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Occurrence in Salt Lake county in Utah, United States with commodities Mercury, Lead
Sections on this page
  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Materials information
  7. Nearby scientific data
  8. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  9. Mining district
  10. Links to other databases
  11. Bibliographic references
  12. General comments
  13. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10092579
MRDS ID M055167
Record type Site
Current site name Unknown

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Centroid
Geographic coordinates: -111.91839, 40.66612 (WGS84)
Relative position Original record had no coordinates, so this was plotted to the middle of the state/county area.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Salt Lake(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Salt Lake City South(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Salt Lake City(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Salt Lake City(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Jordan(hydrologic unit)

Jordan(hydrologic accounting unit)

Great Salt Lake(hydrologic subregion)

Great Basin(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Utah Salt Lake

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Mercury Tertiary
Lead Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Cinnabar Ore
Mercury Ore

Nearby scientific data

Centroid (1) -111.91839, 40.66612

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Bingham

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    U.S. 88TH CONGR. 2ND SESS., 1964, COMM. INTERIOR AND INSULAR AFFAIRS, COMM. PRINT 26-976

  • Deposit

    BAILEY, E.H., USGS, PERSONAL FILES

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit CINNABAR AND NATIVE MERCURY WERE FOUND LOCALLY IN LEAD ORES ; INFO.SRC : BAILEY E H

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUL-73 Bergquist, Joel R. U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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