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Knolls Sand Dunes

Occurrence in Tooele county in Utah, United States with commodity Silica
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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. Ore body information
  10. Controls for ore emplacement
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mining district
  13. Land status
  14. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. General comments
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10012070
MRDS ID D007432
Record type Site
Current site name Knolls Sand Dunes

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -113.25222, 40.63576 (WGS84)
Elevation 1303
Relative position 6 1/4 MILES SSE OF KNOLLS

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Tooele(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Knolls(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Bonneville Salt Flats(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Tooele(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Southern Great Salt Lake Desert(hydrologic unit)

Great Salt Lake(hydrologic accounting unit)

Great Salt Lake(hydrologic subregion)

Great Basin(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

DOD(Federal land areas administered by DOD)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Utah Tooele

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 002S 012W 19 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • LOCATION GIVEN IS A REPRESENTATIVE POINT UNSURVEYED

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Silica Primary

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Unconsolidated Deposit > Sand and Gravel
    Rock unit name Sand Dunes
    Rock description Sand Dunes
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Holocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Holocene

Nearby scientific data

(1) -113.25222, 40.63576
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR-BLANKET
    Thickness 6.1M
    Length 2413.95M
    Width 1609.3M
    Depth to top 0M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • West Edge Of Desert

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Great Salt Lake Desert

Land status

Ownership category Military Reservation

Comments on the workings information

  • NO WORKINGS

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    STEPHENS, J.C., 1974, HYDROGEOLOGIC RECONNAISSANCE OF THE NORTH GREAT SALT LAKE DESERT: UT. DEPT. OF NATURAL RESOURCES, TECH. PUBL., 4.

  • Deposit

    NOLAN, T.B., 1927, POTASH BRINES IN THE GREAT SALT LAKE DESERT, UTAH: U.S.G.S. BULL. 795, P. 25-44.

  • Production

    STEPHENS, J.C., 1974, UT. DEPT. OF NATURAL RESOURCES, TECH. PUBL. 4.

  • Reserve-Resource

    TRIPP, B.T., 1980, ON SITE INVESTIGATION: UTAH GEOL. AND MIN. SURV.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit SCATTERED SAND DUNES

Reporter information

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

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

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