This morning was an odd day with one less soccer game and so we decided to load up the family and head out to the Kennecot Copper Mine that is just 30 minutes away from the house. David has never been and it's been 15 years since I had been out to see the mine and visitors center. The kids moaned and groaned about "family time" as usual, but as usual we took them anyway and they quite enjoyed themselves. I highly recommend it as a morning trip for anyone!
We started off by looking into the large pit mine. You can watch all the huge trucks hauling stuff out of the mine, or the trucks watering the roads so they don't get so dusty.
You can see all the tiers of excavation they have done over the 100+ years of mining. You can see the conveyor belts carrying debris up to the smasher thingy. It's all pretty amazing.
There is also a visitors center that details the history of the mine and the amazing technology they use now to mine more efficiently. It also showed how many products use the things mined there. They mine much more than copper out there.
The kids thought the life size tire of the trucks they have there was incredible. It was 16 feet in diameter and in the visitors center we learned that they now have trucks with 20 foot tires on them!
Austin seemed especially interested once we got there. He enjoyed using the viewfinder to watch the activities and paid particular attention to the presentations and displays in the visitors center. So he's now our family expert on the mine and all that goes on there! All in all a fun morning activity for us!
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That place is pretty darn amazing!
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