Specifications - Bingham Canyon Copper Mine, UT, USA
| Key Data | |
|---|---|
| Producer of | Copper, gold, silver, molybdenum |
| Location | Utah, USA |
| Ownership | Rio Tinto (100%) as Kennecott Utah Copper Corp. |
| Geology type | Copper porphyry |
| Mineral type | Copper sulphides |
| Reserve base | 960Mt grading 0.54% copper, 0.32g/t gold, 0.043% molybdenum and 2.59g/t silver (2005) |
| Annual production | Metal in concentrates: 265,600t Cu, 16,800t Mo, 523,000oz Au and 4.2Moz Ag (2006) |
| Refined metal: 217,900t Cu, 462,000oz Au and 4.15Moz Ag (2006) | |
| Mining method | Open pit |
| Processing method | Conventional crushing, grinding and flotation |
| Employment | 2,250 |
| Key Equipment | |
| Open pit | Ingersoll-Rand, Bucyrus-Erie and P&H rotary drills |
| 7 P&H 2800 and 3 P&H 4100 mining shovels | |
| 53 Caterpillar 793B and 793C trucks | |
| 9 Komatsu 830E trucks | |
| 1 Komatsu 930E-2 truck | |
| 2 Caterpillar 797 trucks | |
| Modular Mining Systems truck despatching system | |
| Thunderbird Pacific drill location and monitoring system | |
| Krupp Fördertechnik in-pit crushing/conveying system | |
| Smelter | Outokumpu/Kennecott flash smelter |
| Monsanto sulphuric acid plant | |
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