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, USA, in the
Oquirrh Mountains. The mine is owned by
Rio Tinto Group, an international mining and exploration company headquartered in the
United Kingdom. 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 in production since 1906, and has resulted in the creation of a pit over deep, wide, and covering . It was designated a
National Historic Landmark in 1966 under the name
Bingham Canyon Open Pit Copper Mine. The mine experienced a massive landslide in April 2013 and a smaller slide in September 2013.