From the Ground Up [electronic resource] : A History of Mining in Utah / edited by Colleen Whitley ; foreword by Philip F. Notarianni.

Publication:

Logan, UT : Utah State University Press, c2006. (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)

Series:

Book collections on Project MUSE.

Format/Description:

Book
1 online resource (xiv, 506 p., [3] folded leaves of plates :) illustrations, maps (some col.) ;

Subjects:

Mining engineering -- Utah -- History.
Mines and mineral resources -- Utah -- History.

Form/Genre:

Electronic books.

Contents:

I. The ground of Utah mining. Geology and Utah's mineral treasures / William T. Parry
Generating wealth from the earth, 1847-2000 / Thomas G. Alexander
General Patrick Edward Conner, father of Utah mining / Brigham D. Madsen
The stories they tell / Carma Wadley
II. Some mineral industries. Saline minerals / J. Wallace Gwynn
Coal industry / Allan Kent Powell
Uranium boom / Raye C. Ringholz
Beryllium mining / Debra Wagner
III. Major mining regions. Iron County / Janet Burton Seegmiller
Bingham Canyon / Bruce D. Whitehead and Robert E. Rampton
Silver Reef and southwestern Utah's shifting frontier / W. Paul Reeve
Alta, the Cottonwoods, and American Fork / Laurence P. James and James E. Fell, Jr.
Park City / Hal Compton and David Hampshire
Tintic Mining District / Philip F. Notarianni
San Francisco Mining District / Martha Sonntag Bradley-Evans
Uinta Basin / John Barton.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 456-482) and index.
Description based on print version record.

Contributor:

Whitley, Colleen, 1940-
Project Muse.

ISBN:

9780874215441
0874216397 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780874216394 (pbk. : alk. paper)

OCLC:

71281683

Online:

Connect to full text
https://muse.jhu.edu/book/9302/