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Show UTAH MINERAL OUTPUT Utah's mineral production valuation .in 1972 has started to recover from its downward trend set in 1971....rose two percent to $536.8 million, a slight Increase over the $525.7 million in 71. This compares to 1970's financial tabulation of $601.9 million. Oarlton Stowe, staff spec-lalist, spec-lalist, Utah Geological Survey, in an analysis of U. S. Bur-eau Bur-eau of Mines preliminary data for 1972, reports that production produc-tion In the metals group remained re-mained about the same as in 1971 and accounted for 65 percent of the total value. Production Pro-duction 6f nrinenal fuels increased in-creased 5.6 percent and accounted ac-counted for 25 percent of the value, while non-metals in-creased in-creased 8.2 percent to about 10 percent of the value. |