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Lake Ridge Brine

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. 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 10087158
MRDS ID D005331
Record type Site
Current site name Lake Ridge Brine
Related records 10153975

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.73666, 41.68603 (WGS84)
Elevation 1283
Relative position BETWEEN LAKE RIDGE AND MONUMENT POINT

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Box Elder(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Lake Ridge(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Tremonton(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Brigham City(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Curlew Valley(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 011N 008W 15 Utah

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Bromine Tertiary

Analytical data

Result AVE DISSOLVED SOLID CONTENT: CL = 110000 PPM
Result K = 8800 PPM
Result MG = 1800 PPM, SO4 = 4700 PPM

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Unconsolidated Deposit > Clay, Mud
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Holocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Holocene
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Unconsolidated Deposit > Silt
    Rock unit name Lake Bonneville Formation
    Rock description Lake Bonneville Formation
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Unconsolidated Deposit > Sand and Gravel

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.73666, 41.68603
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR TO IRREGULAR

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Thin Horizontal Zones In Sediments

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Non-metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Salt Wells

Land status

Ownership category Private

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Analytical Data

    SRC.REF: STURM, 1979, UNPUB. DATA

  • Deposit

    1927 RECON NOLAN, BULL. 79

  • Reserve-Resource

    NOLAN, 1927 AND STEPHENS, 1974

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit UNDERLIES A LARGE PORTION OF THE WESTERN HALF OF THE QUAD.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-APR-1979 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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