Mine detail: Redmond Clay and Salt-Salt Pit

Location:	Sanpete County, Utah, United States, North America
Lat / long:	39.04635, -111.87133
dep_id:	10042331
mrds_id:	M058937
Commodity type:	nonmetallic
Major mineral:	Halite
Operation type:	Unknown
Production size:	Medium ammount of material produced
Development status:	Producer
ore:	Halite
orebody_fm:	LENS
work_type:	Surface/Underground
ore_ctrl:	Red Hills Anticline
Reporter:	Tripp, Bryce T.
hrock_unit:	Twelvemile Canyon Member Of The Arapien Shale
hrock_type:	Limestone
Structure:	Gunnison Plateau Syncline, Sanpete-Sevier Valley Anticline, Redmond Hills Anticline
tectonic:	Wasatch Plateau
References:	Deposit:: UGMS, USGS, 1964, MINERAL AND WATER RESOURCES OF UTAH: UGMS BULL. 73, P-206-215. Deposit:: PRATT, A.R. AND CALLAHAN, E., 1970, LAND AND MINERAL RESOURCES OF SANPETE COUNTY, UTAH: UGMS BULL. 85, P. 48-50. Deposit:: WITKIND, I.J., 1981, RECONNAISSANCE GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE REDMOND QUADRANGLE, SANPETE AND SEVIER COUNTIES, UTAH: USGS MAP I-1304-A. Deposit:: PRATT, A.R., ET. AL., 1966, SALT DEPOSITS OF SEVIER VALLEY, UTAH IN SYMPOSIUM ON SALT, 2ND, VOL. 1. Deposit:: BOSSHARDT, N., 1985, PERSONAL COMMUNICATION. Deposit:: TRIPP, B., 1985, ON SITE INVESTIGATION: UGMS. Deposit:: HARDY, C.T., 1952, EASTERN SEVIER VALLEY, SEVIER AND SANPETE COUNTIES, UTAH: UGMS BULL. 43, 98 P. Deposit:: GILLILAND, W.N., 1951, GEOLOGY OF THE GUNNISON QUADRANGLE, UTAH: UNIV. OF NEBRASKA STUDIES, NEW SER., NO. 8, 101 P.