Top Ten Mining Histories-UTAH
Electric Mule Cart circa 1940
MP055 Selected Mining Districts in UT
If you’ve never read anything yet on Utah mining, this is the one to pick up and start.
While it will only whet your appetite for more books to eyeball, it is the place to start.
0. PP111 The Ore Deposits of Utah
This is the bible of Utah mining history. Covers the entire state, but was last updated in 1920, so does not cover several of the wonderful mineral discoveries and rediscoveries of the late 20th century.
Regional studies with more detail than PP111 for selected areas:
1. UGS Mining Districts of Utah UGA-32 Mining Districts of Utah, edited by Roger L. Bon, Robert W. Gloyn, Gerald M. Park, 2006, $29.95
While not as comprehensive in coverage as PP111, it is more detailed and up to date that PP111. Published by the UGA [the source for detailed and accurate information on utah mineral resources] one would hope that as state agencies go, that the UGS and UGA would cancel out some of the work the UDOGM AMRP is doing to destroy access to mineral information in this State.
2. PP107 Geology and Ore Deposits of the Tintic District
covers North Tintic area currently a target for UT DOGM AMRP reclamation; Eureka and Mammoth, previous targets of UT DOGM AMRP erasures; and Silver City, also a target for UT DOGM AMRP reclamation
Read this to familarize yourself with the history and geology of an area that the State of Utah will soon seal and bury [backfill] forever
3. PP80 Geology and Ore Deposits of the San Francisco and adjacent mining districts of Utah by B.S. Butler, 1913
The ghost town of Frisco, Utah, is being threatened by State action. The UT DOGM AMRP feels that it has come time and it’s Frisco’s turn to be backfilled and buried. While they use the politically correct term “reclaim,” it is still murder by any measure and attempted obsfucation. They are hijacking history in the name of public safety.
A must read for the background on this colorfully and monumentally historic area under seige.
4. PP173 Geology and Ore Deposits of the Stockton-Fairfield Quadrangle, Utah
This volume covers the Rush Valley area, site of Utah’s earliest mining boom, which UT DOGM AMRP has obstensively named Kessler in order to confound and confuse us into thinking they are reclaiming something other than the very first and earliest record of Utah mining. Also covers the Ophir and Jacob City areas, which UT DOGM AMRP has already killed and bulldozed under, although signs of life are recropping and poking up in these areas.
Also covers the Mercur area, doubly sad because UT DOGM AMRP had an accomplice in Barrick Resources to help them kill history and erase any evidence thereof in the area. A whole ghost town will be reseeded so visitors will have no idea of what historically went on there.
5. PP177 The Gold Hill Mining District of Utah
Dutch Mountain is the next phase of UT DOGM AMRP’s plan to erase the rich mining history of Utah’s west desert. They have already backfilled many of the mines in the Gold Hill area, but Dutch Mountain is scheduled for elimination next. It is almost as if they are doing these reclamations piecemeal, a part at a time, in order to gauge and check whether opposition materializes before proceeding with more. Maybe too its a budget constraint, but with the USG spending money like drunked sailor, we may soon see millions of dollars at a time being spent murdering minerals and backfilling books of history.
6. PP 415 Spor Mountain
Utah’s modern mining boom centered around Uranium and Beryllium, both of which in addition to fluorite are found on Spor Mountain, which, you guessed it, is a UT DOGM AMRP target for elimination.
Under the guise of public safety, they wish to readicate evidence of mining in this area to improve the visitor experience to the West Desert. That the state has put people in charge of mining to remove all evidence of mining is appalling. The fox is wearing a white hat and claiming that they are really on the side of the hens.
See also this site for more info and photos of this area
Being swallowed by Rio Tinto’s efforts to mine Cu in Utah
8. PP77 Geology and Ore Deposits of the Park City District, Utah
Skiing has supplanted mining as this area’s economic livelihood, and arson takes its toll of historic mining structures here.
9. PP201 Geology and ore deposits of the Cottonwood-American Fork area, Utah, with sections on history and production. TU, USFS and ski resorts have reclaimed much of this area already.
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