{"id":37821,"date":"2021-06-04T07:50:10","date_gmt":"2021-06-04T07:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/?p=37821"},"modified":"2021-06-04T07:50:10","modified_gmt":"2021-06-04T07:50:10","slug":"2021-bingham-canyon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2021\/06\/04\/2021-bingham-canyon\/","title":{"rendered":"The 31 May 2021 landslide at the Bingham Canyon mine"},"content":{"rendered":"

The 31 May 2021 landslide at the Bingham Canyon mine<\/h4>\n

At 9 am local time on 31 May 2021 a large landslide occurred at the Rio Tinto Kennecott mine at Bingham Canyon in Utah, USA.\u00a0 This site is famous for one of the largest mining induced landslides ever recorded<\/a>, and indeed one of the largest recent landslides in North America<\/a>, in April 2013.\u00a0 Fortunately this landslide is on a far smaller scale.<\/p>\n

Once again, geotechnical monitoring at the site identified the instability prior to the failure, allowing the operators to ensure that no-one was at risk.<\/p>\n

Fox 13<\/a> has posted a pair of images of the landslide:-<\/p>\n

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The 31 May 2021 landslide at the Rio Tinto Kennecott mine at Bingham Canyon. Images posted by Fox 13<\/a>.<\/p><\/div>\n

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I also managed to download a pair of Planet Labs<\/a> images of the site, before and after the failure – these should be visible used the slider below:<\/p>\n

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The image on the left was collected on 28 May 2021 and the one on the right on 31 May 2021.\u00a0 South is towards the top of the images.<\/p>\n

The images suggest that the main part of the landslide, on the right side in the slide in the pictures, was a wedge failure that appears to be quite deep-seated.\u00a0 There is a smaller wedge on the left side too.<\/p>\n

In its statement to the NASDAQ<\/a>, the operator of the Bingham Canyon mine has confirmed that operations continue to be unaffected by the landslide.<\/p>\n

The mining industry is the most advanced industry in terms of geotechnical monitoring of slope deformation and failure prediction.\u00a0 Once again this event appears to have been a successful application of those technologies.<\/p>\n

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Reference<\/h4>\n

Planet Team (2021). Planet Application Program Interface: In Space for Life on Earth. San Francisco, CA. https:\/\/www.planet.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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