Show utah is i key mining state the U S bureau of mines announces that total 1947 production of copper lead zinc gold and silver amounts to ISO arizona passed production by several million dollars however most of art ari zonas mineral production was cop copper er today utah ranks tanks first in ake the production of gold second in copper lead and silver and fifth in the production of zinc in th the e west utah ranks first in iron production with tons produced well over half the total western output and also prod products pees one fourth of all the coal mined in the west in addition utah has three ex elusive mineral products with a growing economic economic importance rock asphalt and gilsonite the mining industry in greatest basis asset |