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minenl output in 1960 was $481
over 19119. Most of this &dvance
in the value of copper pro-
accounted for 67 percent; :fUels,

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of $U'.iD.S decrea.lle
million, in
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I..l coal, natun! gu, tatunl gas liquids, and
gil80nite produced.
T otal value of prod ucts flOm the nonmetal segment of the indol']
"as $28 million, .. $1 million inCI Ue over the 19:i9 total 11U8
advance resulted from iDere ns d value of output for Jime, pbospbaw
rock. potassium sal~ Md salt that mof'll than offset deerl?S!g in
cement, sand and gravel, and stone.
Numerous construction, exploration, and development programs
liJ'ecting the mineral industry of Utah were begun or completed dur-
ing the year. In the metals field, Utah Copper Division, Kennecott
COpper Corp., oompJeted a major addition to the powerpll.nt I.nd
started I. modification of the Garfie1d smeJter. Kenneeott I.lso began
a 8piral.haula~ D:c&vation in its open· pit. mine. Utab Construc-
tion & Mining Co. btgan oonstruction of a new beneficiation plant to
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treat iron ore from its mine in Iron County. Dool" Creek Mining
Co. and its parent company, Kennecott Copper 0<lrr." continued an
enerunv6 ez:pioration and development p~ro.m for ead Ilnd :tine (In
Jea9& holdings in the East Tintic min~ district. Other companies,
inclu~g The Anaconda Com~ny, Cerro Corp., United Park City
Mines Co., New Puk lfining Co., and Keystone Mining Co'1 001l'
dueted exploration and development for lead Ilnd zineon Utah rolDara!
deposits. Several companies were e.s:plo~ newly discovered
beryllium mineralization in the Topaz-Spor Mountain area and con-
ducting metallurgical tests on samples collected. Minerals Engineer-
ing Co. purchased the Howe Sound Co. cobalt refinery near SaI1 Lake
City and planned to convert the plant to produce vanadium pentoJ:ide
from out-of-St ate matoriaL
In the cool industry, Columbia-Geneva Steel Division, United States
Steel Corp., installed a. new-t ype coal dryer at its coal-cleaning plant
lit Wellington. A major contribution to the ~troleum industry of
Utah was the development of the Northwest Lisbon field the first to
yield J?tltroleum from the DevonilUl formation in the P araaoJ: basin.
A SIgnificant nonmetal development was the completion of addi-
tional eement.stor&j:l6 facilities at the I deal Cement Co. Devil'e Slide
oement plant. Portland Cement Co. of Utah continued construction
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to double the capacity of its Salt r .ke City plant. The Utah Lime
and StOIlO Co. ~ ope rating .. new hydrated..!ime plant at Dolomite..
San Fra.ncisoo Chemical Co. began constructing a phosphate plant
near Vernal. Texas Gulf S ulphur Co. and Delhi-Taylor Oil Corp_
signed an agrooment for development; of .. potash deposit in the Cane
Creek area. near Moab.
Empio1ll1ent and hJuriea.-P rrliminary empJor.ment and injuries
data (excluding the petroleum industry) compiled by t he Federal
Bureau of Mines ore shown in table 2. The IWnferrous minin,& mill·
ing, l!IIle1ting, and refining industry (ucluding uranium mimng and
procening) accounted for two-thirds of the man-houI'S worked and
6 of the 14 fatal injuries in Utah's mineral industry. Cumulatively
the coal, asphalt and related bitumens, an d coke industry was second
to the nonferrous industry in employment and fatAl mjuries; the
uranium industry was thi rd.
LecWation and Gonmment PYograma.- Four Offi08 of Minen.l Ex-
ploratioJl (OME) oontraeta executed in 1960 for exploration at four
minll6 in Utah are shown in table 3. D uring the year , New Park
Mining Co. continuerl 'Ofork 00 a n uplonltlon contract executed
in 19~ under the Defense Minerals E~~ra tioo Administration
(D?£EA), now administere.d by the 0 for le.ad-zinc-copper
exploration at the Mayflower-Galena mine in ' Vasatch County.
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REVIEW 8Y MINPAL COMMODITIES
METALS
:BerylliUlll.-Beryllium exploration in the United States in 1960
was highlighted b,Y)ntensive prospecting in the TOp&Z-Spor Mountain
area 01 western Utah (near Delta). ~eportJ:I of the discovery of
major beryllium depositB in this region inten:sted II> number of rom-
panies. Vitro Minerals Corp. and Beryllium Resources, Inc., the
major claim holders, were actively engaged in exploration and metal-
lurgical testing to determine the economies of ore-processing tech-
niques. The ore mineral, tentativel: identified as bertnmdite, is
djs""'minated in a volcanic t uft' underlymg a bed of rhyolite.
In August. Vitro Minerals Corp. l:IXecuted a contract with OME
for beryllium eJ:pJoration in the Topll2O Mountain area. Under the
contract, OME would participate to the extent of Ml percent of ap-
proved costs up to $75,000, Other companies prospecting or exp!orlng
111 the area included E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., Inc., United
States Steel Corp., Combined Metals Reduction Co., Food Machinery
& Chemical Corr'). Interoations1 Minerals & Chemical Corp. (IYC),
and Minerva Oi \.A).-The New Jersey Zinc Co.
Cobalt.-Minerals Enginooring Co. and Susquehanna-Western, Inc.,
purchased the Howe SOund Co. coba.lt refinery 20 miles west of Ss1t
Lake City. The plant was to be converted to produce vsnadium pen-
toJ.:ide for uses in nuclear energy, alloy stools, and vehicle smog-control
devices. To assure a Muree of raw materlal, the companies siped
a 5:year contract with Mineral Products Division of Food Machmery
& Chemical Corp. in May for vanadium·bearing slag resulting from
treatment of phos'phatic ores in Idaho and Montana.. Previous plans
of Minerals Engineering for new refining facilities adjacent to its
S alt Lake City tungsten plant were set aside.
Coppel",-Utah continued to rank second only to Arizona in copper
output. The value of copper production accounted for 33 pe~nt of
the total value of minemls produced in the State. Copper production
inerell!led 51 percent in quantity and 1i8 percent in value compared
with H)59. Production of oopper advanced from 990 tons in January
to 16,400 tons in February, 20,100 tons in March, and 21,200 tons in
April. Copper production avera~ 19,900 toilS per mont h for the
remaining 8 months with monthly figu~ either above or below the
April output.
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FIoou I.- Value o.t &Old, ,Ufer, copper, lead, .ud Iloe, and total nIne or all
m1uetl.lII In Ut&1l, 19$-00.

