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Occurrence in Tooele county in Utah, United States with commodity Gypsum-Anhydrite
Sections on this page
  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. Ore body information
  10. Controls for ore emplacement
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10020507
MRDS ID DC13458
Record type Site
Current site name Unnamed

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -113.28445, 40.71771 (WGS84)
Elevation 1295
Relative position GREAT SALT LAKE DESERT, NEAR 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

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 001S 013W 13,14,23,24 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • UNSURVEYED TOWNSHIP

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gypsum-Anhydrite Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Gypsum Ore

Analytical data

Result VERY PURE

Nearby scientific data

(1) -113.28445, 40.71771

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form DUNE FIELD OF GYPSUM CRYSTALS AND OOLITES
    Depth to top 9.14M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Fault

Comments on the geologic information

  • MOSTLY CRYSTALS, OOLITES, SOME FINE QUARTZ GRAINS, SHELL FRAGMENTS ; GEOL.DESC: ON MT. HOME FAULT

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Non-metallic
Significant No

Reference information

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUN-1974 Unknown Conservation Division, USGS (no longer exists)

Beyond USGS

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