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Show MINING IN UTAH (From "Wealth and Resources Re-sources of Utah", a recently compiled booklet published by the Utah Department of Publicity Pub-licity and Industrial Development.) Develop-ment.) Utah is prb-eminently a mining min-ing state. Approximately 50 per cent of the state's population obtains ob-tains a living from this basic in-i in-i dustry. For many years Utah has been one of the most important non-frrous metal mining states in the Union, and with the tremendous tre-mendous potentialities as a producer pro-ducer of iron, light metals and a great variety of non-metallic minerals same of which are just beginning to be developed the state's continuing place as one of the nation's primary milliner mill-iner I'pntiTQ lOAinl asiirtiH i throughout the foreseeable future. fu-ture. In 1943 Utah produced 2!). 7 per cent of the nation's copper; 27.98 I per cent of the gold; 22.5 per cent of the silver; 14.84 per cent of ' the lead; 6.31 per cent of the zinc. The value of these metals was $124,348,439, or 20.96 per cent of ' i the nation's total. In March, 1944, there were 11,493 men employed in Utah's metal mines, and the i first-quarter payroll was $7,332,- : 483. The principal non-ferrous metal me-tal mines are located in the Bing- ham, Park City and Tintic dis- I tricts. lhe Utah Copper com-j com-j pany's mine at Bingham is the j largest surface copper mine in North America It produces most of the state's Copper as well as a large part of its gold. The Park City and Tintic districts are heavy producers of silver, lead and zinc. These metallic ores are treated in concentrating mills at Magna, Arthur and Bauer, and in smelters smelt-ers at Garfield, Murray, Midvale and Tooele these comprising the largest non-ferrous smelting center in the world. The major iron ore deposits of Utah are in Iron and Washington counties. Estimates of the reserves reserv-es of ore containing 50 per cent or more iron range from 88,200,-000 88,200,-000 to 1 10,000,000 long tons. This, I together with the presence of large deposits' of coking coal, and I limestone, has made economical-! economical-! ly possible the development of an iron and steel industry in the state. The Columbia Steel company com-pany at Ironton has been producing pro-ducing pig-iron from native materials ma-terials for nearly 20 years, and the huge plant of the Geneva i Steel company at Geneva began I operations early in 1944. The annual an-nual capacity of these plants is 1,654,000 tons of pig-iron. Open-hearth Open-hearth capacity at the Geneva Steel plant upon final comple-I comple-I tion will be 1.200,000 tons of steel : ingots annually. Most of North America's domestic do-mestic vanadium ores are found in southeastern Utah and adjoin-I adjoin-I ing areas of the three neighboring neighbor-ing states. Tungsten-bearing ores occur widely in Utah and are being mined on a small scale in several sections. Magnesium, aluminum, potash metals of the future are found in various forms in Utah. Recently, operations of the Utah Magnesium Corporation near Thompson revealed the presence of magnesium in fabulous quantity. quan-tity. Alumina a being made from alunite ore by Kalunite, Inc. at a plant near Salt Lake City. The ore comes from deposits at Marys-I Marys-I vale. The alumina is shipped to the Northwest for refining into aluminum. Gilsonite, an asphaltic substance, sub-stance, occurs in the Uintah Basin Ba-sin area of Utah, and nowhere else in the world. It is used in i acid-proof paints, insulating materials, ma-terials, preservatives, plastics and mastics. Ozokerite, a mineral wax, is found near Soldier Summit. Sum-mit. It is used in candles, ointments oint-ments and the like. In the Grand-San Grand-San Juan county region, uranium, a radium-bearing ore, is found in important quantities. Oil shales in the Uintah Basin contain 25,680,000,000 barrels of recoverable oil, according to careful estimates. This section of Utah, with the contiguous parts of Colorado and Wyoming, contain con-tain 87 per cent of all the oil shale in the United States- Phosphates, used in fertilizers, clays for brick and related products; pro-ducts; lime, gypsum, Portland cement; silica; salt; sulpjiur; a great variety of stone, including granite, marble, travertine, onyx, limestone, sandstone; and many I other non-metallics are present in great abundance in this richly rich-ly endowed mineral state. As Utah's mining development proceeds, there is a comparable expansion of community building build-ing in remote, though pleasant i mountain localities. |