I'lGtrU 2._U1ne productlon of copper tn Utah, l~l-6O, b7 mont.be, In term.

of I'eeOlerable metalJI,
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T.llIU ' .-l[lae prodlletloll. or &,014, tllytr, copper, In d, and IIl1e In term. ot
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includiol{ ores.
""jJ'estlC . fol" opening of
the tl.W&ll1l. copper near . action was made
possible through an agreement between the company and Bogdanich
Development Co., lessees of the property from Cerro Verde Mining
Co. Plnns were made to develop the property as an open-pit mine and
to renovate 1\ 850-ton-per-day mill near Milford to treat the are.
Oold.-Gold output increased M percent ($4!i million), over that of
1959. This advance directly reflected til", increased copper prodll~
tion inasmuch as 96 percent of the gold was recovered as a byproduct
of copper.
Kennecott's Utah Copper Bingham open-pit copper mine accounted
for most of the State's g?ld outpulJ followed by the U.S. and Lnrk,
Mayflower-Galena, and United Par" City mines, in desoonding order
of output.
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Co.,
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Co. from
and steel plant at
its Excelsior (Iron
Columbia-Geneva
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Lead.-Lead production was The

tUUlual weighted average price
P&red with 11.5 cents in 1959.
ore produced at the U.S. and
County, operated by the Unit::'~d ••t;;
Co. The lead-zino ore was ~J
Midvale.
Other major producers of lead from lead-zinc ores included the Uni-
ted Park CIty and Mayflower-Galena mines. These mines plus the
U.S. and Lark accounted for 91) percent of the State's total lead
production.
I n 1960, QME C(Intrncts for a total of $325,190 were executOO for
lead-zinc exploration programs at three Utah mines. The contractors
and the Federal Government were to participaUl equaJ1y in tlle total
amount of the contracts. D ata concerning the contracts are shown in
table 3.
Significant exploration and development programs were reported
at lead-zinc mines. Bear Creek Minin~ Co. had been exploring lease
holdings of approximately 11,000 acres III the East Tintic mining dis-
trict, Tooele County, since September 1956. The I?roperty was owned
by Tintic Standard Mining Co. and its subsidiarIes and Chief Con-
solid ated Mining Co. Bear Creek completed 9,700 feet of surface
rotary and diamond drilling. In May, Bear Creek assigned its lease
to the parent company, Kennecott. Bear Creek continued in charge
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May, Kennecott operated the
workings and completed 1 600 feet
8,500 feet of diamond drilling. A
winze from the 1,05().foot level (1,000 Ceet
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reserve was increased
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. of molybdenum "1'1\8 recovered
the Utah. Copper mine of Utah
was recovered u: .. molybdenite coneen-
COpperooDcentrate produced at the company
illCf--sed 28 percent (1 million troy
because of major advance in output from the
silver, and copper produce r, Utah Copper. The
United Park City mines also were Importllnt
. " to total. The three mines a!XOlUlted for 90 percent
prod uction. Fifty-five pereent wa.s recovered from cop -
per are., percent from lead-zinc ore, and the remainder from
other cl-pes of ore and materials.
Tuptea.-Mine.l'I.is Engineuing Co. produced hie-h-purity IllIlDlO-
nium paratungstate .t its refinery in Salt Lake City from tOllcen-
trate recovered from ore mined from the oompany~ Calvert Cleek
property near Dillon, Mont.
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elude
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Vanadium.-Uranium om oonllininl; aignificant qnantities of TIna·
dium oxide were processed Ilt mills In 80IIthwestern Colorado li nd
northwestern New Muico where the vllnl!.dium was recovered. The
vanadium recovered from such ores produced in Emery, Garfield,
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Orand, San J uan and Wayne Counties "'as credited to Utah. The
quantity recove~ in 1000 was 14 pereent le88 than that of HI5!).
Zinc.-Zinc output slightly eJceeded that of ID59, and the value
increased 13 percent ($l.1 million) becaU98 of the advance in the
annual weighted averng6 price from lUi centa per pound in 1959 to
12.9 cents In 1960. The leading zinc r.roduOOMl-U.S. and Lark,
United Park City, and Mayflower-Gft en a tog&her supplied 88
peroent of the :l:inc output..
M1NErAL FUELS

AlphaIt Illd Rel&ted lIitumens.-Giisonite (nintahite) production

from six mines in Uinto.h and Duchesne Counties increiaed 1 percent
in quantity and 7 percent in value over thnt of 1959. American Gi l·
somis Co., operating the Bonanza mines in Uintah County, continued
to develop and improve hydraulic mining methods.
Carbon Dioride.---CArbon dio:t:ide production came from the Navajo
and Coconino formatiol18 in the Farnham Dome field in Carbon
County. The gas, transported to Wellington by pipeline. 1'I'U con-
verted to dry ice and liquid carbon dioxide.
Coal.- Bituminous eoe.l production, from 4~ underground mines in
1 oounties, increased 9 percent above that of 1969. Nearly half (40
pert:ent) of the output was ustd in manufacturing coke for use in
steel plants in Utah and California. Two oounties, Carbon and
Emery, accounted for 98 pen:ent of the coal rroduced. Carbon
County led with 15 percent. Independent Coa & Coke Co. com-
pItted its I-mile tunnel connecting the Kenihrorth and Cnstle Gate
mines. Columbio-Geneva Steel completed a 0041-drying plant, the
first of its kind west of the Mississippi River, It ita cleaning plant
at Wellington.
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sU: eountie:9 and residual g1l.S from nntuml gu pllnts in three eountiee
1'1'&11 40 percent above rJat of lO~9. A fullyet.r'a operation of the EI
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Paso plant at Aneth, completed late in 19!11~, aeeounted for much of

