Rio Tinto to resume operation in Kennecott copper smelter in US
2017-11-25

Nov. 25, 2017 - Rio Tinto restarted the smelter at its Kennecott mine in Utah after a nearly six-week outage but sets no timeline for lifting its force majeure on refined copper from the plant.

Rio stopped production of refined copper at the smelter on October 8 when a worker died after being exposed to sulfur dioxide gases while removing debris from a boiler; mining and milling operations had continued while the smelter was down, with ore being stockpiled for later processing.

Rio Tinto to resume operation in Kennecott copper smelter in US 2017-11-25

Rio Tinto to resume operation in Kennecott copper smelter in US
2017-11-25