McCARTHY — Twenty years after acquiring the massive ruins of the Kennecott copper mines, the National Park Service has finally figured out a way to preserve the historic company town and tell ...

Chuck Hawley, longtime observer and sometime participant in Alaska's rich mining history, recalls this disaster in his thorough, expert new history of the corporation, "A Kennecott Story: Three ...

Wrangell St Elias is the largest and one of the most remote National Parks in America. It’s so large that you can fit si ...

In Alaska, 195 mi. up the winding Copper River Valley, is Kennecott, a raw mining town sprawled on the edge of what was once the richest copper mine in North America. Alexander Baranof, first ...

Five Kennecott mines were built and in operation until 1938. They were fabulous wealth creators for their owners, and became the cornerstone of Kennecott Copper Corporation (1915).

Ultimate Adventure visit the edge of Alaska. Copper River to Kennecott Mine on Day 4 of Ultimate ... The road was originally constructed in 1909 as a railway to support the Kennecott Copper Mines.

Copper ore was first discovered on the site in the late 1800's and mining began in 1906. In the 1930's, the Utah Copper Company built a mining town near Kennecott.

Utah jumped to second in a federal database of states’ total toxic chemical releases – a rise mostly attributable to the Bingham Canyon Mine, according to the EPA.

One of two existing copper smelters is at Kennecott. The mine operates 24 hours a day, 365 days a year with 2,500 employees. Kenecott has a brand new Visitor's Experience where a shuttle will take ...