| Show 13 SUNDAY M0RNING“JUNE14 19317 THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE n tare m® mm Jl Scemiflc t VN i One of the engineering marvele f all time— a mountain of low-grad- e copper ore being literally torn down! i Mine at Bingham 28 miles southwest of has been called one of the" most inspiring From the purely scenic standpoint this mine T'lIE Utah Copper Salt Lake City sights on earth The rivals some of the most famous attractions in nature spectator' sees a tier of terraces averaging 68 feet apart rising approximately 1600 feet to the very top of the mountain and brilliantly tinted with red brown gray hues People ha v'e said that even if this mine had no economic significance it would still be an outstanding asset to Utah as a scenic attraction and-gree- t mountain That’s the mining Removal of an entire moun- tain is going on with a maximum of 142000 tons in twenty-fou- r hours It started in 1904 when many mining men thought- the project a wild dream yet since 'that time more The than 202284574 tons of copper ore have been mined wire out the into a copper obtained from this ore if drawn diameter of a pencil would encircle the earth 104 times - -- n But as everyone knows there is much more than scenery here The citizens of Utah take pride in the fact that this is the largest surface copper mine in North America They take prfyle in the fact tliat this mine represents one of the world’s most stupendous engineering enterprises — not as a finished work but in actual bperation with the mining going on before your eyes in broad daylight — a mine “turned upside down!” V Yet the Utah Copper mine is not a rich deposit It is not e mine a “bonanza” "On the contrary it is a very This means only to 15 thfe copper content ranging from 1 to ton ore 20 to 30 pounds of copper of a It is the magnitude of the workings the volume of ore mined that makes this 'property in the words of an editorial in the Engineering and Mining Journal (August 20 1927) “the premier copper mine” of the world low-grad- - - : - Giant electric shovel that scoop seven tons of earth at a time are on the 22 terraces digging away at the sides of this IW1 li- -ii See the huge electric You are invited to see this mine shovels tearing away at the mountain See the great Mallet locomotives hauling long trains of ore to the concentrating See the outward evidences of mills at Magna and Arthur the vision and courage that have made Utah one of the out- standing producers of copper in the world |
