UPDATED: Massive Landslide at Bingham Mine – Is this what Pebble will bring?
Posted by Zach Roberts on April 15, 2013 · 12 Comments
UPDATE: Quoted from Dow JonesĀ 4/16/2013 RIO Tinto has asked employees to take vacation or unpaid leave after a massive landslide at its Bingham Canyon mine in Utah’s Salt Lake Valley, one of the world’s largest copper producing mines. Rio Tinto’s Kennecott Utah Copper unit said it has asked for workers to volunteer to take leave because the operation isn’t running at full capacity. “The slip has destroyed the main access decline into the pit, so a new decline will need to be constructed before mining can resume. We have no guidance from Rio on how long this will take, but…
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