Five Miles of S-R 201 in Magna will be completely closed this weekend as workers replace pipes for the Kennecott mine.

The Bingham Canyon Mine won't get any deeper, but it might get wider than the current 2.5-mile span of the giant hole Rio ...

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Rio Tinto has completed the transition from conventional to renewable diesel for all heavy mining equipment at its Kennecott copper mine in Utah, giving the mine ...

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah mining company is offering a $20,000 early retirement bonus to reduce layoffs it says will be made necessary by a landslide that damaged an ore pit west of Salt Lake City.

Near Salt Lake City, Utah, in the US. Rio Tinto aims to strengthen its supply of copper in the US by increasing production from underground mining and improving the health of key assets in an area ...

SYDNEY, Oct 15 (Reuters) - Global miner Rio Tinto boosted its forecast copper output for 2013 after a better-than-expected recovery at its landslide-hit U.S. Kennecott mine, and posted record iron ore ...

At 13.2 million acres, Wrangell-St. Elias is the largest national park in the United States and covers roughly the same area as the next two biggest national parks combined (Denali and Gates of the ...