Bingham Canyon Open Pit Copper Mine

Everything Here is Massive!

This place is a huge hole in the ground. You need to be there and experience it to be able to understand the size of it all. Reservations are needed and you get on the bus at the parking lot, where ...

Big!

A good introduction to surface mining for metals. It's hard to envision the scale without actually seeing it. The rock is 1% copper, so a lot has to be processed. If we're going to electrify cars...

If terrain is your thing, you gotta go here !

The most amazing big hole in the ground. Massive trucks look like toy cars at the bottom of the open cast mine. One of few man made things you can see on earth from the space station. Always wanted...

Very Poor Experience. Go Somewhere Else.

I wish I could this review negative 100 stars. My son, who is on disability, wanted to tour this mine, so I called Rio Tinto due to the last tour being at 2:30. They stated if we made it to the parkin...

On husband's bucket list!

We scheduled the visitors' experience of this amazing place. We were not disappointed. The people who ran the tour were so very informative. Would surely go back!