Bingham Copper Mine
The Bingham Canyon Mine, more commonly known as Kennecott Copper Mine among locals, is an open-pit mining operation extracting a large porphyry copper deposit southwest of Salt Lake City, Utah, in the Oquirrh Mountains.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Photo: David Ratledge, CC BY 4.0.
- Type: Industry
- Description: copper mine in Salt Lake County, Utah, United States
- Also known as: “Bingham Canyon Mine”, “Bingham Canyon Open Pit Copper Mine”, “Bingham Copper Mining Pit”, “Bingham Copper Pit Mine”, and “Kennecott Copper Mine”
- Address: UT
Photo: David Ratledge, CC BY 4.0.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Copperton and Herriman.
Copperton
Village
Copperton is a town in Salt Lake County, Utah, United States, located at the mouth of Bingham Canyon, approximately 17 miles southwest of Salt Lake City. Copperton is situated 3 miles northeast of Bingham Copper Mine.
Herriman
Town
Herriman is a city in the Salt Lake City metropolitan area, located in southwestern Salt Lake County, Utah. The population was 55,144 as of the 2020 census. Herriman is situated 6 miles east of Bingham Copper Mine.
Bingham Copper Mine
- Categories: copper mine and opencast mine
- Location: Salt Lake, Utah, Southwest, United States, North America
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Latitude
40.53162° or 40° 31′ 54″ northLongitude
-112.13528° or 112° 8′ 7″ westElevation
5,564 feet (1,696 metres)Open location code
85G9GVJ7+JVOpenStreetMap ID
way 844044375OpenStreetMap feature
landuse=industrial
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Bingham Copper Mine” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “منجم وادي بينغهام”
- Armenian: “Բինգհեմ Կիրճի Հանք”
- Azerbaijani: “Binhem-Kanyon”
- Basque: “Bingham Canyongo meatzea”
- Catalan: “Bingham Canyon”
- Cebuano: “Bingham Copper Mine”
- Chinese: “賓漢谷銅礦場”
- Czech: “Důl Bingham Canyon”
- Danish: “Bingham Canyon”
- Dutch: “Bingham Canyon Mine”
- Esperanto: “Mino Bingham Canyon”
- French: “mine de Bingham Canyon”
- French: “Mine de Bingham Canyon”
- German: “Bingham Canyon Mine”
- German: “Kennecott Copper Mine”
- Indonesian: “Tambang Kanyon Bingham”
- Italian: “Miniera di Bingham Canyon”
- Japanese: “ビンガムキャニオン鉱山”
- Korean: “빙엄 캐니언 광산”
- Lithuanian: “Bingamo kanjono kasykla”
- Persian: “معدن بینگم کنین”
- Persian: “معدن دره بینگهام”
- Polish: “Bingham Canyon Mine”
- Polish: “Kennecott Copper Mine”
- Portuguese: “Mina de Bingham Canyon”
- Russian: “Бингем-Каньон”
- Russian: “Бингхем-Каньон”
- Russian: “Карьер Kennecott Bingham Canyon Mine”
- Serbian: “Рудник кањона Бингам”
- Serbian: “Рудник кањона Бингхам”
- Spanish: “Mina de cobre de Kennecott”
- Spanish: “Mina del cañón de Bingham”
- Ukrainian: “Бінгем-Каньйон”
- Ukrainian: “Кар’єр ‘Бінгем-Каньйон’”
- Ukrainian: “Копальня ‘Бінгем-Каньйон’”
- Urdu: “بنگہم کینین مائن”
- Vietnamese: “Kennecott Utah Copper, West 10200 South, Bingham Canyon, Utah, Hoa Kỳ”
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