Utah tells the truth to anyone who reads it: modest gold, world-class rocks, and more documented uranium ground than any state on the club map.
Topaz Mountain in the Thomas Range gives up sherry-colored topaz crystals to anyone with a screen and patience, free on open ground. The San Rafael Swell and the Moab country carry agate, jasper and petrified wood, and Utah's fee-digs add trilobites by the bucket at Delta.
Utah holds thousands of documented uranium and thorium occurrences, the Uravan-belt edge, the White Canyon and Lisbon Valley districts among them, all pinned raw on the club map with the hot-ground rules attached: never camp on tailings, never enter old workings, do not breathe the dust, do not pocket ore. The pins exist so you can be fascinated at a safe distance.
Utah gold is a sideline: fine color in the Tushar Mountains and along a few desert ranges, plus byproduct gold from the great copper pit at Bingham. Pan for the experience; come to Utah for the stones and the country.
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