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From the ground up the history of mining in Utah Cover Image E-book

From the ground up the history of mining in Utah

Whitley, Colleen 1940- (Added Author).

Summary: Despite all mining has done and meant in Utah, there has not been, until now, a book that surveyed its history in Utah. This collection of essays by leading experts is divided into three comprehensive parts. Part I looks at the geology that has produced extractable minerals, the economic history of the industry, 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.

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  • ISBN: 9780874215441
  • ISBN: 0874215447
  • Physical Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 506 pages, 3 unnumbered leaves of plates) : illustrations, maps (some color)
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  • Publisher: Logan, UT : Utah State University Press, ©2006.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note: I. The ground of Utah mining. Geology and Utah's mineral treasures / William T. Parry -- Generating wealth from the earth, 1847-2000 / Thomas G. Alexander -- General Patrick Edward Conner, father of Utah mining / Brigham D. Madsen -- The stories they tell / Carma Wadley -- II. Some mineral industries. Saline minerals / J. Wallace Gwynn -- Coal industry / Allan Kent Powell -- Uranium boom / Raye C. Ringholz -- Beryllium mining / Debra Wagner -- III. Major mining regions. Iron County / Janet Burton Seegmiller -- Bingham Canyon / Bruce D. Whitehead and Robert E. Rampton -- Silver Reef and southwestern Utah's shifting frontier / W. Paul Reeve -- Alta, the Cottonwoods, and American Fork / Laurence P. James and James E. Fell, Jr. -- Park City / Hal Compton and David Hampshire -- Tintic Mining District / Philip F. Notarianni -- San Francisco Mining District / Martha Sonntag Bradley-Evans -- Uinta Basin / John Barton.
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Reproduction Note:
Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010.
System Details Note:
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212
Language Note:
English.
Source of Description Note:
Print version record.

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