By Leigh Dethman Deseret News Acres of Salt Lake County open space could end up as Kennecott Utah Copper Corp.'s newest mine. Earlier this week, mine officials filed a notice of intent to locate mineral claims on 80 acres of the county's Yellow Fork Canyon land.

By Stephen Speckman Deseret News Kennecott Utah Copper Corp. still has decades of cleanup to do, but it now looks like a large area in the southwest portion of the Salt Lake Valley won't be put on a federal list of sites that are considered to be the most polluted in the country.

By Stephen Speckman Deseret News In recent years, Kennecott Utah Copper has been cleaning up about two square miles of polluted groundwater located mostly in an unincorporated area of Salt Lake County.

By Olson, Debbi Since 1906 Kennecott Utah Copper's Bingham Canyon Mine has been an important player in Utah's economy by being a major employer, a major supplier of resources used by members of the community and through its philanthropic contributions into the community.

By Steven Oberbeck, The Salt Lake Tribune Mar. 11--Kennecott Utah Copper, a wholly owned subsidiary of Rio Tinto, said it plans to invest $73 million to buy machinery and equipment to accelerate operations at its Bingham Canyon Mine on the eastern slope of the Oquirrh Mountains.