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Copper Mines at Bingham, Utah (1912)
Short | Documentary, Short

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Copper Mines at Bingham, Utah (1912)

Short | Documentary, Short

You haven't seen the real west until you have visited Bingham, Utah, where the largest copper mine in the world is. Never been to the city of Bingham which has the proud distinction of being six miles long and sixty feet wide? Then just ...See moreYou haven't seen the real west until you have visited Bingham, Utah, where the largest copper mine in the world is. Never been to the city of Bingham which has the proud distinction of being six miles long and sixty feet wide? Then just keep your eyes on the motion picture screen and see how they tear down the mountain and also tear it up, digging and blasting it and carrying it away in cars. Next to the Panama Canal this is the largest engineering operation in the world. Witness twenty-two railroad tracks, one above the other, view the aerial tram carrying hundreds of buckets of gold, silver and copper up over your heads. Blast after blast rock the mountain at high noon. Men hurry for shelter when the shrill whistles send forth their warning from mountain peak to rocky pit. Huge steam shovels grasp gold and copper besprinkled Mother Earth within their iron jaws and lift her roughly into little cars which rush and rock around the mountain sides and then lay their precious burden down at the smoke dimmed, roaring furnace month. Night and day this gigantic toil goes on. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less