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West Grassy Ridge 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. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mining district
  13. Land status
  14. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. General comments
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10012260
MRDS ID D007801
Record type Site
Current site name West Grassy Ridge Sand Dunes

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -113.06611, 40.78299 (WGS84)
Elevation 1323
Relative position 3-4 MILES WEST OF GRASSY RIDGE

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Tooele(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Ripple Valley(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Bonneville Salt Flats(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Tooele(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Northern 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 001N 011W 26,27,34,35,22,23 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • PARTS OF ABOVE SECTIONS AND SECS. 3, 4, 9, 10, AND 14

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Silica Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Sand 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) -113.06611, 40.78299
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR
    Length 4827.9M
    Width 1174.79M
    Depth to top 0M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Grassy Mtns

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Comments on the workings information

  • NO WORKINGS

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    DOELLING, H.H., 1964, GEOLOGY OF THE NORTHERN LAKESIDE MOUNTAINS AND THE GRASSY MOUNTAINS AND VICINITY, TOOELE AND BOX ELDER COUNTIES, UTAH: PH.D. THESIS, UNIVERSITY OF UTAH

  • Deposit

    1964 GEOLMAP UNIV. OF UTAH PH.D. THESI

  • Production

    DOELLING, H.H., 1980, ON SITE INVESTIGATION: UT. GEOL. AND MIN. SURV.

  • Reserve-Resource

    DOELLING, 1980, ON SITE INVESTIGATION: UT. GEOL. AND MIN. SURVEY

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit SCATTERED DUNES

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-SEP-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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