No, Tooele is on the other side of the Oquirrh Mountains. It is nearest the town of Copperton. The address of the visitors center in the mine is 12800 South State Hwy. 111 Bingham Canyon, UT. You can take a sightseeing bus tour to the mine through a couple of tour companies that operate daily when the visitors center is open April through October.
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This mine is mine. Let's mine this lode!
The worlds largest open pit mine is the Kennecott copper mine in Utah. its is more than 2 3/4 miles across and more than 3/4 of a mile deep. The worlds largest mine? The Syncrude mine (the biggest mine in the world at 191 km2). Quite a bit larger than Kennecott.
Mainly because the Kennecott Copper Mine was in Alaska (Wrangell) and was exhausted years ago. Be more precise. P Taylor, Devon To be more precise, Kennecott, Anaconda and othe Chilean cooper mines were nationalized during Allende government. They were later repaid in full during Pinochet's dictatorship. G.
Utah, USA :)
The Escondida copper mine in the Atacama Desert in Chile is the Worlds largest copper mine.
Chuquicamata (Codelco) in Chile is the biggest open pit in the world, followed by Bingham Canyon near Salt Lake city. I believe the biggest planned pit could be at Olympic Dam in Australia, but is currenly only in planning stage.
U.S.A. It's in Utah. You can see it from outer space.
One of the largest excavations in the world has been made by opencast mining at the Bingham Canyon copper mine in Utah, USA, measuring 790 m/2,590 ft deep and 3.7 km/2.3 mi across.
The Copper Cliff Mine, near Sudbury, Ontario, Canada, is a nickel mine.
Mopani Copper Mine's population is 15,500.
It is a gold/copper mine that collapsed in Chile.