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Snapshot: Life at the Utah Copper Mine, November 1942
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A conveyor belt which carried fine copper ore and discharges it into bins at one of the concentrators of the Utah Copper Company at Magna and Arthur in Utah
Bingham Canyon, Utah. Huge dipper of a shovel loading ore into cars at a mine of the Utah Copper Company
Bingham Canyon, Utah. Blasting at an open-pit mine of the Utah Copper Company
Bingham Canyon, Utah. Executives who keep heavy ore production coming from the open-pit mines of the Utah Copper Company looking out over the mine workings
Bingham Canyon, Utah. Ore train at a mine of the Utah Copper Company
Bingham Canyon, Utah. Utah Copper Company signalman
Bingham Canyon, Utah. Utah Copper Company signalman
Bingham Canyon, Utah. Signalman of the Utah Copper Company at its open-pit mine workings
Bingham Canyon, Utah. Ore trains on a trestle bridge above an open-pit mine of the Utah Copper Company
Bingham Canyon, Utah. Drilling blast holes with a rock-drill machine in an open-pit mine operated by the Utah Copper Company
Bingham Canyon, Utah. Blasting at an open-pit mine of the Utah Copper Company
Bingham Canyon, Utah. Drilling blast holes with a rock-drill machine in an open-pit mine operated by the Utah Copper Company
Bingham Canyon, Utah. Drilling blast holes with a rock-drill machine in an open-pit mine operated by the Utah Copper Company
Bingham Canyon, Utah. Loading ore into car at an open-pit of the Utah Copper Company
Bingham Canyon, Utah. Blasting at the open-pit mine of the Utah Copper Company at Carr Fork
Bingham Canyon, Utah. Huge dipper of a power shovel loading ore into a car at a mine of the Utah Copper Company
Bingham Canyon, Utah. Looking over the tops of cars loaded with ore at an open-pit mine of the Utah Copper Company
Bingham Copper Mine, Utah. Main assembly yards, office, shops, air compressor and waste material dumps up above as seen across main from "H" East side
Bingham Canyon, Utah. Looking over the main canyon toward part of the west side operations, seen from the top of an office building
Bingham Copper Mine, Utah. Main hill operations with Copper Heights homes and main shops as seen from top of the office building
Bingham Copper Mine, Utah. Carr Fork Canyon as seen from "G" bridge. In the background can be seen a train with waste or over-burden material on its way to the dump
Bingham Canyon, Utah. Loads of ore from the Utah Copper Company open-pit workings at Carr Fork
A conveyor belt which carries fine copper ore and discharges it into bins at one of the concentrators of the Utah Copper Company at Magna and Arthur in Utah