Trip to the Copper Mine

I have been trying to think of some cheap fun things to take the kids to this summer. We went to Hill Air Force Museum a few months ago, and I plan on taking them to Fort Douglas Museum in a few weeks. We went up to Kennecott Copper mine and checked out the Visitor Center.

Both the kids thought it was pretty cool to see the big tire, and they couldn't believe when we looked into the mine and could see the actual trucks working. The mine is almost 2 miles across, and the trucks look like little toy ants from that far away.

After looking into the mine, we went into the visitors center and checked out all the cool displays. There were a lot of models of how a mine works, along with several samples of what each mineral looks like in it's raw state.

Bradley really liked the display that showed how Copper is used in just about everything from Cars, Airplanes, and Electronics. There is even Copper everywhere inside our house.

Well, we can check that one off the list. The kids really enjoyed it, and actually learned something.