SALT LAKE CITY, Utah--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Rio Tinto has approved construction of a new 25-megawatt solar plant at its Kennecott copper operation in Utah, bringing the mine’s total solar capacity to 30MW.

The company approved $25 million in funding last year for a prefeasibility study into the underground. Kennecott has an underground resource of 20 million tonnes at 3.65% copper and 1.62 grams per ...

SALT LAKE CITY--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Rio Tinto has energized a new 25-megawatt solar plant at its Kennecott copper operations in Utah, showcasing a circular critical-minerals supply chain in which ...

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BINGHAM CANYON MINE, Utah — Aaron Clement drives one of the massive trucks at the world's largest open pit copper mine. "It's like moving a house," he jokes. Clement, who works at Rio Tinto ...

Kennecott, just outside Salt Lake City, has been operating since 1903 and the Bingham Canyon pit is the world's largest man-made, open pit excavations in the world, visible from space. Initial ...

KEX is the exploration arm of Rio Tinto Group, the world's second largest miner by market capitalization. BCM's TK project is situated approximately 125 miles southwest of Kennecott Utah Copper LLC's ...