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OK, I bit the bullet and finally took care of the duplicate articles about the Bingham Canyon Mine, consolidating the former Bingham Canyon and Kennecott Copper Mine articles at this location. I chose this name to avoid confusion with the former mines in Kennecott, Alaska, and because (as a former Utahn) I believe the Bingham Canyon name is in far more common use. I went with "Bingham Canyon Mine" rather than just "Bingham Canyon" to distinguish the mine from the place name and former city. (Kennecott itself also calls the place "Bingham Canyon Mine.") Finally, I created a stub article at Bingham Canyon, Utah for the former city.
The mine article definitely needs a bit of work, something evidenced in part by the fact that some of the info in the two former articles was in conflict. I may work on that a bit later, but first I have a bunch of redirects to clear up, and I want to expand the article about the former city a bit. Pitamakan 23:01, 7 April 2007 (UTC)
Hi, I've lived in Utah for the past 29 years less 2 years split up into a few months here and there. I can say I have never once heard Kennecott Copper Mine referred to as "Bingham Canyon Mine". Not once. Kennecott or Kennecott Copper Mine seem to be the most common names used.
It is unclear to what the cost of $3 million refers. Is it the cost of the truck? Or value of the ore that it carries? Or the production cost of that ore? This needs to be verified and reworded in a more straightforward sentence.-- Edgewise ( talk) 14:49, 21 April 2008 (UTC)
Edgewise; The reference for the information you request clarification on is in the Teacher Guide under the outside links. I fear my limited English skills would produce a sentence of similar structure. So I leave this clarification edit to you. 216.186.188.196 ( talk) 21:18, 7 December 2009 (UTC)
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According to Carlos Ruiz Fuller annd Federico Peebles, both highly respected professors in the geology and geophysics departments of the University of Chile, Chuqui's copper production to the end of 1985 was 15.7 million tonnes (Yacimientos Metaliferos de Chile). Since then it has mined an additional 13.6 million tonnes according to Cochilco (Comisión Chilena del Cobre), making a total of just over 29 million tonnes of fine copper. If you still don't believe me, in The Decline of the Copper Industry in Chile and the Entrance of North ... By Joanne Fox Przeworski, are given production figures for Chuqui up to 1930 of 1.1 million tonnes. Nevertheless, adding this tonnage to the 1986-2007 figures from Cochilco they nearly equal Bingham Canyon's claimed total. Adding in the approximate 200,000 tonnes p.a. production between those two dates gives 26.3 million tonnes. Finally, in a presentation entitled TRANSITION FROM OPEN PIT TO UNDERGROUND MINING AT CHUQUICAMATA, ANTOFAGASTA, CHILE given recently by Codelco executives in Johannesburg it was stated that Chuqui had produced by the end of the year 2005, about 2.6 billion tons of copper ore with a mean grade of 1.53% or 39.8 million tonnes of contained copper. Assuming a rather low recovery of 75%, this equates to a production of just under 30 million tonnes. Chuqui is the biggest copper producer in total, I'm afraid, and by a long way. If you disagree, please let me know. Egoli ( talk) 11:48, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
I reverted the last removal of a reference. A reference doesn't have to be a source for all of the information, it can be a source for just some. Fact tag anything in particular that requires additional references, or post here what you need more references to. But, please don't remove references that provide a source to part of the information, unless you're replacing it with a better reference to all of the material. -- Blechnic ( talk) 20:27, 1 August 2008 (UTC)
File:Binghamcopperminesmithson.jpg has been nominated for deletion -- 65.92.180.137 ( talk) 01:20, 14 March 2013 (UTC)
"A train in the background can be seen taking material to the dump." No it cannot be seen. I looked at the high resolution copy of this image, and I could not find any sign of a train in any part of the photo. So even if it is there it cannot be seen. Nick Beeson ( talk) 16:12, 30 June 2013 (UTC)
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I see someone added this claim (with a weakish cite). IB Chuquicamata is tha largest by volume of material removed (roughly 9 billion cubic metres), although Bingham is deeper. See What's the biggest man-made hole in the world?. -- Pete Tillman ( talk) 21:20, 6 March 2016 (UTC), mining geologist
I go along with Chuquicamata being the largest open pit by volume as it started life as a hill. Bingham Canyon started life in a depression (the clue is in the name) and has had to bench up the surrounding hills to maintain the correct pit slope. This gives a misleading impression of the rock that has been removed and exaggerates amount of rock that has been removed. Egoli ( talk) 14:22, 13 July 2017 (UTC) Egoli ( talk) 14:22, 13 July 2017 (UTC)
Not well expressed but you get what I mean Egoli ( talk) 14:23, 13 July 2017 (UTC) Egoli ( talk) 14:23, 13 July 2017 (UTC)
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I have measured the open pit with Google Earth. I can't tell the limits with precision just by looking at the image, but in any case I can guarantee it's much larger than 7,7 km2 -- Jbaranao ( talk) 11:31, 8 August 2019 (UTC)