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	OQUIRRH MOUNTAINS : Encyclopedia Entry
		The mountains have been mined for gold, silver, lead, and most famously for copper, as home of the world-class copper porphyry deposit at Bingham Canyon Mine, one of the world's largest open pit mines.
		As seen from Salt Lake City, the view of the mountain range is dominated by the displaced rock material (known as "spoils") dug from the Kennecott mine.
		In the winter months, the mountains also become home to a small population of bald eagles, which can often be found in the cliffs on the west side of the range down to the reservoir near the town of Stockton.
	www.bibleocean.com /OmniDefinition/Oquirrh_Mountains (438 words)

	Oquirrh Institute (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The Oquirrh Institute was formed in Salt Lake City, Utah, the rise of the Great Basin, with a mission to shine early light on emerging public policy dilemmas and to create innovative solutions.
		The Oquirrh Institute is governed by a Board of Trustees who have comprehensive vision of contemporary issues and understand the scope of information regarding the social repercussions of technology development.
		Founded in 2004, the Oquirrh Institute Governors Board is a growing group of former governors from around the nation who advise the Institute on public policy questions and participate in Oquirrh Institute meetings and forums.
	www.oquirrhinstitute.org /about-faqs.html (445 words)

	Utah Wilderness Inventory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		To facilitate an interdisciplinary land-use planning effort, these lands were inventoried to determine whether or not wilderness characteristics is present.The unit includes the west slope of the Oquirrh Mountains from the crest of the mountain range westward to the foothills.
		The Oquirrhs are steep, rugged, and highly dissected with numerous canyons.
		The Oquirrh Mountains separate the West Desert of Utah from the extensive development of the Wasatch Front.
	www.ut.blm.gov /utahwilderness/wrpt/wrptnwoquirrh.html (857 words)

	Oquirrh Mountains - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Oquirrh Mountains are a mountain range that run north-south for approximately 30 miles (50 km) to form the west side of Utah's Salt Lake Valley, separating it from Tooele Valley.
		As seen from Salt Lake City, the view of the mountain range is dominated by the displaced rock material dug from the Kennecott mine.
		In the winter months, the mountains also become home to a small population of bald eagles, which can often be found in the cliffs on the west side of the range down to the reservoir near the town of Stockton.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Oquirrh_Mountains (375 words)

	Area Information - Climate Summary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The Oquirrh Mountains seven to eight miles (eleven to thirteen kilometers) to the southwest of the city have several peaks above 10,000 feet (3,050 meters).
		These mountain ranges shelter the valley from storms from the southwest in the winter, but are instrumental in developing thunderstorms which can drift over the valley in the summer.
		Mountains to the north and east act as a barrier to frequent invasions of cold continental air.
	www.slcgov.com /info/area_info/climate.htm (724 words)

	Oquirrh Mountains - Education - Information - Educational Resources - Encyclopedia - Music
		The Oquirrh Mountains are a mountain range that run north-south for approximately 30 miles (50 km) to form the west side of Utah's Salt Lake Valley, separating it from Tooele Valley.
		The name Oquirrh (pronounced O-Ker) was taken from the Goshute Indian word meaning "wooded mountain."
		The mountains have been mined for gold, silver, lead, and most famously for copper, as home of Kennecott Copper Mine, the world's largest open pit mine.
	www.music.us /education/O/Oquirrh-Mountains.htm (340 words)

	Porter GeoConsultancy - Ore Deposit Description (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The Barneys Canyon Project is located in the northern Oquirrh Mountains, to the south-west of Salt Lake City in Utah, USA, and approximately 8 km to the north of the Bingham Canyon porphyry copper mine.
		In contrast the northern Oquirrh Mountains, in which the Barneys Canyon and Melco deposits are located, have been deformed by a north-east trending set of folds.
		The two segments of the Oquirrh Mountains are separated by the long lived, east-west trending Uinta Lineament on which the Bingham Canyon Mine lies.
	www.portergeo.com.au /database/mineinfo.asp?mineid=mn592 (3526 words)

