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UTAH COPPER MINE, BINGHAM CANYON, UTAH
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"c. T. ART.COLORTONE,
UTAH COPPER MINE is located at Bingham
Canyon, Utah, about 30 miles southwest of Salt
Lake City. The Mine is a theater-like quarry
covering about 466 acres. Ore is mined by 23
electric shovels with dippers of 7 tons capacity.
Maximum daily tonnage (ore and capping)
142,185 tons, maximum employees 2,000, mine
tracks 67 miles, forty-one 75-ton electric locomotives,
Height of mountain above pit 1600 feet. At no
place in the world is power shoveling and moving of
rock done on as extensive a scale. Maximum daily
tonnage would make a train 21,5 miles long. Total
tonnage to be moved at Utah Copper Mine is more
than twice the quantity of all material excavated
from Panama Canal to its opening in 1915.
DESERET BOOK COMPANY, SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH
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