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Open pit steam shovel Utah 1906
Open pit steam shovel Utah 1906
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Heading: (Utah)
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Title: Original photograph of a steam shovel used by Boston Consolidated Mining Company in open pit operations in Bingham Canyon, Utah
Place Published: Utah
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Date Published: c.1906
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Gelatin silver photograph. 20x24 cm (8x9¼"), on original card-stock mount. 



Photograph of an historic Marion Steam Shovel Model 91, in use by the Boston Consolidated Mining Company, along with a steam engine on parallel tracks. Utah Copper and Boston Consolidated merged after their separate surface operations approached each other in 1906. The very first large-scale open-pit copper operation in the world was in Bingham Canyon on March 1906. They started using steam shovels and the railroad. 

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