So we have decided that we want to make sure we go visit the places of Utah that people come to see when they come to tour Utah. I think it would be pretty crazy to live here for at least 1/4 of the my life and not have gone and seen the Golden Spike (We saw that last year) and Kennecott Copper Mine (Largest Man Made Thing). There were tour buses up there with a lot of Asian people, so we knew that it must be worth seeing.
It just had layer upon layers that they had dug out, and it was impossible to get the whole mine in one pictures. You'll just have to go to get the full magnitude.
They had a museum and movie that you could watch about how they mine copper. Once the dirt that they have dug out has been refined over and over it ends up being this sheet of 99.9% copper. I took a picture of this dinosaur skull because it was discovered down around where Trav is from.
There was a cool little fact that I learned. They made all the 2002 Salt Lake Olympic medals out of gold, silver, and bronze that was mined at Kennecott Copper Mine. It is the only Olympic Host that had Medals made in the same location as the games were hosted!
This is the tire that are on the trucks that hold all the dirt that is mined. As you can see it is gigantic.
This was the best picture that we got of the mine. It was awesome to learn that it is the only man made thing that you can actually see from SPACE!!! I do recommend you go and see it. It is a pretty inexpensive date and a good time!
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