the increase. Oil-well gas procemd at planll was 71 percent of the
usable gas produced. Nine new gas fields were discov(\"(!d, four each
in Grand and Uintah Counties, and one in Carbon. Fourteen ~Ucce9lJ·
III] developm~t wella (to in Uintah County and" in Grand) 11.180
were completed. An additional outlet. for natural jt1IlJ from the 'West-
wate r area in Orand County was provided when the 6-inch 9-million-
cabie-foot-per-day pipeline was completed by Orand Vnl'ey Tran&-
miss.ion Co. in November. The line connected with those of the Pacific
Northwest Pipeline system of El Puo Natural O u Co.
Natural au Llquida.-Natural gasoline, butane, and pf'()plUllil were
recovered from pl.nu in the Clay Basin field in Daggett County the
Red Wash field in Uintah County, and the Aneth field in San Juan
County. The quantity recovered WAS nefltl, twice that of 19ti9, and
the inCl'ell!:l6 WIlS entirely from the lOO-milhon-cubic-foot-per-day El
P.so Natural Gas Co_ plant in the Aneth field. Natural gasoline,
representing 20 pen:ent of the natural gil.!! liquids recovered, wu
lar~ly from pl&.lltll in the Clay Dum and Red W ash fields. The
liquids recovered at the Aneth 1?1e.nt were separated at the El Pa90
Natural Ola Co. Wingate fractionation plant at Wingate, N. MeJ:.
Standard Oil Co. of California bep.n eonstruction of a 40-million·
cubic-foot-per-day gasoline plantat Red Wash field in Uint ah County.
Petroleum.- Petroleum production, fhXll 796 welts in II counties,
fell 6 peffimt below tho 10ti9 figure. Gains were recorded in Grnnd
and Umtah CountieEl; a substantial d~line wu noted in San Juan
County. Much of the drop was in the Greater Aneth area, partic-
ularly the Aneth, Wh ite MeM, and Ralherlord fields. Other fields in
the a~ Cahone Mesa, I smay, and McElmo Creek, accounted for
substantial gains. The deEli~tion of the Northwest Lisbon field ae
the "disoovery of the year" In 19ti9 W&II fully justified. The produc-
ing area 'IT" mended to the southeut and to the north. The field
discovered lale in 1959, was the finlt in the ParadoJ: h"in to yield
petroleum from Devonian fonnations.
Drilling declined, with completion of 96 eIptoratory and 141 devel-
opment wells compared with 101 exploratory and 211 development
wells in 1959. The decline in development drillin~ w" largely the
resWt of the official estlblishment of 8()-aere Bplang in the Aneth
area. Drilling in the fields had been on 8()-acre q>acing and few addi-
tional wells were "",ui~. Other development d rilling Wl8 in Uintah
COQnty, particularly in the Red Wash-Walker Hollow area. E:z-
ploratory drilling in San Juan, Uin tah, Grmnd, and Duchesne Coun·
tiel! represented 83 percent of all e:zploratory drilling in the State.
Sb: dlsooveries were made, five in San Juan County and one in
Duchesne County. The IU(X:f"'E ratio for exploratory drilling was 16
percent, that, for development drilling Wag 81S porcent, and that for
all drilling W&8 tiS percent.
Four refineril!lS in the Salt Lake City area. operated the entire year.
Throughput WIl9 31.2 million barrels of Ilnlde oil, an increase of 3
percent over that of 19119.
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NONMETALS
Barite.--Qne firm continued to be the only local outlet for barita
Ore mined by Heinecke Bros. (Beaver County) D. J. Garrick (Juab
County), and Lyle Tiller (Tooele County) was ~ipped to a Salt lake
City gnnding plant operated bt Custom !lilling Co. All the ground
bante was soJd to the oil-well dnlling industry.
Cement- Production and shipme.nta of portJand and m'90nry 0&-
menta decreued 6 and 8 peroent, respectively, compared with HUSD.
The decline was attributed, at least in part to a reduced volume of
building and highway construction. Ideal o;.;;ent Co., with a 2-kiln
plant at Devil's Slide, Morgan County, was the major producer. At
Ita plant., the company completed a. $2 million project which oonsisted
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primarily of nine new 86- by loW-loot-high silos Uld four binB h.aving
a total storage ca paci~ of 200 400 barrels."
Portland Cement Co. of Utah operated ita Salt Lake City cement
plant throughout 1900 and continued its $2.ri million construction
program designed to double plant capacity. This project was to be
oompleted early in 1961.
Claya.-Because of a general decline in the demand for building
brick and other heavy clay products, output of fire and mieoellaneous
Clly or shale dropped 23 percent in 1960. Abo, production of
beritonite d ecreaSE d s"lightly but the output o f halloysite (kaolin-type
clay) increased; mine shipments of fuller's earth remained about
tM same. The Filtrol Corp. Dragon halloysite mille in Juab County
was the major producer of clay in 1960. Brick and other clay-prod-
ucts pls!lts wer!, o~rated by Int~rst:llte B,:ick Co., Ut!lh F ire Clay
Co., Uruted Brick Co., and HarnSVllle Brick Co., whIch P I«)f "Oed
nearly all the fire clay and miscellaneous clay. Western Clay &
Metals Co., Sevier County; American Mud & Chemical Corp., Gar-
field County; and Maceo Corp., M organ Coun ty, mined an thO fuller's
earth and bentonite.
Fluonpar.-The resumption
Q."" \Chesley & Black)
Inc.), pIUS the continued operation of
Bros., boosted fluorspar snles in 1960 to
Mine production was 2,366 tons, from ~f,~".~
concentrate was produced. Shipments
manufacturers.
Gem Stonea.- The value of gem and ornamental stones collected was
estimated at $72.,000-a 46-pereent drop from 1959. Data obtained
" OIn individuals., lIOCieties, and dealers IIldicated a substantial decline
in the value of petrified wood collected in Garfield County and lZOOdes
gathered in J uab County. The following arelUl within selected""coun-
ties were the centers of activity in WOO: Box E lder .lLucin) ; Garfield
(ESClllante and Circle C liff) ; Juo.b (Levan and ericho); Millard
(Black Rock, DeIhL). and Milford) ; l"ooele (Cedar MonntKin, Dug-
way, and Antelope l!iprings); and Wayne (Hanksville and Thousand
Lake Mountai n Range ).
GypIUlll.- The output of crude gypsum mined by Bestwall Gyprnrn
Co. and United States GyJ?SUffi Co. d eere:' sed 10 percent in quantity
f rom 1959. Both oompllllles continued to operate wallboard plants
near Sigurd.
Lime.- A 37,OOO-ton gain in the output of quicklime and hydrated
lime increased tolni production of a.1I types of lime to 127,000 tons.,
41 percent greater than the 1959 total. The copper and iron indus-
tries consumed the bulk of the oU~ht. Lime-buming C&pacit~ in
uistenoo in 1960 was 236,MO tons. irteen shaft and 4 rotary kilns,
and 1 batch and 4 oontinuous hydrators were ~..J)e1'8ted by Kennecott
Copper Corp., The Utah Lime and Stone Co., Utah Ma rblehead Lime
Co., and Lakeside Lim& & Stone Co. Althopgh Utah provided the
principal market f or lime, shipments were roade to Alaska, California,
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way were ~tiations for oonstruction of an IS-mile road from Moa,p
tothe -plant Bite and 36 miles of connecting' rail li06.
Pumiee.-Oreater production of PWllIOO (scorial by Christensen
Construction Co. and Central Utah Block Co. in Mi lard County, and
the addition of Melvin Bradshaw in Beaver County and Ralph Mem-
mott in !Iillard County to the list of producers boosted output to
6O,{IOO tons, a M percent e;ain over 1959. All the scoria mined was
used in ma.nuf!l.Cturing bwlding block and oLher structural products.
Pyrite8.- With the settlement of a labor strike at the Garfield oop~r
smelter early in 1960, adequate quantities of byproduct m lfur diol:lde
became available to the Garfield Chemical and Manufacturing
f:i
to
. sulfuric acid plant. AB a oonsequen~ the pyrites shipments
rlieJd by United States Smelti.nR: Refining and Mining Co. were
51 ~t OOIow 19<')9 shipments. U-nited Statal Smeltins: recovered
pyntes as a byproduct at the comp any's Midvale lead·zmc concen-
trator.
Salt.- Increased harvests from the four major so.lt operations re-
sulted in an ll-pen:ent gain in sales of sa.1t. Morton Salt Co. W8..!l
th, leadw.&- producerl....followed by Utah Salt Co., Leslie Salt Co.,
and Solar Salt Co. The latter three firms maintained facilities in
Tooele County IJId Morton ~ra.t.ed in Salt Lake County. Rol'ai
Crystal Salt 0;,. (Sanpete County) and Poulson Bros. Salt Co.
(Sevier County) , with mines near Redmond, were the only rock-salt
operators. Lake Crystal Salt Co. reported a. reduction in output from
its Box Elder County solar-evaporation facility. Utah Salt Co. and
Van W aters and Rogel"2, lne., fonned Wendover Specialties. Inc.,
to produce and distribute salt products. A plant to make salt blocks
for &nimal feed was built and placed in operation.
Sand and Oravel.-Cutbacka in highway construction in Iron., Juab,
Weber, Sevier, Salt Lake, and other counties were largely responsible
for the 28.percent decline in sand and used
in 1960. There were 62 .
tor operu.tions actively gravel, an
of 3 operations over oontinued to
largest. producer with of
by 13 commercial and
showed that from July
40.1 miles of road to
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State ranked

