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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. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10098086
MRDS ID DC15283
Record type Site
Current site name Unnamed

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.17552, 40.14772 (WGS84)
Relative position NEAR TOPLIFF HILL

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 09,10,03 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • TWO QUARRIES ABOUT A MILE APART

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Limestone, General Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Limestone Ore

Analytical data

Result 51.89 % CAO, 3.81 % SIO2, 1.01 % MGO, .85 % AL2O3

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Mississippian

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Topliff-Broad Canyon Anticline

Ore body information

  • General form BEDDED
    Strike N - W
    Dip 20W-37NE
    Thickness 1.83M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Non-metallic
Significant No

Comments on the production information

  • ESTIMATED 4 MILLION TONS PRODUCED BEFORE 1959

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    PROCTOR,P.D., 1959, ECONOMIC GEOLOGY: UTAH GEOLOGY SOCIETY GUIDEBOOK NO. 14.

  • Deposit

    CONSV. COMP. DATE, 03-28-1958

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUN-1979 Unknown Conservation Division, USGS (no longer exists)

Beyond USGS

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

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