	WebRoots Library U.S. Journeys (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The mountains, in particular, with the forests on their flanks, their mazy lacelike canyons, the wombs of the ancient glaciers, and their marvelous profusion of ornate sculpture, were most impressively manifest.
		The mountain ranges, stretching majestically north and south, were piled with pearly cumuli, the sky overhead was pure azure, and the wind-swept lake was all aroll and aroar with whitecaps.
		The basins of the main valleys alternating with the mountain ranges, and which contained lakes during at least the closing portion of the Ice Period, were eroded wholly, or in part, from a general elevated tableland, by immense glaciers that flowed north and south to the ocean.
	www.webroots.org /library/usatrav/st-jm-02.html (14844 words)

	Edison Project Activity: mountains (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The form of mountains and canyons is always being changed by weather - rain, wind, snow, etc. Glaciers also helped form canyons years ago.
		Today we're going to investigate how mountains are formed and how their shape is changed by weather.
		Have one group make a small "mountain" out of sandy soil (the soil may need to be moistened first) and one group make some sand dunes with sand.
	www.utah.edu /cseo/mountains.html (612 words)

	A Great Storm in Utah, Chapter 7 of 'Steep Trails' by John Muir (1918) - The Writings of John Muir - John Muir Exhibit ...
		The mountains are laden with fresh snow; wild streams are swelling and booming adown the canyons, and out in the valley of the Jordan a thousand rain-pools are gleaming in the sun.
		The mountains, in particular, with the forests on their flanks, their mazy lacelike canyons, the wombs of the ancient glaciers, and their marvelous profusion of ornate sculpture, were most impressively manifest.
		Looking across the Jordan, the gray sagey slopes from the base of the Oquirrh Mountains were covered with a thick, plushy cloth of gold, soft and ethereal as a cloud, not merely tinted and gilded like a rock with autumn sunshine, but deeply muffled beyond recognition.
	www.sierraclub.org /John_Muir_exhibit/writings/steep_trails/chapter_7.html (983 words)

	History of The Oquirr Mountains, Utah
		The name Oquirrh (pronounced O-Ker) was taken from the Goshute Indian word meaning "wooded mountain." Early visits to these mountains were undertaken by the Indians, mountain men, government explorers, and Mormon pioneers.
		For the next decade, the Oquirrhs continued to be used as a grazing ground as well as a valuable source of timber for the Mormons.
		It was not until the turn of the century and the dawn of the electrical age that copper began to be taken from the Oquirrhs.
	www.onlineutah.com /oquirrhmountainshistory.shtml (1079 words)

	A Climatological Study of Thermally Driven Wind Systems of the
		The Salt Lake Valley is bounded to the south by the Traverse Mountains, a transverse mountain range that extends between the Wasatch and Oquirrh Mountains.
		The Tooele and Rush Valleys are bounded by the Oquirrh Mountains on the east, the Stansbury Mountains on the west, and the Tintic and Sheep Rock Mountains on the south.
		The broad Tooele Valley gradually slopes downward from the Stansbury and Oquirrh Mountains and to the north towards the GSL.
	www.met.utah.edu /jimsteen/personal/windsys.html (5899 words)

	Capital Tour
		The dome is covered with a sheet of Utah copper, which was replaced in 1980 after a storm blew off a significant portion of the original roofing.
		Mountain Ranges: From the front steps, you can see the Wasatch and Oquirrh mountains, which were named by the Ute Indians in their native language.
		Mormon Battalion Monument: In 1846, 500 enlistees from the Mormon settlements in Council Bluffs, Iowa, marched 2,000 miles to fight in the Mexican conflict.
	www.utah.gov /capitoltour/page2.html (539 words)

	desertislands.org (Exploring the Great Basin!)
		The town is situated in the southern portion of the Oquirrh Mountains.
		It is at the top of the mountain, is very steep and he had over 40 pounds of camera equipment...
		The Oquirrhs have a lot of old and weird history tucked away in its 1000's of abandoned mineshafts, broken down trestles and creaky blowing-in-the-wind doors Just ask one of the folks up there and you won't believe some of the things you hear.
	www.desertislands.org /oquirrh.htm (1086 words)

	News 11-12-98 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Salt Lake City is snuggled in a valley between the Wasatch and Oquirrh Mountains.
		Farmers in the valley were also faced with a dilemma, they had adequate water during the spring and early summer as the streams ran high but come late summer there was inadequate stream flow to mature their crops.
		In the early 1900’s, the area was involved in silver and lead strikes and the mountains were littered with mining operations.
	www.slcgov.com /utilities/news111298.htm (1549 words)

