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Great Salt Lake Minerals

Past Producer 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. Materials information
  8. Nearby scientific data
  9. Geologic structures
  10. Ore body information
  11. Controls for ore emplacement
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Land status
  15. Ownership information
  16. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. General comments
  19. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10015648
MRDS ID DB01711
Record type Site
Current site name Great Salt Lake Minerals
Related records 10153894

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.49971, 41.21687 (WGS84)
Elevation 1280
Relative position IMMEDIATELY NORTH OF THE CAUSEWAY

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Box Elder(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Promontory Point(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 006N 006W 26 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • DEPOSIT LOCATION DESCRIBES THE PUMPING LOCATION FOR THE SOLUBLE BRINE COMMODITY.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Bromine Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • ARCANITE, HALITE, THENARDITE: PRINCIPAL PRODUCTS

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Brine Ore

Analytical data

Result TOTAL DISSOLVED SOLIDS PUMPED PER ANNUM: K = 184,166 TONS
Result NA = 2,600,131 TONS
Result MG = 264,368 TONS
Result CL = 3,240,412 TONS
Result SO4 = 501,674 TONS.

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.49971, 41.21687
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Fault Graber Evaporative Basin

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Great Salt Lake

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Non-metallic
Deposit size Large
Significant No
Year of first production 1971

Mining district

District name Great Salt Lake North Arm

Land status

Ownership category State

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Great Salt Lake Minerals
  • Type Owner
    Owner State Of Utah
    Home office Utah

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • TOTAL LAKE CONTAINS 2.2 BILLION SHORT TONS OF DISSOLVED SOLIDS NORTH OF THE CAUSEWAY.

Comments on the workings information

  • SOLUBLE PRODUCT IS PUMPED FROM A POINT 10 FEET BELOW THE GENERAL LAKE SURFACE.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Analytical Data

    SRC.REF: STURM, RESEARCH GEOLOGIST, UGMS, UNPUBLISHED DATA

  • Deposit

    STURM, P. A., 1979 , UTAH GEOL. AND MINERALOG. SURVEY ON-SITE INVESTIGATION

  • Production

    STURM, P. A., 1978 , UTAH GEOL. AND MINERALOG. SURVEY UNPUBLISHED DATA.

  • Reserve-Resource

    STURM, P. A., 1979 , UTAH GEOL. AND MINERALOG. SURVEY ON-SITE INVESTIGATION.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit SOLUBLE PRODUCT IS PUMPED FROM THE DEPOSIT LOCATION TO SOLAR EVAPORATING PONDS LOCATED ON THE PLAIN CITY SW AND WILLARD SPUR QUADRANGLES.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUN-1979 Sturm, Paul A. Bureau of Land Management

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