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The War on Utah Mining History

The war on US Mining history: Some “statistics” from UTAH Last Updated: 14th Dec 2016 By Russell Hartill Out here in Utah, USA, the Abandoned Mine Reclamation Program of the State Division of Oil Gas and Mining is fond to cite the […]

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Russell Hartill

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Russ Hartill has spent half a century studying mining history. He is a lawyer and mining historian; co-author of Desert Fever and author of Preserving Our Mining Heritage. Russ graduated from California State University Fullerton with a degree in history after work at the Colorado School of Mines (Geophysical engineering) and Cal State Sacramento (rec and park admin) His JD is from the University of Idaho College of Law. He is uniquely qualified to take the reader on a tour of mining Deseret. He lives in Magna, Utah.

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