Mineral Resources

Mineral Activity Summary

Mineral Activity/Utah Mining/Extractive Resource Industries (pdf)

Presentations

Potash Bed Mapping in Northern San Juan County, Paradox Basin, Utah

Andrew Rupke and Taylor Boden, Utah Geological Survey
Presented at AAPG-Rocky Mountain Section, Grand Junction, CO, September 2012

Poster (8MB)

Publications 2000-2016

Energy & Mineral Resource Maps
Includes statewide resource maps.

Energy & Mineral Research
Includes publications resulting from this research program.

Gilsonite Veins of the Uinta Basin, by Taylor Boden and Bryce T. Tripp, 50 p., 1 pl., 2012 Special Study 141
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Limestone, Dolomite, and Building Stone of Sanpete County, Utah, by Andrew Rupke, Bryce Tripp, and Taylor Boden, 21 p. + 48 p. appendices, 1 pl., 2011 Open-file Report 580
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Building stone quarries and yards, Utah and parts of Arizona, Idaho, Montana, Washington, and Wyoming, by David E. Boleneus, 103 p. + 236 p. appendices, 3 pl., 2008 Open-file Report 521
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Selected mining districts of Utah, by Carl L. Ege, 59 p., 2005 Miscellaneous Publication 05-5
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High-calcium limestone resources of Utah, by Bryce Tripp, 83 p., 2005 Special Study 116
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Energy, mineral, and ground-water resources of Carbon and Emery Counties, Utah, by Gloyn, R.W., Tabet, D.E., Tripp, B.T., Bishop, C.E., Morgan, C.D., Gwynn, J.W., and Blackett, R.E., 162 p., 2003 Bulletin 132
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Publications 1979-2000

A preliminary assessment of energy and mineral resources within the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, 1997, Circular 93 (out of print)

Mineral, energy, and ground-water resources of San Juan County, Utah, by R.W. Gloyn, C.D. Morgan, D.E. Tabet, R.E. Blackett, B.T. Tripp, and M. Lowe, 39 p., 1995 Special Study 86 (out of print)

Mines and prospects in and around the Farmington Canyon complex, northern Utah, by R.W. Gloyn, M.A. Shubat, and Bea Mayes, 30 p. + 66 p. appendices, 6 pl., 1:100,000, 1995 Open-file Report 325
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The quartzite building stone industry of the Raft River and Grouse Creek Mountains, Box Elder County, Utah, by B.T. Tripp, 19 p., 1994 Special Study 84
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The geology of Kane County, Utah; geology, mineral resources, geologic hazards, by H.H. Doelling and F.D. Davis with sections on petroleum and carbon dioxide by C.J. Brandt, 192 p., 10 pl., 1989 Bulletin 124
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Geology and mineral potential of the Antelope Range mining district, Iron County, Utah, by M.A. Shubat and W.S. McIntosh, 1988, 26 p., 2 pl., 1988 Bulletin 125
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Geology and mineral resources of Box Elder County, Utah, by H.H. Doelling (with J.A. Campbell, J.W. Gwynn, and L.I. Perry), 251 p., 3 pl., 1980 Bulletin 115
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Geology, ore deposits and history of the Big Cottonwood mining district, Salt Lake County, Utah, by L.P. James, 98 p., 4 pl., 1979 Bulletin 114
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