781The Mineral Industry of Utah 
 
This chapter has been prepared under a cooperative agreement for collecting
mineral data, except mineral fuels, between the Bureau of Mines, U.S. Department
of the Interior, and Utah Geological and Mineralogical Survey. 
 
 
By Douglas H. Hileman' and William C. Henkes2 
 
 
For the first time since 1963 the State recorded a decrease in the annual
value of mineral output—$94.4 million less than the record-high 1966
value of $448.9 million. The major loss was in metals resulting from the
copper strike, although losses were also recorded in mineral fuels and nonmetals.
The value of mineral production in 1967 was $354.5 million, less 
than in any year since 1957 when production amounted to $359.3 million. 
A total of 81.9 million tons of material was handled of which 37.2 million
tons was valuable material—including material from tailings and dumps—and
4-4.7 million 
 
 1 Mining engineer, Bureau of Mines, Salt Lake City, Utah. 
 2 Petroleum engineer, Bureau of Mines, Denver, Cob. 
 
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Table 1.—~Minera1 production in Utah 1 
1966 
Mineral 
 Quantity Value 
(thousands) 
 
1967 
 
 
 
Quantity Value (thousands) 
 
Carbon dioxide (natural) thousand cubic feet_  94,006Clays 2 thousand short
tons  89Coal (bituminous)  do.~ 4,635Copper (recoverable content of ores,
etc.)  short tons... 265,383Gem stones   NA 
 $7 
' 240 
26,762 
191,978 
 75 
65,664 
 114 
4,175 
168,609 NA 
 $5 
 288 
24,281 
128,905 
 80 
Gold (recoverable content or ores, etc.) troy ounces - 438,736 
Iron ore (usable) thousand long tons, gross weight_ - 1,956 
Lead (recoverable content of ores, etc.) short tons_ - 64,124 
Lime thousand short tons - 200Natural gas (marketed) million cubic feet_
69,366Petroleum (crude) thousand 42-gallon barrels - 24,112Salt thousand
short tons - 427 
15,356 
13,478 
19,385 
3,640 
8,809 
63,760 
3,770 
288,350 
1,708 
53,813 
 169 
48,965 
24,048 
 403 
10,092 
11,916 
15,068 
3,182 
6,463 
63,221 
3,525 
Sand and gravel do~._~ 12,368 Silver (recoverable content of ores, etc.)

 thousand troy ounces_ 7,755 
Stone thousand short tons - 2,246 
Uranium 3 (recoverable content T1308)_thousand pounds_ - 1,225 
Vanadium short tons~~ 353 
Zinc (recoverable content of ores, etc.) do_ - - - 37,323 
Value of items that cannot be disclosed: Asphalt and related bitumens, cement,
clays (fire clay and halloysite), fluorspar, gypsum, magnesium chloride,
molybdenum, natural gas liquids, perlite, phosphate rock, potassium salts,
pumice, pyrites, and tungsten concentrate (1967).... XX 
 Total XX Total 1957—59 constant dollars XX 
12,937 
 
10,028 
4,269 
9,797 
1,519 
10,824 
 
 
 
 
52,243 
9,412 
 
4,875 
1,831 
1,287 
471 
34,251 
 
 
 
 
XX 
8,631 
 
7,556 
4,108 
10,300 
2,024 
9,483 
 
 
 
6 45,349 - 
 
' 448,877 
' 395,652 
XX 
XX 
354,477 
308,157 
 Revised. NA Not available. XX Not applicable. 
 1 as measured by mine shipments, sales, or marketable production (including
consumption by producers). 
2 Excludes fire clay and halboysite; included with "Value of items that cannot
be disclosed." 
 Method of reporting changed from short tons of ore and f.o.b. mine value
(AEC Circular 5, Revised price schedule) to recoverable pounds of uranium
oxide and f.o.b. mill value. 
4 Value of metals and mineral fuels, $29,251,000; value of nonmetals, $22,992,000.

 Value of metals and mineral fuels, $22,458,000; value of nonmetals, $22,891,000.