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Great Blue Prospect No. 2

Past Producer in Tooele county in Utah, United States with commodity Limestone, General
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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. Geologic structures
  11. Ore body information
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Land status
  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 10087506
MRDS ID D007585
Record type Site
Current site name Great Blue Prospect No. 2

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.18691, 40.14077 (WGS84)
Elevation 1664
Relative position 9300 FT. SE. OF TOPLIFF

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Tooele(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Fivemile Pass(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Rush Valley(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)

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 008S 003W 09 NE OF SE OF NW Utah

Comments on the location information

  • LOCATION GIVEN IS A REPRESENTATIVE POINT, UNSURVEYED

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Limestone, General Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Calcite Ore

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) -112.18691, 40.14077
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Uinta Extension

Ore body information

  • General form BEDDED

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Greeley District

Land status

Ownership category Private

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Area 0.056HA
    Overall length 27M
    Overall width 22.86M

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    PROCTOR, P.D., 1959. GEOL. OF THE SOUTHERN OQUIRRH MTNS.: UTAH GEOL. SOC. GUIDEBOOK 14.

  • Deposit

    DISBROW, A.E., 1957. PRELIM. GEOL. MAP OF THE FIVEMILE PASS QUAD.: U.S.G.S. MAP MF-131.

  • Deposit

    MINOBRAS, 1974. INDUSTRIAL MIN. OF UTAH.

  • Deposit

    TRIPP, B.T., 1981. ON SITE INVESTIGATION: UTAH GEOL. AND MIN. SURV.

  • Deposit

    1957 GEOLMAP DISBROW, A.E. MAP MF-13

  • Production

    TRIPP, B.T., 1981. ON SITE INVESTIGATION: UTAH GEOL. AND MIN. SURV.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit UNDERLIES ENTIRE QUADRANGLE; SEVERAL HORIZONS OF BRINE ARE EXPECTED.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-FEB-1981 Tripp, Bryce T. Bureau of Land Management

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