Top Ten Utah Mining Histories
Top Ten Mining Histories-UTAH

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Mining Districts of Utah (1982) Relief map base :

http://ugspub.nr.utah.gov/publications/economic_maps/M-51.pdf

Mining Districts of Utah (1983) with Metal occcurances :

http://geology.utah.gov/online/m/m-70.pdf

Non metallic mines for 1983:

http://geology.utah.gov/online/m/m-71.pdf

MP055 Selected Mining Districts in UT

http://ugspub.nr.utah.gov/publications/misc_pubs/MP-05-5.pdf

If you’ve never read anything yet on Utah mining, this is the one to pick up and start.
While it will only whet your appetite for more books to eyeball, it is the place to start.

0. PP111 The Ore Deposits of Utah

http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/pp111

http://www.archive.org/details/UsgsPp111TheOreDepositsOfUtah1920

This is the bible of Utah mining history. Covers the entire state, but was last updated in 1920, so does not cover several of the wonderful mineral discoveries and rediscoveries of the late 20th century.The companion volume for NM is: http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/pp68

The Bull 507 covers Mining Districts in the Western US:

http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/b507

Direct link:

http://pubs.usgs.gov/bul/0507/




Regional studies with more detail than PP111 for selected areas:

1. UGS Mining Districts of Utah UGA-32 Mining Districts of Utah

, edited by Roger L. Bon, Robert W. Gloyn, Gerald M. Park, 2006, $29.95

http://www.mapstore.utah.gov/uga32.html

While not as comprehensive in coverage as PP111, it is more detailed

http://www.utahgeology.org/uga32_TC.pdf

and up to date that PP111. Published by the UGA [the source for detailed and accurate information on utah mineral resources] one would hope that as state agencies go, that the UGS and UGA would cancel out some of the work the UDOGM AMRP is doing to destroy access to mineral information in this State.

2. PP107 Geology and Ore Deposits of the Tintic District

http://www.archive.org/details/UsgsPp107GeologyAndOreDepositsOfTheTinticDistrictUtah


covers North Tintic area currently a target for UT DOGM AMRP reclamation; Eureka and Mammoth, previous targets of UT DOGM AMRP erasures; and Silver City, also a target for UT DOGM AMRP reclamation
Read this to familarize yourself with the history and geology of an area that the State of Utah will soon seal and bury [backfill] forever

UPDATE: USGS PP 1024 is a modern update to PP107 but focuses on the East Tintic discoveries of the late 20th century.

http://ugspub.nr.utah.gov/publications/united_states_geological_survey/professional_papers/PP-1024.pdf

3. PP80 Geology and Ore Deposits of the San Francisco and adjacent mining districts of Utah by B.S. Butler, 1913

http://www.archive.org/details/UsgsPp80GeologyOreDepositsOfSanFranciscoMiningDistrictUtah

The ghost town of Frisco, Utah, is being threatened by State action. The UT DOGM AMRP feels that it has come time and it’s Frisco’s turn to be backfilled and buried. While they use the politically correct term “reclaim,” it is still murder by any measure and attempted obsfucation. They are hijacking history in the name of public safety.
A must read for the background on this colorfully and monumentally historic area under seige.

4. PP173 Geology and Ore Deposits of the Stockton-Fairfield Quadrangle, Utah

http://www.archive.org/details/UsgsPp173StocktonFairfield

This volume covers the Rush Valley area, site of Utah’s earliest mining boom, which UT DOGM AMRP has obstensively named Kessler in order to confound and confuse us into thinking they are reclaiming something other than the very first and earliest record of Utah mining. Also covers the Ophir and Jacob City areas, which UT DOGM AMRP has already killed and bulldozed under, although signs of life are recropping and poking up in these areas.
Also covers the Mercur area, doubly sad because UT DOGM AMRP had an accomplice in Barrick Resources to help them kill history and erase any evidence thereof in the area. A whole ghost town will be reseeded

http://www.ellsworthandassociates.com/projects_barrickmercur.html


so visitors will have no idea of what historically went on there.

5. PP177 The Gold Hill Mining District of Utah

http://www.archive.org/details/UsgsPp177TheGoldHillMiningDistrictUtah1935



Dutch Mountain is the next phase of UT DOGM AMRP’s plan to erase the rich mining history of Utah’s west desert. They have already backfilled

https://fs.ogm.utah.gov/pub/MINES/AMR/A045/915/

many of the mines in the Gold Hill area, but Dutch Mountain is scheduled for elimination next. It is almost as if they are doing these reclamations piecemeal, a part at a time, in order to gauge and check whether opposition materializes before proceeding with more. Maybe too its a budget constraint, but with the USG spending money like drunked sailor, we may soon see millions of dollars at a time being spent murdering minerals and backfilling books of history.

