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Hastings Pass Sand Dunes

Occurrence in Tooele county in Utah, United States with commodity Silica
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  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Public Land Survey System information
  6. Commodities
  7. Materials information
  8. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Ore body information
  11. Controls for ore emplacement
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Land status
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. General comments
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10012080
MRDS ID D007444
Record type Site
Current site name Hastings Pass Sand Dunes

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.97944, 40.64187 (WGS84)
Elevation 1686
Relative position 4 1/2 MILES SSW OF HASTINGS PASS

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Tooele(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Hastings Pass(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Tooele(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Tooele(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Southern Great Salt Lake Desert(hydrologic unit)

Great Salt Lake(hydrologic accounting unit)

Great Salt Lake(hydrologic subregion)

Great Basin(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Bureau of Land Management(Bureau of Land Management UT)

Bureau of Land Management UT BLM(Type of land area)

BLM(Federal land areas administered by BLM)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Utah Tooele

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 002S 010W 16 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • LOCATION GIVEN IS A REPRESENTATIVE POINT

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Silica Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Quartz Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Unconsolidated Deposit > Sand and Gravel
    Rock unit name Sand Dunes
    Rock description Sand Dunes
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Holocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Holocene

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.97944, 40.64187
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR
    Length 4827.9M
    Width 1609.3M
    Depth to top 0M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • West Flank Of Mountain Range

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Medium
Significant No

Mining district

District name Cedar Mountains

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • NO RESERVE FIGURES GIVEN

Comments on the workings information

  • NO WORKINGS

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    MAURER, R.E., 1970, GEOL. OF THE CEDAR MTNS., TOOELE CO., UTAH: UNIV. OF UTAH PH.D. DISSERTATION

  • Deposit

    1970 GEOLMAP UNIV. OF UTAH PH.D. DISSERTATIO

  • Production

    MAURER, R.E., 1970, GEOL. OF THE CEDAR MTNS.: UNIV. OF UTAH PH.D. DISSERTATION

  • Reserve-Resource

    MAURER, R.E., 1970, GEOL. OF THE CEDAR MTNS.: UNIV. OF UTAH PH.D. DISSERTATION.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit SCATTERED DUNES

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-DEC-1980 Doelling, Hellmut H. Bureau of Land Management

Beyond USGS

Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.

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