Show Its It's Raining Liquid Gold Underground gl in hi Utah Mille f sir e 4 p I s II IIi i Ji- Ji y v r V Miner l 1960 feet below surface at Silver King JUng Mine Park City district The flow of water shows how Utah Mine problems increase with depth Water the liquid gold to Utah's economy is becoming more and more a problem to the mining industry in the extraction of the States State's mineral resources As the mines sink progressively deeper in their quest for metals the inexorable supply of water in in- in creases Naturally the pumping Dumping adds greatly to the costs inherent in deeper mining A striking example of this is the Silver King Coalition mine at Park Cit City Utah a mine that has been in almost continuous production production tion for 75 years The Silver King has driven over miles of underground underground underground under under- ground workings during this period in order older to keep oe o e c reserves ahead of production The 01 ore e has led the Silver King deeper and deeper and further into the mountains to the west of the town of Park City until today a n depth of 1000 has been reach reach- ed On the foot level the Silver Silver Sil SiJ- Sil- Sil ver King encountered a new ore body but with it came a tremendous tremendous tremendous dous flow of water wO It required nearly 2 years and the expenditure of thousands of dollars to lick the water problem problem problem lem on this level so that valuable ore could be lifted to the surface A flow of gallons allons nor ncr minute is being pumped from this bottommost bottommost bottommost bottom bottom- most part of the mine It is is raised feet to the thet 1300 foot level where it is permitted to drain out the Spiro tunnel The Silver King is pumping enough water to irrigate acres acrs of farm lahd This in itself is is' is a valuable resource to Utah's semiarid semiarid semiarid semi- semi arid land but we must keep the mine in operation to make the water available |