From the ground up
Subtitle: the history of mining in Utah
By: edited by Colleen Whitley ; foreword by Philip F. Notarianni.
Contributors: Whitley, Colleen, 1940-
Publisher: Utah State University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Logan, UT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 506
ISBN-13: 9780874216394; 9780874216394
Subjects: Mines and mineral resources -- Utah -- History.; Mining engineering -- Utah -- History.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 456-482) and index.
Table of contents: title: I. The ground of Utah mining. Geology and Utah's mineral treasures / William T. Parry; title: Generating wealth from the earth, 1847-2000 / Thomas G. Alexander; title: General Patrick Edward Conner, father of Utah mining / Brigham D. Madsen; title: The stories they tell / Carma Wadley; title: II. Some mineral industries. Saline minerals / J. Wallace Gwynn; title: Coal industry / Allan Kent Powell; title: Uranium boom / Raye C. Ringholz; title: Beryllium mining / Debra Wagner; title: III. Major mining regions. Iron County / Janet Burton Seegmiller; title: Bingham Canyon / Bruce D. Whitehead and Robert E. Rampton; title: Silver Reef and southwestern Utah's shifting frontier / W. Paul Reeve; title: Alta, the Cottonwoods, and American Fork / Laurence P. James and James E. Fell, Jr.; title: Park City / Hal Compton and David Hampshire; title: Tintic Mining District / Philip F. Notarianni; title: San Francisco Mining District / Martha Sonntag Bradley-Evans; title: Uinta Basin / John Barton.