2019 Bingham Academic Decathlon Team Takes State by Scott Crump   Congratulations go to the Bingham High School Academic Decathlon team which won the state tournament held in St George on March 7, 8 and 9, 2019.  With 41,814 points, the Miner decathletes captured their fifth state title.  Lone Peak High finished in second place with 41,798 points and DaVinci Academy of Ogden came in third with 40,060 points.  The Miners won their state championship by one of the narrowest margins in state history—one question out of the possible 2,680 questions answered.  The victorious Miner team won over 39 medals in the 10 subject areas of the competition which, this year, centered on the 1960s in American History.  The team won every gold medal possible in the subject areas of Art, Mathematics and Economics.  Allison Argueta won the top scholar award for Bingham’s team amassing 7,956 points and won a team high of 7 medals.  Isaac Cutler, competing...

LADY MINERS WIN STATE BASKETBALL CHAMPIONSHIP TAYLORSVILLE — Losers on consecutive nights to both Fremont and Copper Hills in early December, the Bingham girls basketball team flipped the table in a big way in becoming the ultimate winner in late February. The stage this time was the 6A state championship, which the Miners took with a 46-41 win over the Grizzlies on Saturday, a night after taking a 46-42 win over Fremont. "It feels amazing. We've worked so freaking hard for this and it's great to see it pay off," said Bingham senior Maggie McCord during Bingham's championship celebration. "We deserve it. We worked so hard this season and I'm so glad I could experience this with my teammates for my final year." As for McCord, she hardly could have proved more clutch down the stretch and throughout the tournament. The senior guard led all scorers with 25 points in Saturday's win, with six of those coming by virtue of foul shots during the game's final minute and a...

Steve Saltas and Vince Christensen received the 2018 Candlelight Service Award at the 82nd Annual Candlelight Concert at Bingham High December 17, 2018. Steve and Vince were instrumental in lighting the Bingham B on the side of the Oquirrh Mountains. Thank you Steve and Vince for your dedicated service to Bingham High. Steve Saltas grew up in Leadmine and is a 1978 graduate of Bingham High. Vince graduated from Spanish Fork High but is now a true Miner!

Legendary Bingham High School and West Jordan Junior High School teacher, Lowell P. Hicks died on February 20, 2018 at the age of 104.  Lowell Hicks is best known for writing the music to Bingham High School's Hymn, "We'll Always Remember" back in 1953.   He returned many times to Bingham High to play the hymn on the marimba and recount his days at Bingham High.  He was two months short of 102, the last time he came back to our school.   He was awarded the Candlelight Service Award in 1991 for his outstanding service to Bingham High.   A summary of his accomplishments is listed below: Bingham High music teacher (1952-1958) Composed the music for Bingham High’s school hymn, “We’ll Always Remember” (1953) Opened West Jordan Junior High in 1958 and taught music there for 13 years Retired from Union Junior High in 1976 Member of the Utah Symphony Orchestra  Helped students to appreciate music on a grand scale as an important...

Check out our 2017 Fall Miner Details for information about what is going on at Bingham High.   Click on the Newsletters-Miner Details box at the top of this webpage and scroll down to 2017 Fall Miner Details.  

2017 Cleaning and Whitewashing 0f the B On September 30, 2017 the annual cleaning and whitewashing of the B took place. Around 50 specially selected students were privileged to take part in this 90 year old Bingham tradition. After being briefed on the history of this Bingham landmark at the new Bingham High, the students rode a bus to Copperton where they visited the site of the Bingham High building located there from 1931 to 2002. They then were given a tour of the Copperton Concentrator by officials at Rio Tinto/Kennecott before riding to the B. A new feature of this year's whitewashing was the road that Kennecott constructed to the bottom of the block B. This new pathway zigzagged its way from the old Bingham and Garfield railroad bed (located several hundred feet below the base of the B) right up to the B itself. This made hiking a lot safer and whitewashing more convenient. After a truck carrying the cleaning materials parked right next to the B the students unloaded the...

LET’S LIGHT THE B FOR ALL TO SEE The Bingham High School "B" has been a part of Salt Lake Valley's Oquirrh Mountains since 1927. It is located near the birthplace of Bingham High School in Bingham Canyon, Utah.  BHS students, alumni and friends of Bingham High have started a project to raise funds to purchase lights and wiring to light this important part of Utah history. It would be a part of future celebrations at Bingham High as all eyes could turn to the Jumbotron in the football stadium and watch as the proud B high on the Oquirrh Mountains lights up beaming yet another Bingham victory across the Salt Lake Valley. The owners of the land on which the "B" was built, Kennecott Rio Tinto, have agreed to continue to allow students to annually maintain the 100' by 80' monument. An access road was built for maintenance purposes. Kennecott/Rio Tinto has even agreed to install the conduit and lights and to provide power from the nearby concentrator facility. Over 40,000 students...

Bingham High Pay Dirt Club 2017           A miner in the early days of Bingham Canyon, who struck it rich was said to have struck pay dirt.  Those miners would take a mule, shovel, pick and dynamite along with a drill bit and double jack and work hundreds of hours drilling, blasting and shoveling.  With a combination of hard work and little bit of luck a miner might find a rich vein of gold silver of copper ore.  This was “dirt” that paid him money or pay dirt.  Striking pay dirt symbolizes a successful miner.  Because of this, Bingham High School’s Hall of Fame is called the Pay Dirt Club.   Two successful Bingham Miners, James Margetts (Class of 1985) and Robin Pilcher (Class of 1970) were formally inducted into the Bingham High School Pay Dirt Club at the homecoming assembly on September 12, 2017. James Margetts (Class of 1985)           Jim Margetts...

Happy Birthday Bingham High. It is hard to believe that you are 109 years old today (September 9, 2017) --five locations and over 40,000 graduates later.