There are inch-wide, black-colored, subvertical, northwest-southeast trending gilsonite dikes that have intruded the rocks at Fantasy Canyon.
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By 1938, all of the Gilsonite mining activity moved still further north, to the 1940 census recorded a " South Dragon precinct " population of 10.
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Mining Gilsonite during World War II was by hand, using a six-pound pick and then shoveling the ore into 200 pound sacks, which were sewn by hand.
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Founded in about 1888 as a Gilsonite mining camp, Dragon boomed in the first decade of the 20th century as the end-of-line town for the Uintah Railway.
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An example of this is within the Uinta Basin of Utah, in the US, where there is a swarm of laterally and vertically extensive veins composed of a solid hydrocarbon termed Gilsonite.
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The collection, although small in size, does contain some interesting pieces, including a close-coiled Fremont basket made from squawbush twigs and coated with gilsonite for waterproofing and a rare Ute Indian clay pot believed to be between 100 and 500 years old.
