Iron Min- ing and Manufacturing in Utah: A History.
York Jones, former mine manager of an iron-ore mine in Utah (deceased), and his son Evan have compiled the history of iron mining and manufacturing in Utah from its geological ori-gins …
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Iron Mountain Mines Near Newcastle, Utah | The Diggings™
The Iron Mountain Mines are located in close proximity to the town of Newcastle, Utah. This region has significant historical ties to the Pinto Iron Mining District, which is currently …
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The Atlantic City Project
The hills of the Sweetwater Mining District hold various minerals, and beginning in the 1960s, iron ore mining provided an economic boom for the area. (A historical marker located near Lander in Fremont County, Wyoming.) ... where it connected with the main line and rolled to the Geneva Steel Works in Provo, Utah and was converted into a ...
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Columbia and Geneva Coal Mines
The two locomotives were sent to U. S. Steel's Geneva steel plant near Provo, Utah. -- Extra 2200 South, Issue 80, published in May 1984, p. 30) January 1984 U. S. Steel informed the Utah Division of Oil, Gas and Mining that it would permanently close the Geneva coal mine. (Documents on file at Utah Division of Oil, Gas and Mining) March 1984
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Mining the Iron Mountain
The Iron Mountain mine in southwestern Utah has served as a source of iron ore for many uses during its 160-year history. From the mid-19th century to the early years of the 21st century, its magnetite/hematite ores were first used to forge pioneer-era hinges and hardware, later for wartime steelmaking and then for producing plate, pipe and ...
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Gibson Mine Map
Gibson Mine is a quarry in Carbon, Utah and has an elevation of 7,867 feet. Mapcarta, the open map. ... Provo, West Valley City and Bryce Canyon National Park. Salt Lake City ... Mina La Esperanza Mine. Iron Ore Lode Mine Quarry. Mina Meregildo Mine. Mine des Beni Akil Mine. Deutsch; Español; Français; Português; About Mapcarta. A heartfelt ...
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Trixie Mine
Provo Mining & Construction, Inc. was awarded the project management of the Trixie Gold Mine Rehabilitation and Restart and commenced work in August of 2019. Within 14 months, Provo, achieved the full rehabilitation and restart of …
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Cedar City, Utah Mines
Filter 116 mines by commodity, disposition, development status, and record type in Cedar City, Utah.
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Dragon Mine
The Dragon Mine is located in the Tintic District of North Central Utah, approximately 60 miles southwest of Salt Lake City. The Dragon Mine represents one of the largest known deposits of halloysite in the world and contains an ultra-pure iron oxide resource consisting of …
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Provo Copper Mine Near Eureka, Utah | The Diggings™
The Provo Copper Mine, located near Eureka, Utah, is situated within the East Tintic Mining District, an area with a rich mining history. As of the time of data entry, the Provo Copper Mine was closed and there were no known plans to reopen it. ... Ore Control: lithology, faulting; Unconsolidated Material Thickness: 2 meters average; Ore Record ...
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Utah's Iron Mission
The general opinion of the quality of the iron was very favorable. It is to be hoped that stoves and other articles of the Utah iron will soon be made in Territory. —Nov. 11th. Iron Production. Ten tons more of Utah iron is on the way to this city from the Western Company's works at Iron City. —Dec. 1st. Castings from Utah Iron.
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Utah Mining Tour
Cave Fill Ore, Burgin Mine. Unknown Mine, Azurite and Malachite, copper ore minerals. Dragoon Mine, Halloysite, an unusual clay mineral. This early mine produced iron fluxing material for smelters. It continues to be part of Tintic's more modern mining history by producing Halloysite that is used in the ceramics industry.
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UP Iron Ore Trains
I've heard that some of that ore ran via UP-Provo-DRGW (Tennessee Pass) in the late-1940s / steam era. However, it appears that most, if not all, was routed via Wyoming (Rawlins, Speer) starting sometime in the 1950s. ... Production from the iron mines at Utah's Iron Mountain fell by 2/3 when the Atlantic City mine opened in 1963, and it was ...
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Mining the Iron Mountain
CML Metals, operator of the Iron Mountain mine in southwestern Utah, extracts about 2.1 million tons of iron ore annually from the Comstock-Mountain Lion pit, augmented by approximately 800,000 tons of 'lean' …
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For decades, Geneva Steel ruled Utah County economy
The Deseret News has reported on the historic mill, named for an old gathering place at the edge of Utah Lake, extensively over the years. It was in 1941 when the U.S. Government decided to build a steel mill there. The location was chosen for its proximity to the railroad and also to nearby coal, iron ore and limestone and dolomite mines in Utah.
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The Discovery, Development and Demise of Wyoming's Atlantic City Iron Mine
The story of Wyoming's Atlantic City iron ore mine, atop South Pass, is one that grew out of the consequences of the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. As a result of an immediate need for steel, the U.S. government built a fully integrated steel plant at Provo, Utah where all the needed raw materials were located within ...
