Show utah gold production tops nation utah topped the nation in 1913 gold production turning out worth of the metal the bureau of mines also announces that during the year utah produced worth of metallic minor miner als in nonmetallic non metallic miner miller fl ils and in fuels the total was the highest valued mineral production the state slate ever has produced in one year in other categories utah ranked second in copper with third in refined lead with first in native asphalt with and second in production of molybdenum and sliver silver values of which are aie withheld by the bureau for security reasons utah also was the nations sole producer of bitumen a fuel type mineral I 1 |