But Kennecott also has to expand its massive tailings operation in Magna if it wants to keep mining until 2040, which has brought some blowback from residents. Kennecott began in 1903 as the Utah ...

“But failures happen.” Failures can include leaks in tailings ponds and generally are not catastrophic, Sims added. The ...

Every day, these giant dump trucks move millions of pounds of rock at Kennecott's Bingham Canyon Mine. As you look at the dump trucks, hauling ore out of the largest open pit copper mine in the ...

This offset geotechnical challenges at Kennecott as instabilities in the pit wall impacted the mining sequence from the second quarter." On Kennecott copper mine: "Mined copper production was 35% ...