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struction work on the Southern Pacific Co. Great SaIt Lake railroad
causeway resulted in the closing of Box Elder County quarries which
were the source of $2 million worth of crushed limestone Ilnd sand-
stone produced in 19:'.i9. Mon road construction in Cache County,
nnd increased use of limestone as a flux and for lime manufacture
in Tooele Ilnd Utah Counties were resJ.>Onsible for increased stone
production in these counties. Resumption of full-scale production
at the major copper operations stimulated the"demand for additional
quantities of limestone.
SUlfuric Acid.-The Garfield sulfuric acid plant of Garfield Chemi-
cal and Manufacturing Corp. operated throughout the year, and out-
put increased considerably over the 1959 total. This plant, jointly
owned by Kennecott Copper Corp. Ilnd Asarco l ranked second in the
Nation m the production of byproduct sulfurIC acid. In 1960, the
plant was equipped with a new scrubber system designed to recover
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1038 MINERU.8 TllARBOOX, 1960

sulfur dioxide previously lost. Aooording to Kennecott's annual

report, the Dew equipment will inerea8e acid production by 60 tons
per day. Acid plants aim were operated by Tuag.·Zinc Mjnil!raJs
Corp. at Merica.n-nat a.nd by U.s. StOOl at Provo.

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THE MINERAL INDUSTRY OP UTAH 1039

'l'alc.-The Ogden mill of 'l'1'i·State Minerals Co. nearly doubled its
shipmentB of ground talc. Crude tale mined in California and Mon-
tana was shipPed to Ogden for gr:inding. The finished product was
consumed by ceramic, insectiClde, paInt, and toilet-prepa:rations
manufacturers.
Vtrmicullte.-Mines in Montana continued to supply crude vermicu-
lite to the Salt Lake City exfolia~ plant of Vermiculite-Inter-
mountain, Inc. Sales of the finish product remained about the
same as in 1959. Most of the material sold was used as insulation.

