Hogup Ridge North Brine

Occurrence in Box Elder county in Utah, United States with commodity Bromine
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. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Ore body information
  11. Controls for ore emplacement
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Land status
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. General comments
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10088345
MRDS ID DB01775
Record type Site
Current site name Hogup Ridge North Brine
Related records 10226970

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -113.05723, 41.27686 (WGS84)
Elevation 1282
Relative position BETWEEN HOGUP RIDGE AND GREAT SALT LAKE

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Box Elder(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Hogup Ridge North(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Newfoundland Mountains(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Brigham City(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Northern Great Salt Lake Desert(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 011W 01 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • DEPOSIT UNDERLIES ENTIRE QUADRANGLE, LOCATION GIVEN, IS A REPRESENTATIVE POINT.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Bromine Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Brine Ore

Analytical data

Result AVG. DISSOLVED SOLID CONTENT: CL = 110,000 PPM
Result K = 8800 PPM
Result MG = 1800 PPM
Result 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) -113.05723, 41.27686

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
Deposit size Large
Significant No

Mining district

District name Great Salt Lake

Land status

Ownership category Private

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Analytical Data

    SRC.REF: STURM, 1979 , UGMS RESEARCH GEOLOGIST, ORAL COMM.

  • Deposit

    NOLAN, T. B., 1927 , POTASH BRINES IN THE GREAT SALT LAKE DESERT, UTAH: USGS BULL. 795 , P. 25 - 44 .

  • Deposit

    STEPHENS, J. C., 1974 , HYDROLOGIC RECONNAISSANCE OF THE NORTH GREAT SALT LAKE DESERT: UT. DEPT. OF NATURAL RESOURCES, DIV. OF WATER RIGHTS, TECH. PUBL. 42 .

  • Deposit

    DOELLING, H. H., IN PREP., GEOLOGY AND MINERAL RESOURCES OF BOX ELDER CO., UTAH: UTAH GEOL. AND MINERALOG., SURVEY BULL.

  • Deposit

    STURM, PAUL, 1979 , UGMS, RESEARCH GEOL.: ORAL COMM. OF UNPUBL. DATA.

  • Deposit

    1927 RECON NOLAN, BULL. 795

  • Deposit

    1979 COMPILE UGMS, UNPUBLISHED DATA

  • Reserve-Resource

    NOLAN, T. B., 1927 , STEPHENS, J. C., 1974 , UTAH DEPT. NATURAL RESOURCES TECH. PUBL. 42 USGS BULL. 795 .

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit UNDERLIES PORTION OF QUADRANGLE. SEVERAL HORIZONS OF BRINE TO BE EXPECTED.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAY-1979 Doelling, Hellmut H. Bureau of Land Management

Beyond USGS

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