Gilsonite Country

by Uintah County Regional History Center

Gilsonite is a solid hydrocarbon mined in vertical veins in southern Uintah County, Utah. It is found in veins anywhere from a foot to twenty-two feet in width, and a depth of a few feet up to 2,000 feet. The black shiny mineral is not commercially mined anywhere else in the world and only found in a few other places. Following discovery, miners began working the gilsonite mines in the late 1800s. With the remoteness and distance to the mines, mining...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1634991125
• ISBN13: 9781634991124
• Release Date: March 2019
• Publisher: America Through Time
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.5" x 9.2"