Loading ...is certainly Bingham Canyon Mine in Utah. I was blown away at the scale of the pit and the refinery tower too. (25 miles of conveyor belts connecting the two). The smokestack is something like the 5th-tallest structure in the Western Hemisphere. The Mormons made out like bandits after they got kicked out of Navoo, Illinois and there’s been something like 8.5 billion dollars of gold mined out of the hole since the army help the Bingham brothers get the mine going. Now the Mormons have an empire.
The biggest mine I’ve ever seen
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