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Grassy Mtns. Gravel

Occurrence in Tooele county in Utah, United States with commodity Sand and Gravel, Construction
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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. 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 10090886
MRDS ID D007734
Record type Site
Current site name Grassy Mtns. Gravel

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -113.11027, 40.92882 (WGS84)
Elevation 1458
Relative position ON FINGER RIDGE, 1 1/2 MILES N OF BYRAM WELL

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Tooele(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Grassy Mountains(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Bonneville Salt Flats(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Tooele(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

Bureau of Land Management(Bureau of Land Management UT)

Bureau of Land Management UT BLM(Type of land area)

BLM(Federal land areas administered by BLM)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Utah Tooele

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 002N 011W 05,04,06,07,08,09 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • ALSO SECS. 16, 17, 21-28; SECS. 15-17, 13, 20-22, 24, 25, & 36, T3N, R11W; SECS. 18, 19, 30-32, T3N, R10W; ALL SECS. IN T2N, R10W (PARTS OF ALL LISTED SECTIONS)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Sand and Gravel, Construction Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chert Ore
Sandstone Ore

Host and associated rocks

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

Nearby scientific data

(1) -113.11027, 40.92882
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR TO WEDGE
    Thickness 60.96M
    Length 13679.05M
    Width 3218.6M
    Depth to top 0M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Flanks Of Mountain Range

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Grassy Mtns.

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Comments on the workings information

  • NO WORKINGS

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    DOELLING, H.H., 1964, GEOLOGY OF THE NORTHERN LAKESIDE MTNS. AND GRASSY MTNS, TOOELE AND BOX ELDER COS., UTAH: UNIV OF UTAH PH.D THESIS

  • Deposit

    DOELLING, H.H., 1980, ON SITE INVESTIGATION: UTAH GEOL. AND MIN. SURVEY.

  • Deposit

    1964 GEOLMAP UNIV. OF UTAH PH.D. THESI

  • Production

    DOELLING, H.H., 1980, ON SITE INVESTIGATION: UTAH GEOL. AND MIN. SURVEY

  • Reserve-Resource

    DOELLING, H., 1980, ON SITE INVESTIGATION: UTAH GEOL. AND MIN. SURVEY

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit ROUNDED TO SUBANGULAR, BOTH EQUANT AND ELONGATE CLASTS

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-SEP-1980 Doelling, Hellmut H. Bureau of Land Management

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