SALT LAKE CITY, Utah--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Rio Tinto has approved construction of a new 25-megawatt solar plant at its Kennecott copper operation in Utah, bringing the mine’s total solar capacity to 30MW.

Utah jumped to second in a federal database of states’ total toxic chemical releases – a rise mostly attributable to the Bingham Canyon Mine, one of the largest open-pit copper mines in the world. The ...

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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 one of the lowest carbon footprints of ...

With a goal of continuing decarbonization, Rio Tinto Kennecott announced Thursday it signed a 15-year power purchase agreement with TerraGen for renewable energy from a newly completed wind farm in ...

The city of Magna, Utah, was once the home of a major coal-fired power plant that provided electricity for Rio Tinto’s enormous copper mine next door. But in 2019, the company shuttered the last of ...

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Over the past decade, Rio Tinto Kennecott — home to the world’s deepest open pit mine — has taken massive strides in reducing its carbon footprint. Kennecott in 2019 shut down its last coal-fired ...

(AP) The landslide that washed over the terraced steps of a mining pit nearly a mile deep left only the tip of one giant electric-powered shovel poking out of the dirt. The rubble buried three of them ...