R. Eldon Bray

R. Eldon Bray, moved to Bingham Canyon, Utah in 1935 when he was one year old. He lived with his parents, two brothers, and sister on the Terrace Heights section of Copperfield until 1952 when his parents moved to Copperton. He attended and graduated from the Copperfield Grade School, Bingham High School, and the University of Utah.

In 1958 he married Zona Marshall in Salt Lake City. They have five children, all of whom are married, and thirty-one grandchildren.

After graduating from the University in 1959 he went to work as a geologist for Kennecott at Bingham. He also worked for Kennecott at a molybdenum mine in British Columbia and as an exploration geologist in several western states. In 1977 he left Kennecott to work in the uranium industry. He moved to Grand Junction, Colorado in 1979 to compile uranium ore reserves for the U.S. Department of Energy. Upon his retirement he remained in Grand Junction where he now resides.

Eldon's primary interest now is the History of Bingham Canyon and of Utah History in general. He has started a new blog which can be accessed through Google -- eldonbray.blogspot.com/The Bingham Copper Mine and Utah History; he also has a website -- http://www.binghamcanyon.net