Kennecott Copper Mines..a fascinating place!

Kennecott was a highlight of the week. The hole in the mountain was dug out by man, one explosion and one dump truck at a time. The copper is put through a series of processes and transported from one location to another until the copper is pure and in large sheets ready to use in our everyday appliances and modern technology. The wheel below is the actual size of the dump truck wheel that transports the broken fragments of rock blasted from the mountain.