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Bingham Canyon Mine in 1942
Bingham Canyon Mine in 1942

Bingham Canyon Mine, southwest of Salt Lake City, Utah, in November 1942. Several bridges were needed to get the mine's electric railway line to connect from the center of the open-pit mine to the surface. A train in the background of this image is hauling waste material out of the mine.

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