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Powder Knoll Prospects

Past Producer in Tooele county in Utah, United States with commodities Limestone, General, 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. Host and associated rocks
  8. Nearby scientific data
  9. Geologic structures
  10. Ore body information
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mining district
  13. Land status
  14. Workings at the site
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10087505
MRDS ID D007582
Record type Site
Current site name Powder Knoll Prospects

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.1733, 40.14994 (WGS84)
Elevation 1619
Relative position 11,500 FT. E. 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)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Utah Tooele
United States Utah Utah

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 008S 003W 03 NE OF NW OF SW Utah

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Limestone, General Primary
Clay Tertiary

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone
    Rock unit name Great Blue Formation
    Rock description Great Blue Formation
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Mississippian
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Mississippian

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.1733, 40.14994
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Tooele Arch

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR
    Strike N 30 W
    Dip 20 NE

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

Comments on the production information

  • PRODUCTION OF LIMESTONE BUT NO PRODUCTION OF CLAY, NO PRODUCTION FIGURES AVAILABLE

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • NO FIGURES AVAILABLE

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface
    Area 0.241HA
    Overall length 144M
    Overall width 18.29M

Comments on the workings information

  • CONSISTS OF THREE PITS, NORTH AND MIDDLE PIT IN LIMESTONE AND SOUTH PIT IN CLAY IN ALLUVIUM

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

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

  • Deposit

    DISBROW, A.E., 1981. PRELIM. GEOL. MAP OF THE FIVEMILE PASS QUAD.: U.S.G.S. MAP MF-131.

  • Deposit

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

  • Deposit

    1957 GEOLMAP DISBROW, A.E. MF-13

Reporter information

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

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