Economic Geology

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...

Contains digital images of geophysical logs as well as core descriptions, coal analysis reports, point location data forms, and some miscellaneous correspondence for drill holes from the North Horn Mountain area of the Wasatch Plateau coal field that have been recently released by the...

By: T. F. Lawton and M. P. Weiss The Wales quadrangle lies in a region of structural transition between the extended lithosphere of the Basin and Range and the moderately deformed Colorado Plateau. In Late Cretaceous time, this region was the leading edge of...

By: M. R. SmithUtah has valuable and abundant natural energy resources which include oil and natural gas, coal, uranium, gilsonite, geothermal hot water and steam, oil shale, tar sand, and methane. The locations of important energy resources are shown on the brochure map. At...

Edited By: H. H. Doelling and R. L. Graham This publication covers information regarding the Southwestern Utah coal fields, and is the first in a three part series of publications. The text is subdivided into coal fields, area and quadrangle; geographical data, geology, mines...

By: R. W. Gloyn, R. L. Bon, S. I. Wakefield, and K. KrahulecThe Uranium and Vanadium Map of Utah depicts the areas throughout the state where uranium and vanadium are located. Information on this map includes: permitted uranium/vanadium mine, past producers, prospect/occurrence, uranium as...

By: R. L. Bon and K. A. KrahulecThis publications discusses the gross value of energy and mineral commodities Utah mines and energy companies produced during 2009. It also discusses the types of energy and mineral commodities produced in the state, and how that production...

By: D. E. Tabet, J. C. Quick, B. P Hucka, and J. A. Hanson This report provides estimates of the available coal resources in nine 7.5-minute quadrangles that encompass the northern half of the Wasatch Plateau coalfield. Coal production from this area has doubled...

By: D .A. Foster and A. D. Smith The Bibliography of Utah Coal has been compiled in recognition of a need for many individuals to know where to find basic geologic and coal information. The compilation process utilized citations from computerized printouts from GEOREF,...

Born September  6, 1845, at the western edge of settlements in the United States, Jesse Knight joined his family and thousands of pioneers in a massive migration to settle lands in an expanding America. As a youth, Jesse experienced all the trials, hardships and...

by Stephanie E. Mills Utah Copper: Powering Our Past, Present, and Future Copper is far more than just a metal; it's a fundamental element woven into the fabric of our everyday lives. Copper, celebrated for its exceptional electrical and thermal conductivity, literally builds our...