A southern Utah copper mine has restarted operations in an arrangement with Rio Tinto Kennecott, hiring workers as it expands ...

Kennecott’s Bingham Canyon Mine had the third-most releases of 90 mines that report to the U.S. Environmental Protection ...

Rio Tinto Kennecott is developing a plan to extend the life of its Bingham Canyon mine until 2040. For those plans to happen, it needs to expand the eastern portion of its historic south ...

BINGHAM CANYON — The Kennecott Copper Mine has been a fixture of the Salt Lake Valley for over 100 years and on Tuesday, the mine announced that it will be moving mining operations underground ...

Kennecott began in 1903 as the Utah Copper Co., and the first mining in Bingham Canyon was underground, although the vast majority of ore has come from more than a century of digging what was once ...

COPPERTON, Utah — Utah's famous copper mine is bringing back its underground mining operation, which ended more than 100 years ago when it shifted to an open-pit method. Rio Tinto's Kennecott ...

Step back in time at this mining ghost town deep in the Alaskan wilderness. Over a century old, walk through history and ...

McCARTHY — Twenty years after acquiring the massive ruins of the Kennecott copper mines, the National Park Service has finally figured out a way to preserve the historic company town and tell ...

BIG BAY -- At his camp on the northern edge of the Yellow Dog Plains in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, Rico Torreano can hear tapping woodpeckers, a gurgling spring and even the occasional wolf howl.

During the process, Kennecott was able to overcome objections from environmental activists who claimed mining causes too much air pollution. Bolstering Utah’s Economy The Kennecott mine, located about ...

The mining of tellurium puts Rio Tinto Kennecott in an exclusive group as one of only two U.S. producers of the critical mineral used in advanced thin-film photovoltaic solar panels.