UtMines Mining Artifacts
Uranium mining in Ut has a history going back more than 100 years. Uranium started as a byproduct of vanadium mining about 1900, became a byproduct of radium mining about 1910, then back to a byproduct of vanadium when the radium price fell in the 1920s. Ut saw a uranium boom in the late 1940s and early 1950s.