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

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

Global supply chains are already reeling from the impact of China's rare earth export controls, but an even bigger critical ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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.

Four mines fed the Mill at Kennecott, all over three miles away and 2,500 feet up the side of Bonanza Ridge. A series of aerial tramways brought ore down and men up.