Fun fact, they actually bought the town of Bingham right next to it, and completely covered the houses in waste ore. Another fun fact, they actually have no idea where a lot of the underground sections are from back in the day, so sometimes when they drill or blast they blow straight into an old shaft and send an rc car with a gps and camera into it to map the surrounding area. I’d say it’s definitely the coolest place I’ve ever worked haha

I've been on that mine a number of times as a contractor working on their power grid. Awesome site to be on. Keep up the good work Aaron

Thank you RIO TINTO ! Great Tour !

Another very educational video, Aaron. Keep up the great work. I could watch videos like this for hours. Thanks for sharing and have a great weekend!!

Hey I work there!! so glad you made this video!

I could have watched 3 hours on this mine. The thing most people dont know about copper is that most deposits are like less than 5% copper. So when you say copper ore, it makes you think its 30---70% copper, but no, its nowhere close to that.

Great video as always. Love your enthusiasm for large scale operations and machinery. It helps you're easy on the eyes. Thank you!

Love the videos where you are visiting mines! Super fascinating and happy you’re showing the American mining machine!

Loading all day after time ,starts to rot the brain from boredom. The haul truck operators at least get to move and see whats happening in the pit. After digging and loading on and off road haul trucks, i couldn't take it for more than a hour a day. With that said, another great video.

Awesome video man! Nice work and glad you’re out there enlightening the world about the importance of mining 👍🏼

This was AWESOME! You have a great film presence and relate well to the audience. Thank you!

Dont forget the Mount Lyell mine in Queenstown Tasmania, what a history that place has in copper mining!

I love watching mining videos . My times in the pit were the most fun. Moving water around making sure trucks and shovel can keep going. 🙃

Great video. Amazing mine. I remember learning about this mine in school. Amazing it’s been operating for so long. It’s a great piece of mining and North American history.

Worked with Keiwit when they built that alignment for the conveyor and relocated that crusher.......was the coolest and most impressive job I've ever been on I LOVE THAT MINE!!!!

Great video and fantastic tour, thanks for sharing.

I worked on the ball mills at that mine. Incredible operation 😊

Astounding heavy machinery innovations push the boundaries of possibility.

Amazing facility... I visited 20 years ago.

I grew up in a town near Kennecott. Awesome video!

You should see if u can come to Sudbury Ontario and tour around the nickel operations with vale

Thank you Mr. Mines 😊❤😊 for going to the BIGGEST Mine and one YES went to the observation ( visiting) overlook. Those BIG haul trucks look so small standing overlooking the vast open pit. If you ever visit Sail Lake City please go visit this amazing site. 😊 It is well worth your time. It looks so different than when I went just a few years ago. The Huge CAT graders working in threes keeping the haul road smooth 😊 these graders are the biggest ones CAT makes. There was a tour bus at gift shop at overlook. The works said the riders in the bus were students from an engineering school who were getting access like you to mile floor and work areas. There is an operator training building for new and experienced operators to practice with a small remote control P&H shovel with control set up just like a real Shovel. To upgrade their skills. These students were going to get to operate that great teaching aid. 😊 There is a pumping station at bottom to STOP the ground water from filling the mine, saw a big CAT excavator digging and opening these basically rivers that pour water through the bank above and to the side of haul Roads. As soon as the "BLAST" went off, the Huge CAT Dozer started "Ripping" the blast area. I can't stress it enough if you have ever wanted to SEE a big open pit mine, see the giant shovel haul trucks and the other huge equipment actually working a cut.😊 Go visit this mine. Even though we were in Salt Lake to go to a truck convention and driving & Backing up semi's competition see the BYU big church school campus. See the Island in the middle of the great Salt lake. This trip to mine was my best and favorite 😊❤😊 part of trip there. I will go again. A big thanks again for doing video on this wonder of earth 🌍 works. They do get a LOT of GOLD out of mine besides just their main copper ⛏️

SAG mills DO have grinding balls in them "SAG is an acronym for semi-autogenous grinding. SAG mills are autogenous mills that also use grinding balls like a ball mill." Autogenous or "auto" mills do NOT have grinding balls in them and use rock on rock action to grind up the ore

GOD DANG Aaron!! Almost 300k subs? Last time i saw your sub count you were at 20k. Keep up the good work bro love the videos.

I visited the Bingham mine about 25 years ago. The visitor's center was in the pit itself and you could watch the as they hauled ore to the crusher. You had to be careful as you drove on the access road to the visitor's center as you reached a point where haul trucks crossed the access road. I have no idea how much the set up has changed since.

Super cool to see what's going on, as a Slc resident!

Your videos are on another level😮😮

Copper is the big star in EV industry,the longest business of this century to mitigate climate change negative effects as well as to eliminate CO emissions globally¡¡Chile has the major reserves of copper in earth¡¡¡Codelco has 20% base reserves all over the world¡¡Rio Tinto has copper operations in Chile too¡¡In my view,copper outlook remains price-positive in the long term¡¡

Great presentation 👍🏻

This mine is truly huge. I recently saw a video from Boliden's copper mine Aitik in the Swedish northern ore field, and that mine is huge. But Bingham Canyon is on a nother level entirely, it's an actual canyon.

You should look at teck’s trail operations. One of the largest smelters of its kind in the world in a small town, main products are lead and zinc

Awesome thanks awesome commentary

Unbelievable interesting your videos. Thanks for that.

Always Great Aaron, cheers from Florida, Paul

Cool tour thanks👍

Crazy that these house-sized ore haulers look like toy trucks compared to the scale of the pit. I’ve yet to visit this pit and it’s only an hour away from me! Gotta do it!

