Legal Opinion
Freeman Gulch Mining Co. v. Kennecott Copper Corp.
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Decided March 19, 1941No. 2216PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
PHILLIPS, Circuit Judge.
The Kennecott Copper Corporation1 is the owner and operator of a large scale open pit copper mining operation in Bing-ham Canyon, Salt Lake County, Utah, commonly known as the Utah Copper mine. It is one of the largest open pit mines in the world. Its employees number approximately 4,000 and its monthly payroll is approximately $600,000. In the year 1939, it removed 19 million tons of ore. The ore is low grade and large scale operations are essential to' the profitable mining thereof. To secure access to the commercial copper ore, a large -amount of superimposed…
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