6. PP 415 Geology and Mineral Deposits of the Thomas and Dugway Ranges, Juab and Tooele Counties, Utah

http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/pp415




Utah’s modern mining boom centered around Uranium and Beryllium, both of which in addition to fluorite

http://ugspub.nr.utah.gov/publications/special_studies/SS-53.pdf

are found on Spor Mountain,
http://www.scribd.com/doc/6134839/Trace-Element-Investigation-of-Spor-Mountain-Juab-County-Utah

which, you guessed it, is a UT DOGM AMRP target for elimination.
Under the guise of public safety, they wish to readicate evidence of mining in this area to improve the visitor experience to the West Desert. That the state has put people in charge of mining to remove all evidence of mining is appalling. The fox is wearing a white hat and claiming that they are really on the side of the hens.

In addition to covering Spor Mtn, this volume also covers the Dugway geode beds, red beryl and topaz and bixbyite and many old famous mines like the Bertha and Four Metals. But the most interesting story behind this area is the use during Project Sphinx by the DoD of mines owned by the Cannon family. Mr. Cannon owned nearly 1,500 acres of mining land adjacent to the Dugway Proving Ground. There were 86.5 patented mining claims on the land, including the Yellow Jacket Mines, the Great Western Mines, and Old Ironsides Mine.

http://www.aggregat456.com/2009/12/sphinx-in-utah-desert.html

http://www.law.du.edu/documents/denver-university-law-review/v86-3/Sauer.pdf


See also this site for more info and photos of this area
http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/1998/ofr-98-0524/SPORMTN.HTM#anchor651640

7. PP38 Bingham Canyon

http://www.scribd.com/doc/3750306/USGS-PP38-Economic-Geology-of-Bingham-Canyon

Being swallowed by Rio Tinto’s efforts to mine Cu in Utah

8. PP77 Geology and Ore Deposits of the Park City District, Utah

http://www.scribd.com/doc/3748570/USGS-PP77-Geology-Ore-Deposits-of-the-Park-City-District-Utah



Skiing has supplanted mining as this area’s economic livelihood, and arson takes its toll of historic mining structures here.

9. PP201 Geology and ore deposits of the Cottonwood-American Fork area

, Utah, with sections on history and production.

http://www.adoptamine.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/USGS-201.pdf



TU, USFS and ski resorts have reclaimed much of this area already.

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11. Honorable Mention: From the Ground Up

While it does not live up to its billing as the first gap-filling survey and overview of mining in Utah, it is an admirable first step in the general direction, but it lacks needed coverage in many areas. However, it is available for free here:

http://digitalcommons.usu.edu/usupress_pubs/112/

Mining had an enormous role, only partly measurable, in the history of Utah. Its multidimensional impact continues today. Economically, it made a major long-term contribution to the wealth, employment, and tax base of the state and stimulated a seemingly endless range of secondary businesses and enterprises. It helped shape the state's social history, determining the location, distribution, and composition of many communities and bringing transportation systems and a wide variety of institutions to them. It developed cultural diversity by drawing to Utah miners and families from otherwise underrepresented ethnic and national backgrounds. It ignited strife, particularly between labor and management, but those issues often spread into or connected with other conflicts in and between communities, classes, and factions. It influenced political platforms, generated candidates, and helped decide elections. Throughout the state, mining dramatically transformed the landscape, most obviously at what has been called the world's largest open-pit mine, which removed much of a mountain on the west side of Salt Lake Valley, but at innumerable other places too. Despite all mining has done and meant, there has not been, until now, a book that surveyed its history in Utah. From the Ground Up fills that gap in a collection of essays by leading experts, among them historians Thomas G. Alexander, Martha Sonntag Bradley-Evans, James E. Fell Jr., Laurence P. James, Brigham D. Madsen, Philip F. Notarianni, Allen Kent Powell, W. Paul Reeve, Raye C. Ringholz, and Janet Burton Seegmiller and geologists J. Wallace Gwynn and William T. Parry. The book is divided into three comprehensive parts. The first looks at "The Ground of Utah Mining": the geology that has produced extractable minerals, the economic history of the industry, "father of Utah mining" Patrick E. Connor, and the lore of mines and miners. Part II reviews the history of a handful of particularly significant mineral industries: salines, coal, uranium, and beryllium. The last part takes a region-by-region approach to survey the important, primarily for hard-rock mining, areas of the state, including places from Silver Reef to Alta, the East Tintic Range to the Uinta Basin, and Park City to Frisco.