Alta District

Occurrence in Salt Lake county in Utah, United States with commodity Tungsten
Sections on this page
  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Nearby scientific data
  7. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  8. Mining district
  9. Bibliographic references

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 60000052
MRDS ID D001358
Record type District
Current site name Alta District

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -111.63408, 40.58324 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Salt Lake(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Dromedary Peak(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)

Federal lands

Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest(National Forest)

National Forest FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Utah Salt Lake

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Tungsten Critical Primary

Nearby scientific data

(1) -111.63408, 40.58324

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic

Mining district

District name ALTA DISTRICT

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    LEMMON, D.M., UNPUBLISHED DATA.

  • Deposit

    LEMMON, D.M., AND TWETO, O.L., 1962, TUNGSTEN IN THE U.S., USGS MAP, MR-25.

  • Deposit

    CALKINS, F.C., AND BUTLER, B.S., 1943, USGS PROF. PAPER 201.

  • Deposit

    SHARP, B.J., 1958, GSA BULL. VOL. 69, P. 1415-1430.

  • Deposit

    CRAWFORD, A.L. AND BURANEK, A.M., 1944, UTAH UNIV. ENG. EXP. STA. BULL. 24.

Beyond USGS

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