Economic Geology

By: B. T. TrippThis report complements the Utah Stone brochure by providing stone producers, land use planners, and potential stone buyers with detailed information on the quartzite building stone industry of the Raft River - Grouse Creek Mountains area of Box Elder County. It...

Contains reprints of 14 out of-print items concerning uranium/vanadium. The CD contains the following publications:B-46 Uranium-vanadium deposits of the Thompsons area, Grand County, Utah, with emphasis on the origin or carnotite ores, by W. L. Stokes, 1952, 51 p., 2 pl.B-82 Uranium in Utah...

By: J. R. Wilson, editorThis guidebook contains articles and road logs for field trips planned in conjunction with the 1992 meeting of the Rocky Mountain Section of the Geological Society of America held at Ogden, Utah. The field trip articles and road logs are...

By: Diane Menuz and Rebekah Downard The Utah Mineral Occurrence System (UMOS) is a database that includes known mineral mines, quarries, prospects, and deposits in Utah. The database focuses on metallic and industrial minerals, but also includes information on energy minerals (particularly uranium). The...

By: J. Marty, D. G. Howard, and H. BarwoodPhosphate minerals in northwestern Utah have been known since 1905. In 1909, Frank Edison and Edward Bird located claims on Utahlite Hill and produced variscite until 1910. Now the location is known as the Utahlite claim....

Edited By: H. H. Doelling Contains a complete reproduction of the text of Central Utah coal fields: Sevier-Sanpete, Wasatch Plateau, Book Cliffs, and Emery by H. H. Doelling, first published in 1972. The text is subdivided into coal fields, area and quadrangle; geographical data,...

By: Stephanie E. Mills, Andrew Rupke, Michael D. Vanden Berg, and Taylor BodenThis report summarizes 2018 energy and mineral resource production statistics and values for Utah. Discussions cover energy resources including oil, natural gas, coal, and uranium, and nonfuel mineral resources including base and...

By: H. H. Doelling, F. D. Davis, and C. J. Brandt Kane County, with its 4105 square miles, lies along the south-central margin of Utah and is found in the western part of the Colorado Plateaus physiographic province. It is famous for scenic beauty...

By: Zachary W. Anderson, Greg N. McDonald, Elizabeth A. Balgord, and W. Adolph Yonkee The Browns Hole quadrangle is in Weber and Cache Counties of northern Utah and covers the eastern part of Ogden Valley, a rapidly developing area of the Wasatch Range. The...

By: Andrew Rupke This report documents a brief evaluation of the potential lithium resource in Great Salt Lake and leans heavily on historical data from the Utah Geological Survey’s GSL brine chemistry database from the 1960s through the 1990s; limited recent data are also...

Summary This study quantifies the economic contribution of Utah’s energy and mining industries to Utah’s gross domestic product (GDP), employment, worker earnings, state tax revenue, and total economic output. This report also explores contributions at a sectoral level and analyzes the economic contributions of...

By: H. E. Gill and W. R. LundPark City began as a mining community in the late 1860s and mining continued actively in the area for more than 100 years. In the 1970s skiing surpassed mining as the major industry in the area. Due...

By: J. A. WhelanThe Rocky Range is a small, isolated mountain range northwest of Milford in Beaver County, Utah. The range was organized into a mining district in 1872 and has been a small but significant producer of copper and tungsten ores during periods...

By: S. Heuscher The Henry Mountains coalfield is in central Wayne and Garfield Counties in a remote area of Utah with few paved roads. The coalfield lies in a structural basin called the Henry Mountains syncline. The syncline is bounded on the west by...

By: D. E. Tabet, B. P. Hucka, J. C. Quick, and S. I. Wakefield This report describes the coal stratigraphy, quality, and resource found in the Blackhawk Formation within four quadrangles in Sevier County, Utah. These quadrangles cover most of the Salina Canyon coalfield...

By: W. R. Lund, T. R. Knudsen, G. S. Vice, and L. M. ShawThe St. George-Hurricane metropolitan area is one of the nation?s fastest growing regions. As land well suited for development becomes increasingly scarce, urbanization has moved into less favorable areas where geologic...

By: B. T. TrippUtah contains large resources of high-calcium limestone (> 95% CaCO3) that provide raw material for diverse mining and mineral-processing operations. The most important deposits are in Cambrian, Devonian, and Mississippian-age shallow marine rocks, primarily in the western half of the state....

By: M. A. ShubatThe continuing development of high-efficiency lasers that use gadolinium-scandium-gallium garnet crystals is creating an increased demand for scandium.In Utah, scandium concentrates occur in a variety of geologic environments including a class of hydrothermal, scandium-bearing aluminum phosphate deposits containing variscite, crandallite, and...

By: D. E. BoleneusThis report contains comprehensive information about the building stone industry in Utah and the nearby states of Idaho, Wyoming, Montana, and Washington, and is presented in three parts: 1.) an inventory of stone operations and stone yards used for operational or...

By: R. L. Bon and S. I. Wakefield, compilersThe information in this table is from the Utah Division of Oil, Gas and Mining. Large Mines are those having more than five acres of disturbance at a time. Coal mines are included as they are...