Lakeside Evaporator Pond

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. 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 10090987
MRDS ID DB01636
Record type Site
Current site name Lakeside Evaporator Pond
Related records 10275939

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.88416, 41.2241 (WGS84)
Elevation 1282
Relative position WEST OF LAKESIDE QUARRY

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Box Elder(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Strongs Knob(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Promontory Point(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 009W 21 Utah

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Bromine Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Brine Ore

Analytical data

Result CL = 150,000 PPM
Result MG = 9,700 PPM
Result NA = 85,700 PPM
Result K = 7,000 PPM
Result SO4 = 18,000 PPM

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.88416, 41.2241

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Fault Graben Evaporative Basin

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR

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

Land status

Ownership category State

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • BRINE PUMPED TO EVAPORATING BASINS FROM A POINT IN THE GREAT SALT LAKE REPORTED ON THE LAKESIDE QUADRANGLE. NO PRODUCTION HAS OCCURRED TO THE PRESENT TIME.

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface
    Area 1295HA
    Overall length 6034.88M
    Overall width 3218.6M

Comments on the workings information

  • WATER HAS BEEN PUMPED IN, NOTHING HAS YET BEEN HARVESTED

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Analytical Data

    SRC.REF: UGMS QUARTERLY SAMPLING, 1978

  • Deposit

    UGMS QUARTERLY SAMPLING, 1978 .

  • Deposit

    WADDELL, K. M., AND FIELDS, F. K., 1977 , MODEL FOR EVALUATING THE EFFECTS OF DIKES ON THE WATER AND SALT BALANCE OF GREAT SALT LAKE: UTAH GEOL. AND MINERAL SURVEY BULL. 21 .

  • Deposit

    EARDLEY, A. I., 1962 , GLAUBER'S SALT BED WEST OF PROMONTORY POINT GREAT SALT LAKE: UTAH GEOLOGICAL AND MINERAL SURVEY SPECIAL STUDIES NO. 1 .

  • Deposit

    1977 RECON UGMS WATER RESOURCES BULLETI

  • Reserve-Resource

    DOELLING, H. H., 1979 , UTAH GEOL. AND MINERALOG. SURVEY ON-SITE INVESTIGATION

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit DEPOSIT IS PUMPED IN FROM GREAT SALT LAKE, NORTH ARM

Reporter information

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

Beyond USGS

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