Show GREAT MINING STATE some idea of the magnitude effay and importance ys aa of tha mineral resources waw and mining waif industry of utah may be had from a volume just published a a as pr paper 4 by the 27 united states geological survey de apartment part ment of the interior entitled the ore deposits j of utah by B S butler G F loughlin V C halkes and others the volume con talus nearly quarto pages and ag many maps sitf and other illustrations sai including a geologic vacyl vay map vs of utah and i brings together practically all available 4 a information on the aw ore s de kf posits aff of the state especially as re gards their geologic relations isow the report consists wv of wy two parts part w I 1 deals with the geography and geology of was utah as A S whole MT and de v scribes the ore deposits by classes and 7 the manner g in which they 2 were formed fey it contains also a history of mining developments in the state and 7 very fe full data on its 2 metallic output it shows that in 7 value the 7 metal saffy having the m largest 0 output Is copper which Is very closely way tS follo afier vr ed by s iver lead follows wilvy then gold ez and last jay lagging far sy behind the others comes zinc s in productivity as r measured by value of arff output the west mountain or bingham district easily leads acy its output being about twice that ty of ane tintie district the output 0 of park city f district Is aery W nearly equal to that a of the and Is greater than the combined w output of all the other districts a in the state except t the ff and the bingham rw as measured by value nearly half 7 the metal produced in the state ay has come from the bingham district 0 esra the wv district has produced more gold than any other district in ene state but its record Is nearly equaled by that of bingham a the park city district leads in the output of silver w but the ff gintic tintic r Is a close wt second wc in output awer of copper the bing ham district Is far ahead more aj vy than five jr sixths of the copper produced yay in utah comes from this district practically all seaf of se wf the minerals that occur in utah waier in connection Wa with the sw ore jy deposits a are listed aw aaa and described and a the relations of the w various classes raaf of ore deposits to geologic structure al and igneous rw in trus lons are fully discussed av fe |