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Rio Tinto Advances Clean Energy at Kennecott - Copper
Rio Tinto Kennecott is a fully integrated mining operation just outside Salt Lake City, Utah, U.S., and a fully owned unit of Rio Tinto. For more than 110 years, Kennecott has been mining and processing minerals from the rich ore body of the Bingham Canyon Mine. In addition to Bingham Canyon, the subsidiary possesses other facilities at South ...
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Deposit Portal - Bingham Canyon - DM GEODE
The Bingham Canyon porphyry copper deposit is located in the Oquirrh Mountains of north-eastern Utah. It lies near the crest and towards the western end of the generally ENE-WSW to east-west oriented, 25 km wide Uinta Axis, which appeared in the Proterozoic and remained an active element until the Tertiary. The Uinta Axis marks the boundary ...
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Bingham Canyon Mine - MINING.COM
2012年7月16日 Visible from outer space and also known as the Kennecott Copper mine, the Bingham Canyon Mine is the deepest open-pit mine in the world today. First discovered by Mormon pioneers in the mid-1800s ...
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Kennecott Utah Copper-Bingham Canyon Mine - Atlas Obscura
2009年6月16日 *Kennecott’s Bingham Canyon Mine has produced more copper than any mine in history—about 18.1 million tons. *The mine is 2-3/4 miles across at the top and 3/4 of a mile deep.
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High-resolution zircon petrochronology from the
Porphyry copper deposits represent the interface between the plutonic and volcanic domains of upper crustal magmatic systems. Focussed fluid extraction from a large magma body results in the concentration of significant ... reservoir were the dominant processes resulting in the world class economic mineralisation at Bingham Canyon. [1 ...
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(PDF) The Richest Hole on Earth? Nature, Labor and the
2011年12月1日 Bingham Canyon copper mine is, of course, the massive scale of the deposit itself. In 1910 the exposed ore yielded a copper content of 1.54%, that is, they mined a
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Bingham Canyon Mine, Utah - NASA Earth
The Bingham Canyon Mine is one of the largest open-pit mines in the world, measuring over 4 kilometers wide and 1,200 meters deep. Mining first began in Bingham Canyon in the late nineteenth century, when shafts were
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Bingham Canyon Open Pit Copper Mine Orientation Guide
2024年2月5日 1904/1910 – Utah Copper Bingham Canyon Mill operated, pilot plant testing and evaluation of early mill methods. 1905/06 – ASARCO Garfield Smelter built, 2 reverbs., 6 converters, blister product. ... Solvent Extraction – Electrowinning Plant constructed at Copperton 2008 Copper bearing solution treated is natural runoff from waste dumps
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Rio Tinto allocates $920M to Utah's Kennecott for underground copper ...
2023年6月20日 BINGHAM CANYON — Nine months after announcing a return to underground copper mining operations after a centurylong hiatus, Rio Tinto on Tuesday revealed more steps aimed at strengthening the U.S ...
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2018年5月17日 Sanford and Thomas Bingham, along with their father Erastus Bingham, arrived in Utah in September 1847 with the Mormon pioneers. In 1848 they began grazing their cattle in the area of the mine, but the brothers quickly discovered something they thought could be far more valuable than cattle: copper ore. By 1868, Utah’s copper
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CO₂ Emissions - Copper Alliance
2021年5月4日 Copper mining firms worldwide are committed to reducing their carbon emissions. Freeport-McMoRan, one of the world’s largest copper miners, lowered its carbon emissions by more than 21 percent from 2015 to 2019. This puts the company on track to meet the COP21 framework to limit global warming to below 2°C from pre-industrial
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Mining Waste Treatment Technology Selection—Case Study—Bingham Canyon ...
2021年11月6日 The Bingham Canyon Water Treatment Plant (BCWTP) is part of Operable Unit No. 2 (Southwest Jordan Valley Groundwater Plumes) of the Kennecott South Zone (site). ... mineral processing, and active leaching operations for the extraction of copper and other precious metals from the Oquirrh Mountain area. The mining activities (i.e.,
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Bingham Canyon Visitors Center - utahrails
2022年6月18日 Another 1,100 employees were to be laid off on April 30. -- Deseret News, March 26, 1985) May 15, 1987. Governor Bangerter cut a copper ribbon to re-open the Bingham visitors center. The mine had closed in March 1985, and re-opened in Fall 1986. Access was by way of Copperton and the road in Bingham canyon.
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Reflecting on the 'rich history' of copper mining in Bingham Canyon ...
2022年9月30日 Bingham Canyon copper mining dates all the way back to the 1860s, but the story of the mine that's known today begins in 1887 when Enos Wall, a career miner, visited Bingham Canyon and found ...
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