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Regarding the suggestion to merge this article with the Bingham Canyon article, the Kennecott Copper Mine is a definitely a distinct entity from Bingham Canyon. It should certainly be maintained as a separate article so that people looking for information on the mine don't have to know to go to the Bingham Canyon page to find it.
Although Bingham canyon is separate and distict from the actual mine, there shouldn't be a separate article. Almost all of Bingham Canyon has been enveloped by the mine, and the rest is filled with waste rock in the form of a dump. Bingham Canyon, in reality, doesn't exist separately from the mine. The articles should be combined.
It seems that at least one other mine ( Chuquicamata) makes the same claim to being the largest open cast mine in the world. While its entirely possible that Kennecott is the largest (by one measure or another) , this claim should be qualified with how the measure is defined (volume, surface area, depth etc..) . See Talk:Chuquicamata. Zootalures 23:48, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
Arguments to merge the mining operation and the geographic location ignore the fact that the mining has economic, sociological, and political significance distinct from the geographic. Those parts of the canyon that relate to the mine alone ought to be moved here, rather than the other way around, with a short explaantory reference to Kennecott at that place.
Keeping the mine's significance and the geographical feature's significance separate aids in avoiding distraction from each item's unique signficance and would result in a cleaner, clearer, better focused discussion in both places.
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Regarding the suggestion to merge this article with the Bingham Canyon article, the Kennecott Copper Mine is a definitely a distinct entity from Bingham Canyon. It should certainly be maintained as a separate article so that people looking for information on the mine don't have to know to go to the Bingham Canyon page to find it.
Although Bingham canyon is separate and distict from the actual mine, there shouldn't be a separate article. Almost all of Bingham Canyon has been enveloped by the mine, and the rest is filled with waste rock in the form of a dump. Bingham Canyon, in reality, doesn't exist separately from the mine. The articles should be combined.
It seems that at least one other mine ( Chuquicamata) makes the same claim to being the largest open cast mine in the world. While its entirely possible that Kennecott is the largest (by one measure or another) , this claim should be qualified with how the measure is defined (volume, surface area, depth etc..) . See Talk:Chuquicamata. Zootalures 23:48, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
Arguments to merge the mining operation and the geographic location ignore the fact that the mining has economic, sociological, and political significance distinct from the geographic. Those parts of the canyon that relate to the mine alone ought to be moved here, rather than the other way around, with a short explaantory reference to Kennecott at that place.
Keeping the mine's significance and the geographical feature's significance separate aids in avoiding distraction from each item's unique signficance and would result in a cleaner, clearer, better focused discussion in both places.