From the Ground Up : A History of Mining in Utah / edited by Colleen Whitley ; foreword by Philip F. Notarianni.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Book collections on Project MUSEPublisher: Logan, UT : Utah State University Press, 2006Manufacturer: Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2012Copyright date: ©2006Description: 1 online resource (508 pages): ill., maps (some col.)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780874215441
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 338.209792 22
LOC classification:
  • TN24.U8 F76 2006
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Contents:
I. The ground of Utah mining. Geology and Utah's mineral treasures / William T. Parry -- Generating wealth from the earth, 1847-2000 / Thomas G. Alexander -- General Patrick Edward Conner, father of Utah mining / Brigham D. Madsen -- The stories they tell / Carma Wadley -- II. Some mineral industries. Saline minerals / J. Wallace Gwynn -- Coal industry / Allan Kent Powell -- Uranium boom / Raye C. Ringholz -- Beryllium mining / Debra Wagner -- III. Major mining regions. Iron County / Janet Burton Seegmiller -- Bingham Canyon / Bruce D. Whitehead and Robert E. Rampton -- Silver Reef and southwestern Utah's shifting frontier / W. Paul Reeve -- Alta, the Cottonwoods, and American Fork / Laurence P. James and James E. Fell, Jr. -- Park City / Hal Compton and David Hampshire -- Tintic Mining District / Philip F. Notarianni -- San Francisco Mining District / Martha Sonntag Bradley-Evans -- Uinta Basin / John Barton.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 456-482) and index.

I. The ground of Utah mining. Geology and Utah's mineral treasures / William T. Parry -- Generating wealth from the earth, 1847-2000 / Thomas G. Alexander -- General Patrick Edward Conner, father of Utah mining / Brigham D. Madsen -- The stories they tell / Carma Wadley -- II. Some mineral industries. Saline minerals / J. Wallace Gwynn -- Coal industry / Allan Kent Powell -- Uranium boom / Raye C. Ringholz -- Beryllium mining / Debra Wagner -- III. Major mining regions. Iron County / Janet Burton Seegmiller -- Bingham Canyon / Bruce D. Whitehead and Robert E. Rampton -- Silver Reef and southwestern Utah's shifting frontier / W. Paul Reeve -- Alta, the Cottonwoods, and American Fork / Laurence P. James and James E. Fell, Jr. -- Park City / Hal Compton and David Hampshire -- Tintic Mining District / Philip F. Notarianni -- San Francisco Mining District / Martha Sonntag Bradley-Evans -- Uinta Basin / John Barton.

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