One of the Richest GOLD COPPER Discoveries in American History

One of the RICHEST GOLD COPPER DISCOVERIES in American History In 1848, two brothers found ore in a quiet Utah canyon and were told to walk away. That canyon became the richest hole on Earth. This is the story of Bingham Canyon, one of the richest gold-copper discoveries in American history. By most accounts, it has produced more copper than any other mine ever dug, along with roughly 23 million ounces of gold. And yet you could crack open rock after rock here and never see a single flake of that gold. So how did a mountain of "worthless" low-grade rock outshine the Comstock Lode, the Klondike, and the California Gold Rush combined? It took Union soldiers, a forgotten discovery, a young engineer everyone doubted, a town swallowed by its own mine, and one of the largest landslides in North American history. In this video: • How Civil War-era soldiers staked Utah's first mining claim • Why Bingham's gold is invisible, and what a jawbreaker has to do with it • Daniel Jackling's "worthless" plan that changed copper mining worldwide • The boomtown the pit ate • The 2013 landslide that could have buried Central Park, and why no one was hurt • The year the richest hole on Earth went silent • Why the story is now heading underground Which American mine should we explore next? Tell us in the comments. You're watching Geoscope, where we take apart the places the Earth built only once. If that's your kind of thing, subscribe. SOURCES • Bingham Canyon Mine, Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bingham... • Bingham Canyon, Utah History Encyclopedia: https://www.uen.org/utah_history_ency... • Daniel C. Jackling, Encyclopaedia Britannica • Rio Tinto Kennecott, company history and operations updates #BinghamCanyon #CopperMining #GoldMining