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Great Salt Lake North Arm

Prospect in Box Elder 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. Materials information
  8. Nearby scientific data
  9. Geologic structures
  10. Ore body information
  11. Controls for ore emplacement
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Land status
  15. Ownership information
  16. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. General comments
  19. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10096898
MRDS ID DB01963
Record type Site
Current site name Great Salt Lake North Arm
Related records 10275943

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.70916, 41.2916 (WGS84)
Elevation 1280
Relative position LOCATED ON THE LAT./LONG. CONTROL MARK

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Box Elder(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Rozel Point SW(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Promontory Point(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Brigham City(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Great Salt Lake(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 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • LOCATION IS A REPRESENTATIVE POINT FOR THE AREA ON THE QUADRANGLE BELOW 4200'

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Bromine Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Brine Ore

Analytical data

Result AV. DISSOLVED SOLID CONTENT: 150,000 PPM = CL
Result 9700 PPM = MG
Result 85,700 PPM = K
Result 18,000 PPM = SO4 . CONC. SET AT 4200' LAKE LEVEL

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.70916, 41.2916
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Fault Graben Evaporative Basin

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR
    Thickness 9.75M
    Length 10621.38M
    Width 10621.38M
    Depth to top 0M
    Depth to bottom 9.75M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Volume Of Great Salt Lake Controlling The Concentration Of Dissolved Solids In Aqueous Solution

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Great Salt Lake, North Arm

Land status

Ownership category State

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner State Of Utah
    Home office Utah

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • AMOUNT REFERS TO TONS OF DISSOLVED SOLIDS CONTAINED IN THE QUAD

Comments on the workings information

  • BRINES PUMPED FROM THIS DEPOSIT SUPPLY FEED STOCK TO 3 - STONGS KNOB 6 .

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Analytical Data

    SRC.REF: UGMS QUARTERLY SAMPLING, 1978

  • Deposit

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

  • Deposit

    1977 RECON UGMS WATER RESOURCE BULL. 1/21/77

  • Deposit

    1977 RECON WADDELL & FIELDS, WATER RESOURCE BULL; 1/21/77

  • Reserve-Resource

    STURM, PAUL, 1978 , UTAH GEOL. AND MINERALOG. SURVEY ON-SITE INVESTIGATION

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit PROCESSING PLANTS IN SE CORNER
Deposit CONCENTRATION SET AT LAKE LEVEL 4200'

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-APR-1979 Wilberg, Dale E. Bureau of Land Management

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