Capell Salt Co.

Occurrence in Tooele county in Utah, United States with commodity Halite
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. Ore body information
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Mining district
  12. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. General comments
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10020508
MRDS ID DC13465
Record type Site
Current site name Capell Salt Co.

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -113.88974, 40.73214 (WGS84)
Relative position SALT BEDS NEAR WENDOVER, UTAH

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Tooele(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Silsbee(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Bonneville Salt Flats(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)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Utah Tooele

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 001S 018W 25 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • EST.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Halite Primary

Analytical data

Result 1916- 90 % NACL

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Lake Sediments

Nearby scientific data

(1) -113.88974, 40.73214

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form SALT BEDS
    Dip 0
    Depth to top 0M

Comments on the geologic information

  • HR.AGE.MV: PEGMATITE

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Non-metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Bonneville Salt Flats

Comments on the production information

  • PRODUCTION FOR A FEW YEARS AROUND 1916.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    NOLAN,T.B., 1927, POTASH BRINES IN THE GREAT SALT LAKE DESERT: USGS BULL. 795, P. 25-44.

  • Deposit

    ANON., 1916, CAPELL SALT (NEWS NOTE): ENG. & MINING JOUR., VOL. 102, NO. 18, P. 886.

  • Deposit

    CONSV. DIV. COMP. DATE, 03-28-1958

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit PROSPECT

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUN-1974 Unknown Conservation Division, USGS (no longer exists)

Beyond USGS

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