REVIEW BY COUNTIES
Beaver.-Uranium ore shipped from the Desert View, Mystery
Sniffer, and Mercury Sec. 14 mines to plants in Salt Lake City ana
Lakeview, Oreg., for processing represented 46 percent of the total
value of mineral}?roduction in the county. Output of gold, silver,
copper lead, and ZInC from three active mines and cleanup material at
one mill accounted for one-third of the total value., and nonmetals-
primarily pwniOOt perlite, and sand and gravel-oomprised the
remainder.
Box Elder.----Cessation of stone quarrying by Morrison-Knudsen Co.,
Inc., substantially lowered the total value of mineral production.
Completion of the railroad causeway across Great Salt Lake in 10ri9
elimmated the demand for fill material, and stone production dropped
to zero. Heinecke Bros. recovered a small quantit,y of barite from the
Silver Horn mine near Milford. The ore was shipped to Salt Lake
City for grinding.
CUbon.-BituminolUi coal from 2ri mines represented 93 percent of
the total value of mineral production in the county. Six companies
produced more than 100,000 tons each and accounted for 90 percent of
all coal p:roduced. They were Columbia-Geneva Steel at the Colum-
bia and Geneva mines; Kaiser Steel Corp. at the Sunnyside Nos. 1, 2,
and 3., and the "B" Canyon mines; Independent Coal & Coke Co. at
the Castle Gate Nos. 2 and 4 Clear Creek No. 3., ]{enilworth, lind
O'Connor No.1 mines; Carbon Fuel Co. at the Carbon Fuel mine; Lion
Coal Corp. at the Wattis mine; and Knight ]deal CollI Co. at the
Knight ]deal Nos. 2 and a mines. CompTetion of the I-mile tunnel
from the Kenilworth mine to the Castle Gate mine by ]ndependent
Coal & Coke Co. substantially reduced production costs. All surface
operations at the Kenilworth mine were closed.
Columbia-Geneva Steel completed a coal-drying plant as a comple-
ment to the coal-cleaning plant at Wellin~n completed in IOriO. The
coal fed to the dryer is maintained in a. tluidized condition by upward-
moving hot gases under pressure. The drying is accomplished as the
roal tloats in the stream of hot pressurized air over a refracto'7. brick
constriction plate. The dryer was the first of its kind to be built west
of the Mississippi River. _
Pacific States Steel Corp. of Niles, Cali~1. announced its intention
to exercise an option to llui-ch~ from the Heiner Coal Co., a reserve
of 85 million tons of cokmg coolm three separate seams on 5,720 acres
in Carbon County. The property consisted of 640 acres of leased
State land, 4,920 acres of leased :tederaJ land, and 160 acres of pri-
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vately owned surface land. The corporation needed coking coal for
its integrated stool plant being built at Niles, Calif. The privately
owned surface lands acquired will be available for mine improvement,
tipple, storage, trackage, and coke ovens if the corporation decides to
conduct such operations in Utah.
Minerals Development Co., a subsidiary of Heiner Coal Co ac-
quired control of 2,400 acres of leased coal lands, one-half from &;;k
Cliffs Coal Co. and one-half from Malcom McKinnon.
Natural gas from that portion of the Clear Creek fiel d lying in
Carbon County was marketed through pipelines. Carbon dioxide
from the Farnham Dome field was transported by pipeline to n process-
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THE MINERAL INDUSTRY OF UTAH 1041
ing J?lant at Wellington for conversion into dry ice and liq,uid earbon
dioxide. A new gasfield, Stone Cabin was discovered In August.
The discovery well flowed 1.5 million cubic feet of gas a day from the
Wasatch fonnation at depths of 3,949 to 3,967 and 4,260 to 4,274 feet.
Daggett-Natural gas from 10 wells in the Clay Basin field wag
processed at t he Uountain Fuel Sup!?ly Co. gasoline plantj the natural
gasoline reoovered was used as blendmg stock at refineries m Salt Lake
City. Residual gas was marketed through company pipelines.
Duchesne.-Petroleum production from four fields was 14 percent
below that of 1959. The principal producing field was the Duchesne.
The Rock Crook and Starr Flat fields had bOOn abandoned at yearend.
One new lUlRamed field was discovered in January. The discovery
well pumped 19 barrels of oil a day n:om an open hole in the Green
River formation at a depth of 2,330 to 2{!.46 feet. Gilsonite was pro-
duced by Standard Gilsonite Co. at the .l'arriette mine.
Emery.-Emery County ranked second in the production of bitu-
minous conI and u1'8nium ore, the combined value representing 99
percent of the value of mineral production in the county. Forty-one
percent of the output of bituminous coal was used at Utah steel plants
for the manufacture of coke. Leading producers were Columbia-
Geneva Steel at the Geneva mine in Carbon and Emery Counties, and
United States Fuel Co. at the Kingmine, also in Carbon and Emery
Counties. Miners.ls Development Co. acquired the Book Cliffs Coal
Co. in November. The purchased property COW3isted of mine equip-
ment, coal contracts, and 320 Mre.9 of coal lands adjoining those of
U.S. Steel.
Nature) gas froducM from three wells in the Flat Canyon field
and a. portion 0 the Clear Creek field was marketed through pipelines.
Uranium ore, produced at 41 operations, was 39 percent abOve that
of 1969. Major producers weI'l\ Four Corners O il & Minerals Co.,
Union Carbide Nuclear Co., Shattuck Denn Mining Corp.} and Welch
United Corp. The ore was shipped to p~ssin~ plants In Utah and
Colorado. Uranium ores in the Temple Mountam district contained
a significant quantity of vanadiwn wnich was recovered from those
ores proeE" led at mills in Colorado.
Garfield.- Uranium ore, produeed at 37 operations, accounted for 81
percent of the total value of mineral production in the county. The
major producer in terms of value was Harold C. Ekker, with 11 opera-
tions in the Henry Mountains and Little Rockies districts. The ore
was processed in Colorado where vanadium oxide contained in some
of the ores also was recovered. Coal was produced by Twitchell-
Munson Coal Co. at the Alvey mine.
Mine production of bentonite dropped to 850 tons in 1960 because of
reduced activity at the American Mud & Chemical Corp. mine and
plant neal' Cannonville. The county continued to rank second in the
collection of gem and ornament11 stones even though the total value
dropped from $33,000 in 1969 to $14,000 in 1960; in both years petri.
fied wood and agnte were the principal stones in terms of value.
Grand.-Petroleum production from four fields was 66 percent above
that of 1969. Ma10r output was from the Big Flat field. Natural gas
was produced at SIX wells in the Bar X field. Three new gaafields and
a new producing horizon were discovered. The discovery well at the
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1042 UlNERAY.8 YmARBOOK, 1900

