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Show 4P April Energy UMA reviews Of the hundreds of known economic minerals, 75 are found in Utah and 14 have helped make the state a major producer on the national and world scale. Coal, copper, gold, silver, uranium, iron, lead, zinc, molybdenum, phos- phate, salt, potash, beryllium and gilsonite head the list. In about 1862, President Abraham Lincoln declared that "Utah will yet become the treasure house of the nation. The years have borne out Lincolns view, according to the Utah Mining Association. Pioneer settlers began harvesting salt from the Great Salt Lake in 1847, pointed out the UMA in reviewing the history of mining in the Btate. Stone, clay, sand, gravel and ?ement were used to build homes businesses, various wildings and churches. The Territorial Legislature in 1854 offered a $1,000 reward for the first commercial coal deposit within 40 miles of Salt Lake City. The reward went unclaimed until 1868 when the first coal for heating was shipped by wagon from Coalville in Summit 2002 past, present status of nation's 'treasure house' County it produced the first pig iron big producers of gold, silver, organized in 1870 and the at a hefty $40 a ton. west of the Mississippi. In 1863, soldiers stationed at Fort Douglas under the command of Colonel Patrick Connor were sent into the Oquirrh Mountains to explore for minerals. Discoveries led to the development of mines producing gold, silver, copper, lead and zinc, earning Connor the title, Fhther of Utah Mining." The abundant copper ore was largely ignored in the early days. It wasnt until the turn of the century when Daniel Jackling, a metallurgical engineer, developed a mass production method that commercial copper mining began. In 1864, explorers found rich silver, zinc and lead deposits in the Big and Little Cottonwood Canyon areas. Mountain Lake Mining District was organized in Big Cottonwood Canyon. Tooele County has 22 metal mining districts, more than any area in the state. The first districts organized were Rush Valley in 1864 and Ophir in 1870. Both became had been discovered in Carbon County in 1849, but the distance made it impractical for wagon haulage to Salt Coal Lake. The arrival of the Union Pacific Railroad failed to lower the price of Coalville coal and it was not until the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad was built through Carbon County in 1883 that major production began locally. The D&RG broke up the UP monopoly and made coal available in Utah cities at a more reasonable price. The arrival of the D&RG brought about the development of several mines, explained the association. Quality and quantity make Utah coal the backbone of electrical generation. Today, Utah coal is shipped as far as the Pacific Rim through a unique loading facility at the Port of Los Ange- low-gra- les. Iron ore deposits were found near Cedar City in 1849, where the Pioneer Iron Com- pany built a crude foundry. While the small blast furnace only operated during 1852-53, de copper, lead and zinc. Camp Floyd district was discovered in 1870 with a rich surface deposit of silver ore. But when the ore ran out, the district was practically abandoned in 1874. In 1879, a Bavarian immigrant discovered gold ore on the western slopes of the Oquirrhs near Mercur and another boom was underway. Mercurs population reached from 4,000 to 6,000 during four "boom and bust periods. Mercurs prosperity was revived in 1985 by American Barrick Resources, which mined and reprocessed tailings Miller mine began operations. After producing hundreds of thousands of dollars in gold, silver and lead, the property was sold for $120,000 in 1871. The richest period of Utah Countys mineral history began with construction of the fronton blast ftirnace in 1923-2The operation became the property of U.S. Steel in 1930. A boost to tiie mining industry occurred in 1879, when the Utah Central Railroad reached Salt Lake from Prom- 4. ontory Point to the north along the Idaho border. It didnt take long for connecting lines to reach dozens of mining camps in the sur- from prior operations. By rounding mountains. 1998, the ore had been ex- -. Gold, silver, copper, lead and zinc mining were expanded hausted. About 1869, Park City dis- with deposits found in the trict was established and be- Tintic and Juab County discame one ofthe most outstandtricts in the 1870s lead In 1878, the railroad ing gold, silver, copper, reached Eureka district and and zinc producers in Utah. Mines in Summit County ores were shipped to points were mqjor like Swansea, Wales and Balprominerals like with ducers, oil, timore, Md., for smelting. 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