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Gunnison Island Sw, Great Salt Lake North Arm

Occurrence in Box Elder county in Utah, United States with commodity Bromine
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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. Nearby scientific data
  8. Geologic structures
  9. Ore body information
  10. Controls for ore emplacement
  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. General comments
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10011100
MRDS ID D005323
Record type Site
Current site name Gunnison Island Sw, Great Salt Lake North Arm

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.88611, 41.35131 (WGS84)
Elevation 1280
Relative position NO PROMINENT LOCATIONS, LOCATED WITHIN THE LAKE

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Box Elder(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Gunnison Island SW(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Promontory Point(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Brigham City(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Great Salt Lake(hydrologic unit)

Great Salt Lake(hydrologic accounting unit)

Great Salt Lake(hydrologic subregion)

Great Basin(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

ST(Federal land areas administered by ST)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Utah Box Elder

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake Utah

Comments on the location information

  • LOCATION IS REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSIT THAT UNDERLIES THAT QUAD AT ELEVATION LESS THAN 4200 FT.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Bromine Tertiary

Analytical data

Result AVG. DISSOLVED SOLID CONTENT: CL = 150000 PPM
Result MG = 9700 PPM
Result NA = 85700 PPM
Result K = 7000 PPM
Result SO4 = 18000 PPM. CONCENTRATION SET AT 4200 FT. LAKE LEVEL.

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.88611, 41.35131
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Fault Graben Evaporative Basin

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR
    Thickness 2.29M
    Length 10621.38M
    Width 10621.38M
    Depth to top 0M
    Depth to bottom 2.29M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Volume Of Great Salt Lake

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Non-metallic
Deposit size Large
Significant No

Mining district

District name Great Salt Lake North Arm

Land status

Ownership category State

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner State Of Utah
    Home office Utah

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • AMOUNT REFERS TO TONS OF DISSOLVED SOLIDS CONTAINED IN THE QUADRANGLE

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Analytical Data

    SRC.REF: UGMS QUARTERLY SAMPLING, 1978

  • Deposit

    UNPUBLISHED DATA, UTAH GEOLOGICAL AND MINERAL SURVEY QUARTERLY SAMPLING, OCTOBER 1978.

  • Deposit

    WADDELL, K.M., AND FIELDS, F.K., 1977, MODEL FOR EVALUATING THE EFFECTS OF DIKES ON THE BALANCE OF GREAT SALT LAKE, UTAH: UT. GEOL. & MIN. SURVEY, WATER RESOURCE BULLETIN 21.

  • Deposit

    1977 RECON UGMS WATER RESOURCE BULL

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit CONCENTRATION SET AT 4200 FT. LAKE LEVEL

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAY-1979 Wilberg, Dale E. Bureau of Land Management

Beyond USGS

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

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