Bingham Open Pit Mine

Bingham Open Pit Mine is a producer of gold, silver, molybdenum, copper in Salt Lake County, Utah, in USGS's large output class. USGS records production from 1868. It is one of 166 historic gold producers USGS lists in Salt Lake County, and number 1 when they are sorted by output class.

Facts

USGS status
Producer
Output class
large (USGS class)
Commodities
Gold, Silver, Molybdenum, Copper, Zinc, Platinum, Bismuth, Lead, Selenium, Tellurium, Nickel, Palladium
Deposit type
Porphyry Cu
Workings
Surface
Production years
from 1868
Discovered
1863
County
Salt Lake County
State
Utah
Land status (BLM data)
Private land or land not mapped as public
USGS record
10069296

Source: USGS Mineral Resources Data System (retrieved 2026-10-13). The database was last updated around 2011, positions can be approximate, and "producer" does not mean a mine is operating today. "Output class" is a code whose meaning changed over the years, so compare sites inside this data and do not read it as tonnage.

Land status comes from the BLM Surface Management Agency dataset and can be out of date. Check ownership before you go near any mine site.

Gold sites nearby

124 other USGS gold sites within 12 miles. The Salt Lake County page lists the biggest.