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Gold Hill 4nw Subsurface Brines

Occurrence 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. Host and associated rocks
  8. Nearby scientific data
  9. Controls for ore emplacement
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Mining district
  12. Land status
  13. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. General comments
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10088971
MRDS ID RE00145
Record type Site
Current site name Gold Hill 4nw Subsurface Brines

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -113.6814, 40.19687 (WGS84)
Elevation 1292

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Tooele(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Gold Hill Wash(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Wildcat Mountain(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

DOD(Federal land areas administered by DOD)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Utah Tooele

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 007S 16W 20 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • LOCATION GIVEN IS A REPRESENTATIVE POINT, UNSURVEYED ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1976)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Bromine Primary

Analytical data

Result AVERAGE DISSOLVED SOLIDS CONTENT: CL - 192,000 PPM, K - 10,600 PPM, MG - 6,300 PPM, SO4 - 5200 PPM

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Unconsolidated Deposit > Silt
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Holocene

Nearby scientific data

(1) -113.6814, 40.19687
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Economic information

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Thin, Horizontal, Permeable 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 Desert Area

Land status

Ownership category Military Reservation

Comments on the workings information

  • NO WORKINGS

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • 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, HYDROGEOLOGIC RECONNAISSANCE OF THE NORTH GREAT SALT LAKE DESERT: UTAH DEPT. OF NAT. RES., DIV. OF WATER RIGHTS, TECH. PUB. 4.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit UNDERLIES MUCH OF QUADRANGLE, SEVERAL HORIZONS OF BRINE TO BE EXPECTED

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-SEP-1980 Tripp, Bryce T. Utah Geological and Mineral Survey

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

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