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Great Blue Prospect No. 3

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

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10087507
MRDS ID D007587
Record type Site
Current site name Great Blue Prospect No. 3

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.18191, 40.14411 (WGS84)
Elevation 1654
Relative position 9700 FT. SE OF TOPLIFF

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Tooele(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Fivemile Pass(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Rush Valley(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Tooele(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Rush-Tooele Valleys(hydrologic unit)

Great Salt Lake(hydrologic accounting unit)

Great Salt Lake(hydrologic subregion)

Great Basin(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Utah Tooele

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 008S 003W 09 NE OF NW OF NE Utah

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Limestone, General Primary

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone
    Rock unit name Great Blue Limestone
    Rock description Great Blue Limestone
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Mississippian
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Mississippian

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Tooele Arch

Ore body information

  • General form BEDDED
    Strike N 50 W
    Dip 35 NE

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Greeley District

Land status

Ownership category Private

Comments on the production information

  • NO PROD. FIGURES AVAILABLE

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface
    Area 0.075HA
    Overall length 50M
    Overall width 16.46M

Comments on the workings information

  • ONE OPEN CUT

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    DISBROW, A.E., 1957. PRELIM. GEOL. MAP OF THE FIVEMILE PASS QUAD.: U.S.G.S. MAP MF-131.

  • Deposit

    PROCTOR, P.D., 1959, GEOL. OF THE SOUTH OQUIRRH MTN. AND FIVEMILE PASS: UTAH GEOL. SOC. GUIDEBOOK NO. 14.

  • Deposit

    MINOBRAS, 1974. INDUSTRIAL MIN. OF UTAH.

  • Deposit

    TRIPP, B.T., 1981. ON SITE INVESTIGATION: UTAH GEOL. AND MIN. SURV.

  • Deposit

    1957 GEOLMAP DISBROW, A.E. MF-13

  • Production

    TRIPP, B.T., 1981, ON SITE INVESTIGATION: UTAH GEOL. AND MIN. SURV.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit BLACK FOSSILIFEROUS LIMESTONE, THICK BEDDED WITH THIN, SPARSE CHERT LAYERS ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT; 3 FIELD OBSERV

Reporter information

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

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