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Subsurface Brines

Producer in Tooele 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. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Ore body information
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mining district
  13. Land status
  14. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10087451
MRDS ID D007389
Record type Site
Current site name Subsurface Brines

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -111.97662, 40.57188 (WGS84)
Elevation 1288

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Salt Lake(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Midvale(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Salt Lake City(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Salt Lake City(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Jordan(hydrologic unit)

Jordan(hydrologic accounting unit)

Great Salt Lake(hydrologic subregion)

Great Basin(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Military Reservation(land status)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Utah Tooele

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 003S 01W 08 SW OF NE OF SE Utah

Comments on the location information

  • LOCATION GIVEN IS REPRESENTATIVE POINT; LATITUDE-LONGITUDE VALUES CALCULATED FROM TOWNSHIP, RANGE, SECTION.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Bromine Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Carnallite Ore
Halite Ore
Sylvite Ore

Analytical data

Result ANALYSIS OF BRINE IN WEIGHT PERCENT = KCL, .8-1.2, NACL, 18-24, MGCL2, .9-1.2, MGSO4, .1-.3, CASO4, .2-.4, LICL, .02-.04

Host and associated rocks

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

Nearby scientific data

(1) -111.97662, 40.57188
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR
    Thickness 6.1M
    Depth to top 0M
    Depth to bottom 6.1M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Non-metallic
Deposit size Large
Significant No
Discovery year 1914
Discoverer H.S. Gale
Year of first production 1917

Mining district

District name Salt Flats

Land status

Ownership category Military Reservation

Comments on the production information

  • PRODUCTION FIGURES APPLY ONLY TO BONNEVILLE LTD. PRODUCTION

Comments on the workings information

  • THE ONLY POTASH PLANT ACTIVE ON THE SALT FLATS IS BONNEVILLE LTD.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

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

  • Deposit

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

  • Deposit

    BINGHAM, C.P., 1980. SOLAR PRODUCTION OF POTASH FROM THE BRINES OF THE BONNEVILLE SALT FLATS IN THE GREAT SALT LAKE: UTAH GEOL. AND MINER. SURV. BULL. 116.

  • Deposit

    1914 DIREXPL GALE, H.S. BULL. 540

  • Deposit

    1927 DIREXPL NOLAN, F.B. BULL. 795

  • Production

    BINGHAM, C.P., 1980. SOLAR PROD. OF POTASH..., IN GREAT SALT LAKE: UTAH GEOL. AND MIN. SUR. BULL. 116.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-FEB-1981 Tripp, Bryce T. Bureau of Land Management

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