Camp Floyd Clay Pits

Producer in Tooele county in Utah, United States with commodity Clay
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. Materials information
  8. Nearby scientific data
  9. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  10. Mining district
  11. Links to other databases
  12. Bibliographic references
  13. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10108552
MRDS ID DC12256
Record type Site
Current site name Camp Floyd Clay Pits

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.21302, 40.313 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Tooele(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Mercur(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)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Utah Tooele

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 006S 004W Utah

Comments on the location information

  • EST.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Clay Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Clay Ore

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Non-metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Camp Floyd (Mercur)

Comments on the production information

  • 5000 TO 50000 TONS IN 1964

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    GARVIN,R.F. & KAYSER,R.B., 1966, A DIRECTORY OF THE MINING INDUSTRY OF UTAH: UTAH GEOL. & MIN. SURV., BULL. 79

  • Deposit

    CONSV. COMP. DATE, 06-17-1971

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-NOV-1985 Unknown Conservation Division, USGS (no longer exists)

Beyond USGS

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