Flux and South Flux Quarries

Past Producer in Tooele county in Utah, United States with commodity Limestone, General
Sections on this page
  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Public Land Survey System information
  6. Commodities
  7. Host and associated rocks
  8. Nearby scientific data
  9. Geologic structures
  10. Ore body information
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mining district
  13. Land status
  14. Ownership information
  15. Workings at the site
  16. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. General comments
  19. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10019979
MRDS ID DC12112
Record type Site
Current site name Flux and South Flux Quarries

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.55553, 40.67021 (WGS84)
Elevation 1305
Relative position APPROX. .75 MI. SOUTH OF THE FLUX STATION ON THE WESTERN PACIFIC RAILROAD

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Tooele(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Flux(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Tooele(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Tooele(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Rush-Tooele Valleys(hydrologic unit)

Great Salt Lake(hydrologic accounting unit)

Great Salt Lake(hydrologic subregion)

Great Basin(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Utah Tooele

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 002S 006W 05,08 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • LOCATION GIVEN IS A REPRESENTATIVE POINT

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Limestone, General Primary

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone
    Rock unit name Great Blue Limestone
    Rock description Great Blue Limestone
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Mississippian
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Mississippian

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.55553, 40.67021

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Deseret Anticline
Type of structure Local
Structure description Broad Canyon Reverse Fault

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR

Comments on the geologic information

  • THE BROAD CANYON REVERSE FAULT TRUNCATES THE GREAT BLUE LIMESTONE BETWEEN DRY AND MAGPIE CANYONS.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Non-metallic
Deposit size Medium
Significant No

Mining district

District name Free Coinage

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Owner-Operator
    Owner Portland Cement Co.

Comments on the production information

  • PORTLAND CEMENT CO. IS TAKING ROCK FROM THE DUMP FOR CEMENT PRODUCTION.

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface
    Area 23.393HA
    Overall length 2712.72M
    Overall width 91.44M

Comments on the workings information

  • AT LEAST SIX MAJOR CUTS WERE MADE AND WORKED, IN A LINEAR SERIES FROM NORTH TO SOUTH, IN SECS. 5 AND 8, T2S, R6W.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    GARVIN, R.F., COMPILER, 1966, A DIRECTORY OF THE MINING INDUSTRY OF UTAH, 1965: UTAH GEOL. AND MINERAL SURVEY BULL. 79, P. 84.

  • Deposit

    GOELTZ, N.S., AND OTHERS, COMPILERS, 1970, A DIRECTORY OF THE MINING INDUSTRY OF UTAH, 1967: UTAH GEOL. AND MINERAL SURVEY BULL. 84 P. 33.

  • Deposit

    ARNOLD, D.E., 1956, GEOLOGY OF THE NORTHERN STANSBURY RANGE, TOOELE COUNTY, UTAH: M.S. THESIS, UNIV. OF UTAH, 57P.

  • Deposit

    RIGBY, J.K., 1958, GEOLOGY OF THE STANSBURY MOUNTAINS, TOOELE COUNTY, UTAH: GUIDEBOOK TO THE GEOLOGY OF UTAH NO. 13, UTAH GEOL. SOCIETY, 175P.

  • Production

    MESSENGER, H.M. III, 1980, ON-SITE INVESTIGATION; UTAH GEOL. AND MINERAL SURVEY.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit MUCH OF THE GREAT BLUE LIMESTONE OUTCROP BAND FROM FLUX TO MAGPIE CANYON MAY BE REASONABLY ACCESSIBLE FOR QUARRYING. THE PREVIOUS RECORD NOS. (B10) FOR THESE QUARRIES, BEFORE DC12112, ARE DC12108, DC12107 ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT; 2 UNPUB REPT

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-OCT-1980 Unknown U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-OCT-1994 Messenger, Harold M. III U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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