Jim Creek field, completed in July. flowed 612,000 cubie feet of gas a
day from the Morrison fonnation at a depth of 5,184 feet. At the
Dwnond Ridge field, cliscovered in F ebruary, the discovery well
Oowed 1 million cubic feet of gas a day from the Dakota sandstone at
a depth of 7,2M to 7,284 feet. The Bry&on Canyon field was dis-
co,ered in October, and the disoovery well Bowed 6.1 million cubic
feet of gas a day from the Dakota SIlndstone a.t a depth of 4,264 to 4,89'2
feet. and 7.2 million cubic feet o f gas a day from the Morri90n forma-
tion at a depth of 4403 to 4,476 feet. In the Stateline field, a well
completed in April Howed 1.3 million cubic feet of gas a day from the
Dakota sandstone a t a depth of 3,&i9 to 3,800 feet lind 2.5 million cubic
feet of gas a day from the Cedar Mountain formation at a depth of
8,9M to 8,978 foot.
Uranium ore from 46 operations represented 79 percent of the total
value of all mineral production in the county. Major production was
by Union Carbide Nuclear Co. in the Polar Mesa distr ict; Thornburg
lfining Co. in the Seven Mite Canyon district; and Climax Umnium
Co. in the Yellow Cat, Cane Canyon, and Polar Mesa d istrict&
Nearly all the output was processed at plants in Colorndo where a
~ ignificant quantity of vanadium contained in the ore was recovered.
Uranium Reduction Co. operated its 1,500-ton-a-<1ay processing plant
at ltl00.b throughout the year_ Soma crude ore came from mIDes in
the county; however, the gJeatest part was from mines in San Juan
County. .
Iron.-Shipments of iron ore from Beven mines west of Cedllr City
in Iron County constituted the entiro output o f iron ore from Utah in
1960. The leadin~ producer, Columbia Iron Mining Co., shipped ore
from the Desert Mound and I ron Mountain mines. Utah Construe-
lion &; Mining Co. mined and shipped iron ore from the Blowout, Com-
stock, and Duncan mines for CF&I . In addition, Utah Construction
p:roduced iron oro from its Excelsior (Iron Springs) mine. Utah
Construction began construction of a $1.3 million iron ore treatmen~
plant, the first. in this area, to improve the quality of the ore and ex-
tend the ore re96rves. Iron ore was shipped from the Alberts Nos. I,
2, and 3 claims by Lambeth Bros.! lessees for H elene E. Bently. Iron
01'8 shipme.nts from Iron County lDcrneaed 17 percent in qua.nti ty and
20 peroent In value.
Coal p roduction from three mines was 14 percent above that of 1059.
Konl Kreek Coal Co. operated the J ones-Bulloch mine; Tucker Coal
Co., the Tucker mine; and Webster Coal Co., the Webster mine.
luab.-Nonmetnls again contributed 75 percent of the value of min-
enl production. HalToysit.e from the Dragon mine o f File!'OJ Corp.
headed the list of minemls. The ore produced from this property WIl8
shil?ped to the company's Salt Loke Ci ty plant for processmg. The
region around Delta supplied all of the metallu~cal·grade fluorspar
produced in Utah., and the county ranked first m the value of gem
and ornamental stones collected. D. J. Garrick mined the bulK of
the State output of barite f!'Om a Pnl:perty near Trout Creek.
Umnium are f!'Om tile Yellow Chief mine, operated by Topaz
Uranium Co., was 27 percent greater than in 1959 and represented
18 ~rcent of the totn.l value of mineral production in the county. The
(Intire output WII.S processed a~ Salt Lnke City.
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THE MINERAL INDOSiBT 0,. UTA'£[ 1043
Lead, zine. gold, silver, and copper were recovered from lead·zinc
ore produced hom three mines. In addition! aigl!ificant quantities
of thege metals wel'f! recovered from malerilll shIpped from the Godiva
dump by the Godiva Mining and Milling Co.
Kane.-Most of the value of mineral production came from coal
mined at the Smirl-Alton coni mine by W. J. Smir!. Recovery and
saleof gem stones accounted for the remfl..inder.
1Iillard.-E:t.cept for small quantities of zinc; lead, copper silver,
and gold'rthe $1:iO,ooo value of mineral output was supplied by non-
metals. D terms of value, pumice (scoria), from mmes near Fill·
more and Flowell by Cllfistensen Construction Co., Central Utah
Block Co., and Ralph Memmott" was the most important oommodity.
The construction of highwo.ys In the county stimulated an increase
in the quarrying of sand and gravel. Obsidian, agate, and petrified
wood gathered were valued at $4,800.
Ilorgan.-Principally beauS60f a decline in cement shipments from
the Devil's Slide plant of Ideal Cement Co..:,o the value of mineral
production decrea sed 6 percent from 1959. .ueclines in output were
also recorded for limestone used in the manufacture of cement, clay
used in the manufacture of hriclr and other heavy clay products, and
sand and gravel used in highway construction.
Small quantities of leail, zinc, and silver were recovered from ore
l::~uood at the Morgan Argentine mine by Continental Exploration

Piute.-Uranium ore from four mines operated by Vanadium Corp.

of America represented 04 pereent of the total value of mineral pro-
duction in the county. The entire output was plOO'ssed at Salt Lake
City. Small quantities of gold, silver, :.sper, lead, and zinc were
recovered from gold·silver and t ine ore p ueed from the Bully Boy
and Deer Tra.i1 mines, respectivell-
lUeh.-IncreasOO shipments 0 phosphate rock from the Bradley
mine of San Francisco Chemieal Co. doubled the value of minernl
production in Rich County. Crude material from this property was
transported to the company's Sage, Wyo.Umill for upS!ad!ng. More
intensive highway construction lor lhe tah State ~ Commia.
sion resulted in increased outPlit of sand and gravel.
Salt Lake.- Mineral prodUCtion from Salt Lake County represented
44 percent of the total value of mineral output from the State.
Copper production alone aceounted for three-quart.ers ($139.{ million)
of the $188.5 million value of mineral production in the county. A
large part of the gold and siher and all of the molybdenum were
recovered as hyproducts of the treatment of co:rper ore. Col?per pro-
duction increased 61 percent in quantity an 68 percent lD value,
compared with 1969, mainly because f rom mid-August 1959 until late
February 1960, a labor strike had idled the Utab Copper mining, mill-
ing, smelting, and refining complex, the county and State's Jending
oopper produC1!r. In 1000 the rom ptmy completed a major addition
to the powerplant at the Garfield smelter, began to modify the melter
operation, and began a spiral-haulage eJtC&vation in the company'.
o~n-pit mine.
The U.S. and Lark mine, second-largest copper, gold, and aiber
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1044 MINERALS YEARBOOK, 1960

producer and the lar,l!llSt lead and zinc producer in Utah, operated
throughout the year. L.ead-zinc ore from the mine was treated in the
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company Midvale mill. Lead concentrate was shipped to the Inter-

