J. Willard Marriott Library Special Collections
Bingham Canyon landscapes photograph collection
P0972
0.25 linear feet
1 archives box
10 items
1965-1982
The Bingham Canyon landscapes photograph collection includes industrial photographs of the Bingham Canyon copper mine, locally known as the Kennecott Copper Mine, dated approximately 1965-1985. The images depict aerial views of the open-pit, construction around the pit, and dirt roads around Bingham Mine.
This collection is entirely digitalized and available online in our Digital Library.
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Purchased from Tschanz Rare Books in 2023.
Arranged chronologically.
The Bingham Mine is an open-pit mining operation, that largely extracts copper from the Oquirrh Mountains, southwest of Salt Lake City, Utah. The mine is owned by Rio Tinto and operated through the Kennecott Utah Copper Corporation. It is one of the world's largest man-made excavations and among the deepest open-pit copper mines. The Bingham Mine formerly included a town—Bingham Canyon, Utah—founded in 1904 to support the community forming around the mine. However, in the mid-twentieth century, Kennecott Copper Corporation was purchasing large tracts of land within the town to expand mining operations. By 1971, much of the town was purchased by Kennecott Copper, and most of the city's population had moved to other locales, including neighboring Copperton. On November 22, 1971, Bingham Canyon, Utah was officially disincorporated, and most of the town was delomished in the following years.
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The Bingham Canyon landscapes photograph collection consists of 1 box containing 10 photographic color and black-and-white prints depicting Bingham Canyon and the open-pit copper mine.
This collection is entirely digitalized and available online in our Digital Library.
See also the Bingham Canyon photograph collection (P0780) located in the Multimedia Division of Special Collections.
The library does not claim to control copyright for all materials in the collection. An individual depicted in a reproduction has privacy rights as outlined in Title 45 CFR, part 46 (Protection of Human Subjects). For further information, please review the J. Willard Marriott Library's Use Agreement and Reproduction Request forms.
Kennecott Copper Corporation. Utah Copper Division
Bingham Canyon (Utah)--Photographs
Copper mines and mining--Utah--Bingham Canyon--History--Photographs
Bingham Mine
1965
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- P0972n01_01_001: Bingham Canyon open copper mine in winter, 1965, aerial photograph
Bingham Mine
1971
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- P0972n01_02_001: Bingham Copper Mine, 1971, aerial photograph
Bingham Mine
1981
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- P0972n01_03_001: Construction vehicles leveling road to lay pipes, Bingham Mine, September 1981; flatbed truck in foreground
- P0972n01_03_002: Pipes laid in leveled dirt up a hill, Bingham Mine, September 1981; a train and the Bingham Canyon B in background
- P0972n01_03_003: Aerial view of road construction at Bingham Mine, November 1981
- P0972n01_03_004: Aerial view of Bingham Canyon, November 1981; train tracks, dirt roads, and buildings
- P0972n01_03_005: Construction road near Bingham Canyon, December 1981
Bingham Mine
1982
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- P0972n01_04_001: Midas Dam site, March 1982; dirt roads weaving through hills and juniper trees
Bingham Mine, Undated
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- P0972n01_05_001: Aerial view of Bingham Copper Mine, looking southwest towards Oquirrh Mountains
- P0972n01_05_002: Clound rising from open-pit copper mine, looking east