Kennecott Utah Copper's Bingham Canyon Mine Slide

[Ah Pook]

That is a lot of dirt moving around. [Eek2]

http://www.ksl.com/index.php?nid=460&sid=24748916&page=1
http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865578042/Kennecott-confirms-significant-landslide-at-Bingham-Canyon-Mine.html

http://localtvkstu.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/kennecott-before-after.jpg?w=660&h=315
http://www.deseretnews.com/images/article/midres/1117357/1117357.jpg
http://www.deseretnews.com/images/article/midres/1117353/1117353.jpg
http://www.deseretnews.com/images/article/midres/1117359/1117359.jpg

[Skully]

Considering the size of those dirt haulers in the last pic that gives you a mind-boggling perspective of that whole thing, DAMMMM!

[bryjcom]

Good thing they predicted it before it happened. Saved a lot of lives....

[bryjcom]

That reminds me. I'll bet copper scrap price is gonna go up after this. I should hit the scrap yard soon.

[sniper7]

ouch

[Bailey Guns]

Damn! That's a lotta dirt.

[Ah Pook]

Damn! That's a lotta dirt.
Idn't that a lotta dirt?!

[Tinelement]

Holy crapola!!!

[blacklabel]

That's wild. No luck finding any video of it though.

[Ah Pook]

That's wild. No luck finding any video of it though.
It all happened around 9:30 at night.