Rio Tinto Kennecott Awarded the Copper Mark for Responsible Mining
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The mining industry’s first and only independent program has for the second time awarded Rio Tinto Kennecott the Copper Mark — a certificate that demonstrates the site’s responsible production of copper and sustainable mining practices.
The Copper Mark was established in 2020 as an assurance framework for copper users to know how their copper is produced. Kennecott was the first recipient of the award and is one of the first to recertify. Every three years, mining sites must undergo a robust audit to keep their Copper Mark by meeting more than 30 environmental, social, and governance criteria.
“Being a responsible copper producer is essential to the longevity of our operations. How we operate matters as much as what we produce. We set ambitious environmental targets to continue reducing our carbon footprint and aim to demonstrate responsible management of natural resources to exceed the expectations of the community we work in,” said Rio Tinto Kennecott Managing Director Nate Foster.
“This wouldn’t be possible without the best people in our industry to make it happen,” added Foster.
Kennecott produces around 12 percent of the U.S. copper supply and is the only mine with a full value chain operation in America — from ore to 99.99 percent pure copper with byproducts of gold, silver, lead carbonate, platinum, palladium, selenium, molybdenum, and tellurium.
Rio Tinto Kennecott is a fully integrated mining operation just outside Salt Lake City, Utah, U.S. For more than 120 years, Kennecott has been mining and processing copper and other minerals including gold, silver, molybdenum, and tellurium from the rich ore body of the Bingham Canyon Mine. In addition to Bingham Canyon, Rio Tinto Kennecott operates other facilities, including a refinery, a concentrator, and one of only two operating copper smelters in the U.S.
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