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Show Salt Co. ~nd Morton Salt Co., but early in 1958 Royal Crystal was dissolved and Morton IS now sole operator. . SAND AND GRAVEL: Salt Lake County is Utah's biggest producer of this mmer~l. It s~pplies enoug~ for its own requirements and ships to many other countIes and m~o nelghbonng states as far as freight rates will permit. There ar~ numerous PIts north of Salt Lake City and along the East Bench to the Pomt of the Mountain . Top produc.er is the u.tah S~~d & Gravel Products Corp. At ~e~st ten other firms ha ve crushmg, screemng, slzmg and loading plants, in addItIOn to sta.t e, county ~ nd. city road c~nstru ction operations. Sand and gravel h.as dev.eloped mto a multI-mIllIon dollar mdustry in the county, the 1965 produ ctIOn bemg 4,139,000 tons, valued at $4,400,000. Producing sand and gravel companies, as listed in A Directory of the Mining Industry, 1965, publIshed by t he Utah Geological and Mineralogical Survey a nd in ' State Industrial Commission records, are as follows: A-I Sand & Gravel Co. A & L Concrete Co. (R eady Mix) Beehive Sand & Gravel Co. Big Cottonwood Sand & Gravel Co. Breit ling Bros. Construction Co. Bnmhall Sand & Grave~ Co . Dan H . Fogle R ed-E-Mlx W . and W . B. Gardner, In c. GIbbons & Reed Construction Co. Harper-Jackson Sand & Gravel Co . P. C. Kimball Utah Sand & Gravel w.. Frank Naccarotto M a rvin Nowell Prince Block Co. James Reed R eyn olds Sand & Gravel Co. Salt La ke County Ro ads Dept. Sorenson Construction Co. Southeast Sand & Gravel Co. (Ready Mix) Thomas Sand & Gravel Co. Union Pacific Railroad Co. George A. Wood Products Corp. (Ready Mix ) SILICA: Silica h as been produced at various times from deposits in Mill Creek ~anyon , m the Dra per area, a nd in the Hot Springs district north of Salt Lake CIty. Interstate Brick Co. qu arries silica and processes it on its Salt Lake CIty propertIes. The product is used by Interstate and also sold to firms in the area t hat consume refractories. A substantial to nna ge goes to Kennecott for us~ as a fluxing material at t he Garfield copper smelter. A large volume of SIlIca com es fr om the Rideou t quarries near the Point of t he Mountain, in t h e Draper area. The Utah Sand & Gravel Products Corp. has a n inacti ve qu arry in North Salt La ke. Most of this firm's production comes from the K earns area so uthwest of Salt Lake City, where the regular sand deposits a re more than 90% SIlIca. SLAG: Slag fr om t he old sm elter properties in Murray and Midva le and from Kenn~cott's copper smelter is used as a concrete aggregate, as a n in gredient m road mIxes a nd mmeral wool a nd in t he processing of cemen t in Utah cement pla nts; also for sand -blasting m ateria l and railroad bedding. STONE: Building stone of good quali ty is found in the canyo ns of t h e Was atc ~ Range on the eastern border of the county-sandstone in P arley's, EmIgratIOn and R ed Butte canyo ns; grani te in Little Cottonwood. There are quarries in ~arley's a nd Little Cottonwood that produ ce intermittently . A number of qu~rne~ that produ ced m volume when building stone was a more popular cons~ructlOn Item are n ow mactlve. It was Litt le Cottonwood Canyon that furnIshed t he granite f?r the building of the famous Salt La ke T emple. Wilford H. Hansen Stone QuarrIes, Inc., Sandy, produces granite for building ston e, a nd crushed sandstone has been produced in Parley's Canyon in recent years by Aggre~ate . Supply, .Inc. for use in precasting. M a rble (Parley's buff) is also quarned In Parley s Canyo n by Rocky Mountain Aggregates, Inc. and furnished to Style-Crete, Inc., Salt Lake City. The Aggregate Supply, Inc. has also produced quartzite in the county for use in t h e ma nufacture of cast stone products, but the location of t h e quarry is not generally known. R. Whitmore of Salt La ke City quarries granite intermittently at t he T emple Granite Quarry in Little Cottonwood Canyon a nd crushes it for use as poultry grits. TAILINGS: The Great Salt Lake Authority and Kennecott are currently conducting a joint venture to determine whether large-scale diking of the Great Salt Lake with tailings from t he Garfield copper smelter and the use of these tailings in the construction of roadbeds would be feasible. In 1966, a 2,600foot peninsula was extended into Great Salt Lake, no t far fro m t h e smelter, by use of 400,000 tons of tailings. Engineers will study the effects of wind and water to determine if the tailin gs will m ake a good " fill " ma teria l. ,Minel1CJls Produced Elsewhere and Processed in Salt Lake County ARAGONITE: The Utah Calcium Co., Inc. quarries se lect rock from Aragonite, Tooele County, a nd crushes it for use as roofing grits and as an im portant ingredient in poultry and livestock feeds. It is a lso used in the m aking of cast stone. Custom Milling & Supply Co. purchases arago ni te fro m Uta h Calcium a nd pulverizes it for use in t he marking of football fields, grass te nnis courts, etc . Unlike hydrated lime, which is also used for t his purpose, it makes a clear white lin e without burning t he grass. The pulverized product is a lso used for pain t fill er a nd in making plastics. ASBESTOS: Small quantities of asbestos are imported from Canada 's Quebec Provin ce by Vermiculite Intermountain, Inc. for use in making high temperature insulating cement a nd acou stica l plaster. BARITE: Custom Milling & Supply Co. buys this mineral from a n operation n ear Battle Moun tain , Nevada and sometimes from Ca lifornia and Idaho for u se in the m aking of drilling muds for the oil drilling industry. BAUXITE: Rockymountain Refractories imports bauxite from countries outside of the U. S. for use in the m a king of refr actory products. BRUCITE: Also brought into t h e coun ty by Rockymountain Refractories from a deposit in Nevada and used as an ingredient in making some of its produ cts. CHROMITE: Is imported from t h e Philippin es by Rockymountain Refractories. CLAYS: All clay used in ceramics a nd art work by Uta h manufacturers is imported because Utah clays do no t ha ve the high degree of purity required fo r t h ese uses. An extremely white clay is brought in from Georgia by Bennetts for use as a pain t fill er. Brick clay for use by su ch firm s as Interstate Brick Co., International Pipe and Ceramics and Rockymountain Refractories and used in t h e manufacture of bricks and other clay produ cts is imported from Hen efer , Summi t Coun ty; Sevier, in Sevier Coun ty; the Clin ton Pits west of Lehi, and the Five Mile Pass deposits in Uta h Coun ty; the Five Mile Pass area in Tooele Coun ty; oth er properties west of Uta h Lake; a deposit n ear Eva nston, Wyo ming, a nd from Colorado. Rockymountain Refrac tories brings in kyanite clay from as far away as Virginia. GYPSUM : Wasatch Chemical Co. of Sa lt Lake City uses some of t his mineral fr om Sevier Coun ty in the manufacture of ch emica ls; C. P. Curtis' staturary a nd art goods plant in Salt La ke City makes use of it in statuary and other art objects; Vermiculite Intermountain, Inc. processes gypsum rock and resells it to cemen t pla nts for use in t he manufacture of Portland cemen t . During W orld War II, when the regular rock could n ot be secured, Vermiculi te In termoun tain used gypsum from the dunes west of Fillmore in Millard County. 67 |
