MAGNA, Utah (AP) -- Kennecott Utah Copper Corp. is building a $340 million molybdenum smelter in Magna, driven by strong demand for the steel alloy in China and India. The project had been on hold ...

This story is part of The Salt Lake Tribune’s ongoing commitment to identify solutions to Utah’s biggest ... development for copper at Rio Tinto, said Kennecott’s smelter produces 99% ...

Nov 13 (Reuters) - Rio Tinto's Kennecott copper smelter may toll third-party concentrate ... five sources said. The Utah plant has bought external concentrate, an intermediate product that ...

[Subscribe to our newsletter here] Utah’s Kennecott mine on the west side ... The only other copper smelter in the country is in Globe, Ariz., which is far from Arizona’s population centers.

MAGNA, Utah (AP) -- Kennecott Utah Copper Corp. says it will build a molybdenum smelter near Magna. Molybdenum, a byproduct of copper production, is used in high-strength steel alloys. It's also a ...

Kennecott Utah Copper has asked 2,100 of its own employees ... Workers are being reassigned, and the company is working off a stockpile. A copper smelter is operating at reduced levels.

MAGNA, Utah (KUTV) — A worker was hospitalized after being shocked at the Kennecott smelter while performing maintenance work. According to officials, the incident occurred around 3 p.m. last ...

Herriman, UTAH – The demand for copper ... At more than 120 years old, the mine has produced more copper than any other on the planet. "The history of Kennecott is what keeps me here.

Kennecott produces 12 percent of the copper in the United States and is the only U.S. producer with a completely integrated supply chain, from the mine to the concentrator to the smelter to the ...

Kennecott’s Bingham Canyon Mine had the ... that’s second only to an open-pit copper mine, smelter and rod mill about 80 ...

Rio Tinto (RIO.AX), opens new tab said on Tuesday it will replace its entire fossil diesel consumption with renewable diesel at the Kennecott copper operation in Salt Lake City, Utah from 2024.