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Big Canyon Aragonite

Producer in Tooele county in Utah, United States with commodity Calcium
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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. Geologic structures
  11. Ore body information
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Land status
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. General comments
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10012232
MRDS ID D007736
Record type Site
Current site name Big Canyon Aragonite

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -113.02694, 40.92187 (WGS84)
Elevation 1561
Relative position E. SIDE OF RANGE, 1 1/2 MILES N. OF COBBLE HILL

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Tooele(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Grassy Mountains(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Bonneville Salt Flats(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)

Federal lands

Bureau of Land Management(Bureau of Land Management UT)

Bureau of Land Management UT BLM(Type of land area)

BLM(Federal land areas administered by BLM)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Utah Tooele

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 002N 010W 07 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • SECTION SUBDIVISIONS SWNW AND NWSE

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Calcium Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Aragonite Ore
Calcite Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone
    Rock unit name Oquirrh Formation, Unit 1
    Rock description Oquirrh Formation, Unit 1
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pennsylvanian
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pennsylvanian

Nearby scientific data

(1) -113.02694, 40.92187
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Along Thrust? Fault

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR
    Depth to top 0M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Non-metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Grassy Mountains

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Comments on the production information

  • PRODUCTION FIGURES NOT AVAILABLE

Comments on the workings information

  • DIMENSIONS OF WORKED AREA UNKNOWN, BUT KNOWN TO BE SMALL.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    DOELLING, 1964, GEOLOGY OF THE NORTHERN LAKESIDE MTNS., AND GRASSY MTNS., TOOELE AND BOX ELDER COS., UTAH: UNIV. OF UTAH PH.D. THESIS.

  • Deposit

    DOELLING, H.H., 1964, 1980, ON SITE INVESTIGATION: UTAH GEOL. AND MINERAL SURVEY.

  • Deposit

    1964 GEOLMAP UNIV. OF UTAH PH.D. THESI

  • Production

    DOELLING, H.H., 1980, ON SITE INVESTIGATION: UTAH GEOL. AND MIN. SURVEY

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit VARIETY OF COLORS; WHITE, PINK, BROWN, LAVENDER, AND RED ACICULAR CALCITE & ARAGONITE

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-SEP-1980 Doelling, Hellmut H. Bureau of Land Management

Beyond USGS

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

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