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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