The Mountains Held a Treasure Trove of Minerals

History Blazer, December 1995 Gold seekers like the Donner Party passed right by the Oquirrh Mountains on their way to California. Ironically, they overlooked one of the richest mountain ranges in the world. The Oquirrhs extend approximately thirty miles. The northern portion of the range reaches into the Great Salt Lake. The southern part ends in small hills northwest of …

Daniel Jackling

(1859 – 1956) The father of Utah copper mining, Jackling helped found the Utah Copper Co. in 1903. Figuring that mining would only be profitable with the open-pit method of ore recovery, he began in Bingham Canyon what was to become the world’s largest open-pit mine. Kennecott eventually bought the mine, and copper became king in Utah.