Copper Great childhood memories picking copper pieces from gravel road Copper Country in upper MI they would crush gravel from grout piles at copper mines There was alway copper tossed through the crusher. There in, the gravel roads. My dad would bring pieces home from his excavation sites also for us boys 🇫🇮

Hi! Thx for ur videos. Plz make content about underground mining!

Great video I would love to see more

Absolutely amazing. 👍😊🇮🇪🇺🇸

Great video. You should take a look at the Rio Tinto Mine for Iron Ore in Labrador. Would love to work on their mines, but sadly, apparently, they do not hire people my age anymore.

Why would you show a zinc cent on your cover page if this is about copper?

You should see the Oyu Tolgoi gold and copper mine in Mongolia. It's huge.

Great video with some exceptional images! This has probably the best images of flotation I've seen. You mention SAG mills. Is that a manufacturer's name? In my experience with Anaconda's Washoe mill and smelter, those would be rod mills. Can you explain the difference?

Fascinating video. Thank you, Aaron. Is it known when the ore will be depleted and the mine will have to close? The mine can not last forever. Right?

During the agitation air is actually introduced forming bubbles the valuable minerals particles will collide with the bubble and be embedded on the surface of the bubble as in moves from the bottom to eventually be floated . the process is called froth flotation

Great job!

My cousin drives one of the big trucks there, pretty cool

Come see Chino and Tyrone in Silver City NM. Would love to see videos on the 2 sites 💪🏽💪🏽💪🏽

Keep up the good work! I could easily watch hour long videos of you guys.

I so badly want to go there in person

This mine is the largest producer of the element scandium. Scandium while being relatively common has no known deposits so one source of broken rock is as good as another and this is the the largest pile of broken rock in the world. While being common the lack of scandium deposits means that on a per gram basis scandium is more valuable than gold and this place makes the most.

I lived in salt lake for most of my life and this mine is always in the background on the hill. My father in law works there now. Every piece of equipment up there is so massive it doesn’t compute😂

Very nice, I do miss the slightly longer videos though

Nice sharing Vidio.. very inspiring and useful... good luck.. greeting from Bandar Alay Heavyequepment Channel Indonesia 🇮🇩⚒️⛏️💎😍👍👍

Pretty wild to think our wires and pipes come out of those rocks. Human inginuity is awesome.

SAG mills have balls in them too, just a lower percentage of balls compared to a ball mill. SAG stands for semi autogenous grinding, the idea being that the rock half breaks itself down by colliding with itself, but there are also some balls in there to assist. Great video by the way 😊

Built a similar mine,electrical,about 8yrs ago now has 1 of three biggest ball mills in n america mt milligan bc canada

Just massive all around

I just came here to say pennies aren't copper anymore. They stopped making pennies out of copper in 1982. If a penny was made out of copper today it'd be worth about 3 cents. Now you can argue that the mint makes up for that shortfall when they print twenty dollar bills but that's not how they see it. The copper plating is pretty thin so you can scrape it off and see the base metal that's inside of a penny. It's zinc.

Good vodeo thanks

Copper is made in the hearts of stars.

One cent coins (Penny) are Copper plated Zinc. Thumbnail. Have been since 1984.

I wish the smelter segment wasn't so vague, the process is so complex and interesting to see what all is involved.

Very good video. How long is spiral road from top to bottom?

Good show, jolly good show!

Great video would love to see where they take all the waste rock from sudge a massive hole!

I live 25 min away n haven't had a tour yet damit. They do have a sweet outlook on too the mine but its windy. Be prepared

The refining process must use an incredible amount of water.

Hey what team was running in the pit on your visit? I drive Haul Truck 489 on team 4. Anyway, awesome video ✊🏽

Would like to see how the gold - silver - moly etc... are seperated !

You should try to come to burns harbor steel mill outside of Chicago. Youd love it

It would cool if you could do a show on the open pit gold mine in the city of Mojave

Sag mills contain balls. They are just larger than the ball mills.

Any idea how many gallons of diesel that place burns up or consumes daily? 🤔

You would think bringing the hopper feeder deeper would be much more efficient

Your Mom's a Star🎉

Really cool mine but i am amazed that they are able to pay so little for a rock truck driver $23.24 on the website you look at the area surrounding the mine and you would be lucky to afford a 1 bedroom condo off a full time rock truck operator roll i know its considered entry level and i bet that they give a pay bump plus tons of overtime definitely would be a cool job for a young person though wish i new about this when i was 18

Amfo. Diesel and nitrogen fertilizer mix . That’s your main explosive. Still need blasting caps and primer cord .

The title should read: World deepest *open pit* mine. It's not in the top 30 of the actual deepest mines, with some mines being 3x as deep as this one

How much longer will this be an active mine?

Nice work , i can use a little copper in my mineral supplements.

Very interesting, but for my taste you could have gone a bit more into the details 👍🏼

I want to visit 😁 i am a Mining & Mineral processing Engineer .

You said that rio tinto is the only mine that does the full process at the mine to make it pure copper but I work at the Morenci copper mine in Arizona and we do the same thing

Surely having so many trucks queuing up waiting to be loaded is not very efficient? Or am I missing something?

Will you be heading to the gold mines in Nevada sometime?

6:41 SAG mills do indeed have steel balls inside them!

SAG mills can have balls in them. Our SAG runs balls, they're the shorter stubbier looking mills then your material will head to your ball mills which are the longer looking looking mills generally after some sorting of the material for a finer grind.

I wish this was hours long

How many shovels does it take the P&H to load one dump body?

4:45 he’s like a kid in a candy store 😂

Pulling serious metals to support all that.

i am 6 again

4100 is best shovel

When are we getting longer more in depth videos

George Jones wrote a song called Open Pit Mine pretty good

One day I hope to be as confident as Aaron when he’s calling machines by the wrong name 😂

Simply so cool 😂

Very deep,is that good for our planet?