Type of Mine: Copper Location: Utah, United States of America Built: 1904 Visible from outer space and also known as the Kennecott Copper mine, the Bingham Canyon Mine is the deepest open-pit mine ...

At more than 1,100 metres deep, Chuquicamata is still the world’s largest open-pit copper mine. (Image courtesy of Codelco.) Chile’s Codelco, the world’s largest copper producer, has ...

Nestled among the Oquirrh Mountains in Utah is the deepest open-pit copper mine on Earth. The Bingham Canyon mine, once owned by the Guggenheims and now run by Rio Tinto, has been in operation ...