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Kennecott slide moved at 200 mph

Last updated Thursday, May 16, 2013 - 11:43am

SALT LAKE CITY — New estimates show the landslide that tumbled into Kennecott’s mining pit near Salt Lake City may have been North America’s largest human-caused slide.

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FILE - This April 11, 2013, file photo shows a broken roadway at the Kennecott Utah Copper Bingham Canyon Mine after a landslide, in Bingham Canyon, Utah, near Salt Lake City. Kennecott Utah Copper Corp. has resumed mining at landslide-devastated Bingham Canyon mine at a greatly reduced level that could mean a big hit for Salt Lake County taxpayers, who will have to make up the difference in the mine's valuation, which is based largely on copper output. (AP Photo/The Deseret News, Ravell Call, File)

Kennecott says it has to layoff some of its 2,100 workers

Paul Foy The Associated Press

Last updated Friday, May 3, 2013 - 9:22am

SALT LAKE CITY -- A Utah mining company announced Thursday it plans to lay off some of its 2,100 workers because of a landslide that filled the bottom of a copper mining pit in the mountains west of Salt Lake City with millions of tons of rock and dirt.

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FILE - This April 11, 2013, file photo shows the Kennecott Utah Copper Bingham Canyon Mine after a landslide, in Bingham Canyon, Utah, near Salt Lake City. The April 10 landslide is likely to cut production by half this year, officials at Kennecott Utah Copper said Wednesday, April 24, 2013. The company has asked 1,200 employees to take vacation or unpaid leave, although few are doing so, Kennecott spokesman Kyle Bennett said. (AP Photo/The Deseret News, Ravell Call, File)

Kennecott to conduct media tours of landslide

Paul Foy The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, April 25, 2013 - 9:56am

SALT LAKE CITY -- Kennecott Utah Copper is set to announce a timeframe for digging out Bingham Canyon mine from a major landslide.

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This photo shows the Kennecott Utah Copper Bingham Canyon Mine after a landslide Thursday, April 11, 2013 in Bingham Canyon, Utah. Kennecott Utah Copper has suspended mining inside one of the world's deepest open pits as geologists assess a landslide the company says it anticipated for months. (AP Photo/Ravell Call)

Landslide to cut Kennecott copper production in half

Paul Foy The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, April 24, 2013 - 5:47pm

SALT LAKE CITY — A landslide expected to cut production by half inside a major U.S. copper mine this year will set back the Utah economy, an expert said Wednesday.

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Kennecott landslide could be largest in mining history

Brady McCombs The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, April 17, 2013 - 9:55am

SALT LAKE CITY -- A massive landslide that halted operations at a major Utah copper mine last week was one of the largest in the history of open pit mining, an expert said Tuesday.

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Kennecott landslide was more than 165 million tons of rock, dirt

Brady McCombs The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, April 16, 2013 - 3:48pm

SALT LAKE CITY -- More than 165 million tons of rock and dirt came crashing into one of the world's largest open pits in last week's massive landslide that halted operations at a Utah copper mine.

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Hundreds of Kennecott workers asked to take voluntary leave

Contributed The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, April 16, 2013 - 9:21am

SALT LAKE CITY -- Hundreds of mine workers at Kennecott Utah Copper are being asked to take voluntary vacation or unpaid leave in the aftermath of a huge landslide last week that shut down operations 20 miles southwest of Salt Lake City.

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No injuries in landslide at Bingham Canyon Mine

Contributed, Paul Foy The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, April 11, 2013 - 6:09pm

MAGNA -- Kennecott Utah Copper has suspended mining inside one of the world's deepest open pits as geologists assess a landslide the company says it anticipated for months.

Shovel and haul operators were pulled back earlier Wednesday before the landslide tore loose around 9:30 p.m. inside the nearly mile-deep Brigham Canyon Mine, Kennecott spokesman Kyle Bennett said Thursday.

"This slide was self-contained within the mine," he said.

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Comments sought on proposed Tooele open pit gold mine

Contributed Standard-Examiner

Last updated Monday, February 11, 2013 - 6:52pm

TOOELE -- The Bureau of Land Management Utah Salt Lake Field Office is seeking public comment on a Plan of Operations and environmental assessment analyzing the potential impacts of a proposed gold mining project in southwestern Tooele County.

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