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Iron Mountain Mines Near Newcastle, Utah | The Diggings™
Iron mining deposit report for "Deposit #Usgs10300098" (#USGS10300098) in Iron County, Utah. ... P.O. Box 2500 Provo, Utah 84603. Type Owner-Operator Stake Majority. Commodities. Additional textual information about a site or mine. ... ALSO LOCATED HIGH ON EAST SIDE OF IRON MT. ORE BODY IS FISSURE VEIN 300 M LONG, 0. 61-6. 1 M WIDE. IT IS CUT ...
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Mountain Lion Mine
The Mountain Lion Mine is a iron mine located in Iron county, Utah at an elevation of 6,683 feet. Skip to content. Western Mining History. ... P. O. Box 2500, Provo, Ut 84603 Info Year: 1991. Production. Year: 1989 Description: Direct-Ship Iron Ore (Comstock/Mt Lion) 465000 Metric Tons Year: 1988 Description: Comstock/Mt Lion Production ...
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UTIRON DEPOSITS
Iron ore, in form of magnetite and hematite, has long been known to exist in deposits of economic significance within the state of Utah. The iron ores of southern Utah were utilized as early as 1856 when iron ore was reduced in an imperfect furnace at Cedar City. Directly because of these extensive deposits along with large and
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UP Cedar City Branch
(LA&SL Condensed Profile, 1976, page 68, Utah Division Iron Mountain Branch) Iron ore shipments continued until 1981 when United States Steel ceased its operations. Geneva Steel resumed iron ore mining in 1985, but closed its iron ore operations in Utah in 1995. Mining operations lay dormant until shipments resumed in 2008, bound for export to ...
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FACT SHEET AND STATEMENT OF BASIS UTAH IRON, …
The Utah Iron, LLC – Iron MountainMine (Mine) is an active open-pit iron mine facility and associated iron ore mill with standard industrial classification code (SIC) 1011 for iron ores and SIC code 1081 for active and inactive metal mining and ore dressing facilities. The Mine first began operations in 1851and
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Silver in the Beehive State
The history of silver in Utah is a long and fascinating one. Some evidence exists that Spaniards and Mexicans, and perhaps Native Americans, engaged in mining at various locations throughout the state—including present-day Iron County, Utah Valley, Summit County near Kamas, and Minersville–before permanent white settlement began with the arrival of the Mormons in 1847.
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Geneva Steel 1916-1950 History
Young, George 1. "Making Pig Iron from Utah Ore." BF&SP 13(3):123-5 (Mar 25). (Originally published in Engineering & Mining Journal Press) September 1926: The coal used at Provo is 100 percent Carbon County coal containing more than 10 percent oxygen and over 40 percent volatile matter when dry.
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Ironton Adit Near Springville, Utah | The Diggings™
The Ironton Adit, located near Springville, Utah, is a significant historical site within the Provo Mining District, which is now part of the Uinta National Forest. The mining operations at this …
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Ares Strategic to start operations at only fluorspar mine in US
Ares Strategic Mining (TSXV: ARS) announced that it has received approval to commence mining operations and an environmental permit for its Lost Sheep fluorspar project in Utah.
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Railroads Bring Everything to Geneva
blast furnaces comes from the Columbia Iron Mining Company's mines at Iron Mountain, Utah, 252 mi. southwest of Geneva. About 100 cars of the rust red "guts of the sleel business" are brought to Geneva daily by the Union Pacific. Iron Mountain also pro duces ore for Geneva Steel's Ironton plan at Provo and substantial quantities for movement ...
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Provo Shaft
The Provo Shaft is a lead mine located in Utah county, Utah at an elevation of 6,119 feet. About the MRDS Data: All mine locations were obtained from the USGS Mineral Resources Data System. The locations and other information in this database have not been verified for accuracy. It should be assumed that all mines are on private property.
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Old Irontown
Iron mining was not profitable in Iron County, until the Columbia Steel Corporation built a blast furnace at Irontown, near Provo, Utah. With the demand for iron ore rising, Union Pacific, in 1923, agreed to construct a spur line. The new rail line would pass …
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Comstock Mine
Home Office: P. O. Box 2500, Provo, Ut 84603 Info Year: 1990. Production. Year: 1981 Description: Direct-Shipment Iron Ore 79530 Metric Tons ... Reference (Deposit): U.S. BUREAU OF MINES PRODUCTION STATISTICS: IRON ORE, UTAH, The Top Ten Gold Producing States. These ten states contributed the most to the gold production that built the West from ...
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Geneva Steel
Kaiser owned a coal mine in Carbon County, Utah (D&RGW service) that provided the bulk of the metalurgical (met) coal used at Fontana but it was mixed with a much smaller quantity of high quality met coal from someplace in the Ozarks -- pretty much the same thing as was used at the Geneva Works outside Provo. And in the war years, iron ore came ...
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