The giant landslide

April 11 to the southwest of Salt Lake City, Utah, USA. On copper career Kennecott Utah Copper Bingham Canyon Mine was a powerful opolzen.

The quarry belongs to the Rio Tinto Group, the international mining companies with headquarters in the UK. Shares of Rio Tinto fell to 0, 5% on news the company that it suspend work in Bingham Canyon, presumably, a few mesyatsev.

Bingham Canyon - the deepest in the world among mining quarries, its size - about a kilometer in depth, about 4 km in diameter (the famous kimberlite pipe "Mir" in Yakutia has a depth of 525 m and a diameter of 1, 2km). Mining started here 150 years - in 1863. Transportation of ore is now carried out 64 huge pit dump trucks, each capable of carrying 231 tons of ore per trip (a few of them can be seen in the second picture, swept away by the flow of rock) .

About the victims of the landslide is not informed, despite the fact that his career worked about 1,400 people. Miners were ready to adverse developments, as the information about dangerous driving - several inches per day - a wall fragment career came in February, but the measures taken to strengthen its results are not dali.

Subsidence wall career lasted several days, and the company has yet to assess the damage from the devastation of dead machinery and equipment, and gone into a collapse of industrial buildings.

Source: mirfactov.com/