national Smelting and Refining Co. Tooele plant and the Asarco •
E lst Helena (Mont.) plant; zinc concentrate went to the Anaconda
(Mont.) plant. In addition, gold-silver ore from the mine was shipped
directly to the lnu-rnational Smelting Tooele plant. United States
Smelting Refining and !'fiuing Co. also shipped zinc slag from the
Midvale smelter dump to the Tooele plant and treated custom ore
purehased by the company and by International Smelting at the
Midvale mill. In its Tooele plant, International Smelting treated
zinc slag produced from the Murray smelter dump. Some lead-zinc
ore produced from the Wasatch Drainage Tunriel by Cardiff in-
dustries, Inc., was treated in the Midvale mill and some was shipped
directly to the Tooele smelter.
Nonmetals oontinued to supply products necessary for construction
and the production and processing of metals. The county was the
ffiD.jor souroe of sand and ~avel for residential and industrial con-
struct.ion. Cement produced by Portland Cement Co. of Utah was a
significant factor in the construction activity of the mineral industry.
A substantial quantity of limestone was quarried and used in man-
ufacturing of cement and lime. The need for large amounts of lime
stemmed from the use of lime in the processi!lg of copper ores. Great
SI.1t Lake was the principal source of salt in Utah, and solar-evapora-
tion facilities made Salt Lake County the leading producer. A small
quantity of byproduct pyrit6 was shipped to Garfield for the mAnU_
ruclure of sulfuric acid.
Oil refmeries in the Salt Lake City area operated the entire year.
Throughput was 31.2 million barrels of crude oil, an increase of 3
peralnt over that of 1959. A fire and explosion in the catalytic crack-
mg unit of the Utah Oil Refining Co. 35,700-barrel-a-day refinery at
8.1t Lake City caused damage to the unit estimated at $250,000. Two
workmen were killed and two intured. The removal of a valve that
released hot oil onto pipes carrym~ crude oil heated to 900 degrees
started the fire and resultin&, explOSIOn that took seven Salt Lake City
fire companies 4 hours to extinguish.
The 6OO-ton-a-day uranium processing plant of Vitro Chemical Co.
at Salt Lake City operated the entire year. In October the operating
rate was rednced to 500 tons of ore a day to establish a more econom-
ical operating rate until March 31, 1962, when the contract for the
purchase of uranium oxide concentrate by ABC was to expire. Nego-
ti!l.tions with AEC continued for a purehase contract for 1962-66.
San luan.-San J uan County led in the production of petroleum, nat-
ural gas natural gas liquids, uranium ore, and vanadium. Production
of petroleum f rom 618 wells in 17 fields was 9 percent below that of
1959. The decline was almost entirely in the Aneth) Ratherford, and
White Mesa fields in the Greater Aneth area. Notable gains were re-
corded in the McElmo, Cahone Mesa, and Rocllpture CrOOk fields. The
need for secondary recovery operntions in the Aneth area had been
studied for a conSiderable period. Primary methods will recover an
estimated 16 to 18 percent of the original oil reserve; water flooding
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and ropIl umg with gall over a period of 11 to Iii years would in-
i, crease the rooovery to about 30 percent at a cost of $12 to $14 million.
One secondag,-recovery unit in the MeElmo Creek field was formed
\ b;r Humble 011 and Refining Co. estimated to OO5t from $3 to $4 mil-
h on. Other units were to b8 fonned and plR.JUI were considered for 4
units consisting of !WO wells and M,ooo producing acres.
The No.1 Northwest Lisbon wel!.\ (completed on January" was
.pt\, described by aome as the "weI of the year. n The discovery
wei flowed 587 barrels of oil a day at II. depth of 8,251 to 8,848 feet
from the McCncken (Devonillll) formation, and tbe first in the
barrels of oil a day and 686,000 cubic feet of gas a da,
State from Devonian. A second well, completod in June, flowed 272
from MississiJr
pian fOI'IlmtioIllj at tI, deptl. of 8,767 to 8,830 feet. ThiS well established
the importance of Missi8B.i ppian formation in the field and was fol-
lowed by other completions, one of whi ch flowed 1,288 barrels of oil
Ilnd 2.8 million cubic feet of gas a day. Other di!!COveriea included a
we ll eouthwest of the Ismay field that pumped 14 barrels of oil a day,
one in the Gothic lf68IL area that flowed 98" barrels of oil a day from
the P aradox fortllatio.!!" and a third to the west that pumped 14 barrels
of oil a day from the H ermosa fonnation. At yearend a well at Anido
Creek, 7 miles south of the Whi te Mesa-Aneth area and 8 miles north·
east of the Boundary Dutle field in Arizona, was nearing oompletion.
Details of the rate of recovery were not available, but 0. substantial
flow was reported.
Development drilling was done in o.nd around the Greater Aneth
area fields. In the White Me;:a.-Southem McElmo Creek area., as
lUow-sful wella were completed; to the north in the Anet;h-McElmo
C j .- k-Recapture Creek area, 2G were completed; and in t.b& Ismay
field, the most. easterl, in tbe Utah portion of the Paradox basin, 18
were completed_ Theee oompl~ons made the e1fective length of the
field nearly 5 miles.
Oil-well gas f rom the On:l&ter Aneth area was procmd at the El
PIl80 Natural Gas Co. lOO-million-cnhic-foot-a.-day gas plant at Aneth.
Natural gas liquids were separated at the company Wingaf(! fractiona-
tion plant in New Mexico. Residual gas was marketed through pipe-
Iinee to consumel'll in California..
Uranium om from 170 operations "1'&815 pe~nt below that of 1959.
The average grade of ore shipped declined from 0.37 percent U.O.
(7.4 pounds per ton) to O.SI }!erce.nt (6.2 pounds per ton) in 1960.
Major produoersineluded The Hidden Splwaor Mining Co., Sta ndard
Metals, H omestue Mining Co., Utu Ezplo....tion Co., Ine., Tug..
Zinc Minerals Corp.iiand H eela Mining Co. The om was proc75!d
in milia at Mexican a~ Moa~ Salt lAke City:, and in southwestern
COlo....do. Ores containing significant quantities of vanadium were
proc -s""d at milia in southwestun COlo....do where the vanadium was
recovered. Texu-Zino Minenls Corp. ope .... ted its l,{)()().ton-a.-day
uranium ore ,Processins. plant at Mexican H at and ~vered canoen-
ti1lte oontairung gold, ailver, copper, lead, and zinc as a byproduct of
some San Juan County u .... mum On'S.
S&npete.-CIaJ8t salt, and sand and gravel accounted for 86 pereent
of the total val ue of Sanpete County nune ....l production. Cox BI"08. ;
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1046 MINERALS YEARBOOK, 19(10

Hales Sand & Gravel; and De Mar W. Brimhall Construction, con· ,,

tractors for the State highway depo.rlment; and construction crews !
of Ephrain City Corp. mined 181,500 tons of building and paving
ve}. A salt deROSit near Redmond was worked by :Morton Salt Co. I

