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PublisherUniversity Press of Colorado

ISBN-100874216397

ISBN-139780874216394

eBay Product ID (ePID)63696114

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Book TitleFrom the Ground Up : a History of Mining in Utah

Number of Pages508 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2006

TopicMining, United States / State & Local / West (Ak, CA, Co, Hi, Id, Mt, Nv, Ut, WY), Earth Sciences / Geology, General

IllustratorYes

GenreTechnology & Engineering, Science, History

AuthorColleen Whitley

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1.6 in

Item Weight36.1 Oz

Item Length9.2 in

Item Width6.1 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2006-020257

Dewey Edition22

Dewey Decimal338.209792

Table Of ContentContents Part I The Ground of Utah Mining 1 Geology and Utah's Mineral Treasures 000William T. Parry 2 Generating Wealth from the Earth, 1847-2000 000Thomas G. Alexander 3 General Patrick Edward Connor, Father of Utah Mining 000Brigham D. Madsen 4 The Stories They Tell 000Carma Wadley Part II Some Mineral Industries 5 Saline Minerals 000J. Wallace Gwynn 6 Coal Industry 000Allan Kent Powell 7 Uranium Boom 000Raye C. Ringholz 8 Beyllium Mining 000Debra Wagner Part III Major Mining Regions 9 Iron County 000Janet Burton Seegmiller 10 Bingham Canyon 000Bruce D. Whitehead and Robert E. Rampton 11 Silver Reef and Southwestern Utah's Shifting Frontier 000W. Paul Reeve 12 Alta, the Cottonwoods, and American Fork 000Lawrence P. James and James E. Fell, Jr. 13 Park City 000Hal Compton and David Hampshire 14 Tintic Mining District 000Philip F. Notarianni 15 San Francisco Mining District 000Martha S. Bradley 16 Uinta Basin 000John Barton Glossary of Geologic and Mining Terms 000 Notes 000 Resources and Bibliography 000 Index 000

SynopsisDespite mining's multidimensional role in the history of Utah since Euro-american settlement, there has never been a book that surveyed and contextualized its impact. From the Ground Up fill that gap with a collection of essays by leading Utah historians and geologists. Essays here address the geology of the state, the economic history of mining in Utah, and the lore of mines and miners. Additionally, the book reviews a handul of particularly significant mineral industries---saline, coal, uranium, and beryllium---and surveys important hard-rock mining regions of the state., Despite mining's multidimensional role in the history of Utah since Euro-american settlement, there has never been a book that surveyed and contextualized its impact. "From the Ground Up" fill that gap with a collection of essays by leading Utah historians and geologists. Essays here address the geology of the state, the economic history of mining in Utah, and the lore of mines and miners. Additionally, the book reviews a handul of particularly significant mineral industries---saline, coal, uranium, and beryllium---and surveys important hard-rock mining regions of the state., Mining had an enormous role, only partly measurable, in the history of Utah. Its multidimensional impact continues today. Economically, it made a major long-term contribution to the wealth, employment, and tax base of the state and stimulated a seemingly endless range of secondary businesses and enterprises. It helped shape the state's social history, determining the location, distribution, and composition of many communities and bringing transportation systems and a wide variety of institutions to them. It developed cultural diversity by drawing to Utah miners and families from otherwise underrepresented ethnic and national backgrounds. It ignited strife, particularly between labor and management, but those issues often spread into or connected with other conflicts in and between communities, classes, and factions. It influenced political platforms, generated candidates, and helped decide elections. Throughout the state, mining dramatically transformed the landscape, most obviously at what has been called the world's largest open-pit mine, which removed much of a mountain on the west side of Salt Lake Valley, but at innumerable other places too. Despite all mining has done and meant, there has not been, until now, a book that surveyed its history in Utah. From the Ground Up fills that gap in a collection of essays by leading experts, among them historians Thomas G. Alexander, Martha Sonntag Bradley-Evans, James E. Fell Jr., Laurence P. James, Brigham D. Madsen, Philip F. Notarianni, Allen Kent Powell, W. Paul Reeve, Raye C. Ringholz, and Janet Burton Seegmiller and geologists J. Wallace Gwynn and William T. Parry. The book is divided into three comprehensive parts. The first looks at "The Ground of Utah Mining": the geology that has produced extractable minerals, the economic history of the industry, "father of Utah mining" Patrick E. Connor, and the lore of mines and miners. Part II reviews the history of a handful of particularly significant mineral industries: salines, coal, uranium, and beryllium. The last part takes a region-by-region approach to survey the important, primarily for hard-rock mining, areas of the state, including places from Silver Reef to Alta, the East Tintic Range to the Uinta Basin, and Park City to Frisco.

LC Classification NumberTN24