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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
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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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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 $75,000, Other companies prospecting or exp!orlng
111 the area included E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., Inc., United
States Steel Corp., Combined Metals Reduction Co., Food Machinery
& Chemical Corr'). Interoations1 Minerals & Chemical Corp. (IYC),
and Minerva Oi \.A).-The New Jersey Zinc Co.
Cobalt.-Minerals Enginooring Co. and Susquehanna-Western, Inc.,
purchased the Howe SOund Co. coba.lt refinery 20 miles west of Ss1t
Lake City. The plant was to be converted to produce vsnadium pen-
toJ.:ide for uses in nuclear energy, alloy stools, and vehicle smog-control
devices. To assure a Muree of raw materlal, the companies siped
a 5:year contract with Mineral Products Division of Food Machmery
& Chemical Corp. in May for vanadium·bearing slag resulting from
treatment of phos'phatic ores in Idaho and Montana.. Previous plans
of Minerals Engineering for new refining facilities adjacent to its
S alt Lake City tungsten plant were set aside.
Coppel",-Utah continued to rank second only to Arizona in copper
output. The value of copper production accounted for 33 pe~nt of
the total value of minemls produced in the State. Copper production
inerell!led 51 percent in quantity and 1i8 percent in value compared
with H)59. Production of oopper advanced from 990 tons in January
to 16,400 tons in February, 20,100 tons in March, and 21,200 tons in
April. Copper production avera~ 19,900 toilS per mont h for the
remaining 8 months with monthly figu~ either above or below the
April output.
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1RE MlNERAL INDUSTRY 01' UTAH 1023
FIoou I.- Value o.t &Old, ,Ufer, copper, lead, .ud Iloe, and total nIne or all
m1uetl.lII In Ut&1l, 19$-00.
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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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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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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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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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Montana., NevadA, Oregon. Washington, Wyoming.
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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
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. 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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in the toIU1age of a.ll typos of stone quarried. The oompletion of oon-
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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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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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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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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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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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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
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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