E fonnexly Royal Cryst&l Salt Co.). From" deposit near Sterling,

me Utah Min!:f Co. recovered clay for use as " soil conditioner
and for poultry f .
Dry natural gas produced at Joe's Valley field by Three States
Natural Gas C<i was 119 percent below that of 1959. The g1lS was
ma.rketed through pipelines.
Sevitr.--Seventy-eight pel'alnt of the value of mineral output in
Sevier County resulted from the production and sale of nonmetals.
The extraction and ca1cinioE of gypsum near Si~rd acoounted fot"
most of the value. United States UYP!!1lID CO. and Bestwall Gypsum
Co'l the mine producers, operated wallboard plants in conjunction
witn their mines. Fuller's earth and bentonite were mined and
processed by Western Clay & Metals Co. Poulson Bros. Salt. Co.
produced rock salt. Coal production from the Southern Utah Fue]
Co. No.1 mine was 4 percent more than that of 1959. Uranium ore
from the Helms mine was shipped to plants at Sa.lt Lake City and
lfuab for processing.
Summit.-The value of gold, silver, copper, lead, and zinc output
represented $4.2 million (88 percent) of the $4.8 million combined
value of all minerals I?roduced in the county. The United Park City
mines operated by Umted P ark City Mine6 Co. and block leasers wns
the lea.din$ producer. To reduce the cost of operation, the complUly
eliminated overtime pny by switching its employees from a 48-hour
week to a 40-hour week and issued small block leases in frin~ areas
th.t could not be economically worked by the company's usmg nor-
mM operating procedures. United Park City and Keystone ~fin­
ing Co. conducted a joint exploration and development program at
the K eystone mine, and le.ad-zinc ore recovered as a result of this
work was treated at the United States Smelting Midvale mill. Me--
Farland & Hullingerllessees., shipped fluxing material from the Daly
mine dump, owned I>y United Park City llines Co., to the Utah
Copper Garfield copper smelter.
Coal production, an from the Chappel Coal Co., was 9 percent
above that of 1959.
Tooele.- The mineral industry of T ooele County continued to set
records in 1900. P roduction of nonmetal mineral products accounted
for 99 percent of the $6.1 million value of mineral output. The county
ranked first in shipments of lime, second in salt production, third in
qU3rrying of cloys, and was the only source of JlOt&sh in the State.
Limekilns ~ere III use at T he Utah L ime and /:itone Co. and Utah
M arblehead L ime Co. operations. The latter plant produced the only
dead-burned dolomite m the Rocky Mountam reglOn. SRit for in-
dustrial and human consumption was harvested at solllr-evaporation
facilities of Leslie Salt Co. llnd Solar Salt Co. Utah Salt Co. re-
covered byproduct solar-evaporntion salt from the brine ponds of the
Bonneville, Ltd., potash operation. Large quantities of limestone and
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, mined for Uge in manuf&Cturing lime, . and United
\ Refining and :Mining Co. rec()vei-ed oolitic limesand

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1048 loIINERALS YEARBOOK, 18110

through vertical
of the l,600-foot
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;t -;,~' to recover gasoline,

ook.
Utah.-CIay mining operations were reduced from seven to six in
1960 j clay output declined 51 percent. Clay mines operating n.t a
substantially IOl'l'cr rate of production were the North and Northeast
pits of Loyd R. Stubbs, Fawn mine of W estern Fire Clay Co., Powell
mine of I nterstate Brick Co., No. 24 pit of United Brick Co., and the
Clinton property of UWl Fire Clay Co. The Keigley quarry of U.S.
Steel and t.lie Lakeside pit of Lakeside Lime &. Stone Co. produced
48 percent more limestone. Stone f rom the Keigley mine was lI<oed
almost entirely 18 a. fiUl: at the U.S. Steel iron smelter, and the Lake-
aide stone Wall calcined to produce quicklime and hydrated lime.
The entire output of gold, silver, C()l?per, lead, and zinc came from
gold-silver ore produced at two operatIons. G. Wm. 'Vortley, Jews,
recovered material from the Eureka Standard dump, owned by
Eureka Standard Consolidated Mining Co., tI.Ild shipped it to the
Utah ~per GArfield copper smelter. A 8mlloll quantlty ot ore was
proda a nd marketed from Tintie ~tandard Mini ng Co. Iron
BIOIISOm mine by Glen l.&rseD, Ie -e.
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Wuatch.-ElI:cept for small quantitieaof StLDd and p-veJ and stone,

the entire mineral p roduction in the county comprISed gold , silver,
copper, lead, and ZIDO recovered from copper and lead-zinc orea at
the Mayflower-Galena and United P ark City mines. All of t he ore
f rom the Mayflower-Oalena mine (owned by New P a rk Mining Co.)
'ns produced by the Mayflower tense consisting of an average of
M professional miners working as independent contractors. "New
Park: continued a n exp loration and development proltram begun at
this mine in 1958 with fmancial assistance under DMEA, adm in-
istered by 011E. The program provided f or 6,000 feet of drifting
west of the shaft, 2,600 feet of clOieCuUing, 1l,000 feet of diamond
drilling, and 20,000 feet of long-hole drilling. The contract provided
f or p articipation by the Federal Go,·emment to the extent of 50
percent of the $(164,880 estimated cost.
Part of the United P ark City M ines Co. operation at the United
Par k City mines (described under Summit County) is in W asateh
o,unty. Ore p_roduced f rom the section of the mine in Wasatch
Cou~%,:as credited to W llsateh County.
W . gton.-Emerald L . Coli: ship ped crude copper ore containing
small quantiti68 of silver, lead, and zine from the Apex mine to the
Asaroo EI P aso (Tex.) copper smelter. Other mineral producll! from
the county ineluded !land and ,l!rav~l nnd orushed sandstone (for use
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in highway construction/, gem srones (gathered by ooliectol'S and
I dealers), and petroleum all froID the Virgin field).
Wayne.-Urnnium ore produced from the Big Jim and Congl !7?
I, mines was shipped to mills in Colorado f or processing. The ore con·
tained a significant quantity of vanadium, which was recovered. Oem
stones were oolJeeted by "rock hOlUlds" and dealers. A small shipment
of copper 0", containing small quantities of silver, lead, and zinc was
made from the Osborn mine to the International Smelting Tooele
plant.
Weber.-Most of the vnlue of mineral output came from sand and
gravel produced for building and highwa.r, construction. Miscella·
neous clay production, all from the HarriSVille Brick Co. operation at
Harrisville., was comparable \dth that of 19!.i9.