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Kennecott Utah Copper

1898 establishments in UtahCompanies based in UtahCopper mining in the United StatesFormer components of the Dow Jones Industrial AverageMining companies of the United States
Non-renewable resource companies established in 1898Rio Tinto (corporation) subsidiaries
Bingham Canyon mine 1942
Bingham Canyon mine 1942

Kennecott Utah Copper LLC (KUC), a division of Rio Tinto Group, is a mining, smelting, and refining company. Its corporate headquarters are located in South Jordan, Utah. Kennecott operates the Bingham Canyon Mine, one of the largest open-pit copper mines in the world in Bingham Canyon, Salt Lake County, Utah. The company was first formed in 1898 as the Boston Consolidated Mining Company. The current corporation was formed in 1989. The mine and associated smelter produce 1% of the world's copper.

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