From the ground up the history of mining in Utah
Despite all mining has done and meant in Utah, there has not been, until now, a book that surveyed its history in Utah. This collection of essays by leading experts is divided into three comprehensive parts. Part I looks at the geology that has produced extractable minerals, the economic history of...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Logan, UT
Utah State University Press
2006, ©2006©2006
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| Collection: | JSTOR Open Access Books - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| Summary: | Despite all mining has done and meant in Utah, there has not been, until now, a book that surveyed its history in Utah. This collection of essays by leading experts is divided into three comprehensive parts. Part I looks at the geology that has produced extractable minerals, the economic history of the industry, 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 |
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| Item Description: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002 |
| Physical Description: | xiv, 506 pages, 3 unnumbered leaves of plates illustrations, maps (some color) |
| ISBN: | 6613275263 9786613275264 1283275260 9781283275262 0874216397 9780874216394 |