Stop two on our tour around the valley was the Bingham Canyon copper mine. The first time I was here they were using trains to haul the rock. Now it's big dump trucks.
It was a cloudy rainy day and the clouds hid the tops of the surrounding mountains. Click on the panorama to see it full-size. Hard to believe that there was once a mountain where this hole is. Took over 100 years to remove it with dynamite.
The trucks on the road are each larger than our house and can haul 240 tons of rock. The boys enjoyed watching them drive around. Too bad we didn't catch any blasting.
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