Bingham Canyon Copper Mine - The Smelting and SX/EW process, Educational Video

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World's Largest Mine - Bingham Canyon Open Pit Copper Mine - the smelting and SX/EW process, Educational Video

 
Video Description: This is part two of the Bingham Canyon Mine visitor center video. This part shows the smelting and SX/EW process. Source: YouTube.

The Bingham Canyon Mine is an open-pit mining operation extracting a large porphyry copper deposit southwest of Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, in the Oquirrh Mountains. According to Kennecott Utah Copper Corporation, it is the world's largest man-made excavation.
 


  Bingham Canyon Copper Mine: Smelting and SX/EW

 

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