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Rowley Plant

Producer in Tooele county in Utah, United States with commodities Magnesite, Clay
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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. Mining district
  13. Land status
  14. Ownership information
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10012214
MRDS ID D007694
Record type Site
Current site name Rowley Plant
Alternate or previous names National Lead Plant, Amax Plant

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.73332, 40.91437 (WGS84)
Elevation 1286
Relative position 14,400 FT. NE OF TABLE MOUNTAIN

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Tooele(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Badger Island NW(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Tooele(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Tooele(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Northern 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 002N 008W 10 SW OF SW OF SE Utah

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Magnesite Primary
Clay Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Brine Ore

Analytical data

Result CONCENTRATED BRINE FEED TO PLANT AVERAGES 7.5 TO 8.5 PERCENT MAGNESIUM CHLORIDE

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Unconsolidated Deposit > Brine
    Rock unit name Brine
    Rock description Brine
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Holocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Holocene

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.73332, 40.91437
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form LIQUID

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Both
Deposit size Large
Significant No
Year of first production 1972

Mining district

District name Great Salt Lake Desert

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Amax Inc.

Comments on the workings information

  • BRINE EXTRACTED FROM GREAT SALT LAKE

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    NATIONAL LEAD, 1979, SOLICITS BUYERS FOR RAWLEY PLANTS: TOOELE TRANSCRIPT

  • Production

    1979, N.L. SOLICITS BUYERS FOR ROWLEY PLANT: TOOELE TRANSCRIPT.

  • Reserve-Resource

    GWYNN, J.W., 1980. THE GREAT SALT LAKE: UTAH GEOL. AND MIN. SUR. BULL. 116.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-DEC-1980 Tripp, Bryce T. Bureau of Land Management

Beyond USGS

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

Operator history (post-MRDS)

MRDS records operators as of each record's last update (≤ 2019). Some of the operators listed here have since changed hands or dissolved:

  • Amax Inc. — now part of Subsidiary of Freeport-McMoRan (2007)
    Merged with Cyprus Minerals to form Cyprus Amax in 1993; Cyprus Amax → Phelps Dodge (1999) → Freeport-McMoRan (2007).

Curated by qvyshift.com from publicly-reported M&A activity (SEC filings, press releases, USGS Mineral Yearbooks). Not authoritative — verify against primary sources before relying on it. The MSHA panel above is the current authoritative source for actively-permitted mines.

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