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Salduro Salt Deposits

Occurrence in Tooele county in Utah, United States with commodities Halite, Potassium
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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. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. General comments
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10041758
MRDS ID M057520
Record type Deposit
Current site name Salduro Salt Deposits
Alternate or previous names Salduro Salt Marsh

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -113.89333, 40.72111 (WGS84)
Relative position HIGHWAY 80 , JUST E OF NEV. BORDER

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
001S 018W Utah

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Halite Tertiary
Potassium Tertiary

Comments on the commodity information

  • POTASSIUM ABSORBED ON CLAY, SO POOR ECONOMIC POTENTIAL

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Gypsum Gangue

Analytical data

Result FOR INFORMATION ON ANALYSES OF SAMPLES, LOOK INTO THE TOOELE TWO DEGREE SHEET FILE.

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Chemical Sediment > Salt

Nearby scientific data

(1) -113.89333, 40.72111
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form BEDDED
    Thickness 1.52M
    Width 12874.4M
    Depth to top 0M
    Depth to bottom 1.52M

Comments on the geologic information

  • GEOL.DESC: SALT CRUST, UNDERLAIN BY SMOOTH, WHITE CLAY, BOTH WITH BRINE

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Non-metallic
Significant No

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    GALE, H. S., 1916 , POTASH IN SALDURO SALT DEPOSIT: ENG. & MIN. JOUR., VOL. 102 , NO. 18 , P. 780 - 782

  • Deposit

    Stockett, A.W., 1918, The Potash Situation: U.S. Bureau of Mines War Minerals Investigations No. 2, 13 p.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit MORE THAN 100 SQ. MI.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 1978-08-01 Wong, George (Tooker, Ed) U.S. Geological Survey
Editor 2013-01-03 Wilson, Anna B U.S. Geological Survey added reference. changed from site to deposit.

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