	Articles - Kennecott Copper Mine \| Utah.com
		In the middle of one of the ranges a huge vein of copper thrust towards the surface in the form of a 9,000-foot high mountain.
		In the 1960s the company began an aggressive seeding program in the Oquirrhs, and billions of dollars spent beginning in the 1970s helped to clean the air and clean and conserve the water.
		I would rather look at a mountain than a huge human-made pit, but at the same time I realize the need for copper and what it gives to me. Standing at the mining visitor center, looking south at the serrated walls of the mine, I am amazed at the algebraic structure of the pit.
	www.utah.com /schmerker/2000/kennecott_mine.htm (1461 words)

	Sagebrush and Solitude: The Mystique of Utah's Basin and Range Country
		Most mountain ranges are formed by compression, like the crinkling of your skin around the corners of your eyes when your cheek rises in a smile.
		Outside the Cricket Mountains is an active limestone operation, but a sizable buffer is drawn around it in the citizens' wilderness proposal, and the existing claims or conceivable extent of the mine in the future covers perhaps 20 percent of the whole unit, yet the whole shebang is still omitted.
		Along the periphery of the mountains, in the sagebrush and shadscale grasslands, is key habitat for the pronghorn, regally colored and swift of hoof.
	www.suwa.org /newsletters/1999/winter/1.html (4108 words)

	Orpiment from Barneys Canyon Salt Lake County, Utah Rocks & Minerals - Find Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Barneys Canyon operation is nestled along the east flank of the Oquirrh Mountains just west of Salt Lake City and only 5 miles north of the world-famous Bingham Canyon copper mine.
		The Oquirrh Mountains are the easternmost range in this province, whose eastern edge is the north-south-trending Wasatch fault.
		The Oquirrh Mountains are composed of late Paleozic shallow-water carbonates and sandstones deposited in a subsiding basin.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0GDX/is_3_80/ai_n13676530 (927 words)

	Camp Williams, Utah (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The Traverse Mountains, though very small (17 miles maximum length and 5.5 miles maximum width) maintain an importance out of proportion with their size because they separate the Great Basin geologic and physiographic province from the Western Rocky Mountains province and because of their unusual east-west orientation (Marsell, 1932).
		The Camp is stratified by predominantly east-west drainages on the eastern half of the camp and north-south drainages on the western half of the camp revealing vegetation patterns that are strongly tied to slope and aspect.
		Elevations range from 4,494 feet on the Jordan River to 7,255 feet on Sheep's Ridge in the Oquirrh Mountains.
	www.gis.uiuc.edu /mojave/campwill.htm (236 words)

	i15 Southern Laurasia
		During the Permian, Southern Laurasia was vast realm between the Ural intracontinental mountains forming on its east and an ancient chain of high intracontinental mountains along its southern boundary with Gondwanaland.
		Sediments washed from the intracontinental mountains, accumulated on the lowland and its near offshore.
		Between these provinces were intracontinent mountains with thin-skinned thrust fault and fold displacements outward-directed along the line of joining of prior separate paleocontinents, respectively, ORS (Old Red Sandstone paleocontinent) and Gondwana.
	geowords.com /histbooknetscape/i15.htm (1518 words)

	Utah History Encyclopedia
		The Oquirrh Mountains lie on the west side of the Salt Lake Valley, extending north and south about thirty miles.
		The West Mountain Mining District was organized on 17 September 1863, and included most of the Oquirrh Mountains.
		In fact, so much wealth has been taken from the Oquirrhs that it has been estimated that the value of minerals taken from Bingham Canyon alone exceeds by eight times all of the finds of the California and Klondike gold rushes plus the yields of Nevada's Comstock Lode.
	www.media.utah.edu /UHE/o/OQUIRRHMOUNT.html (1069 words)

	Oquirrh Mountain Utah LDS (Mormon) Temple
		As of July 2007, the reinforced cement exterior walls of the Oquirrh Mountain Utah Temple are rising high above the ground at its location in the Daybreak development of South Jordan.
		The temple sits at the foot of the Oquirrh (pronounced O'-ker) Mountains and faces east toward a panoramic view of the Wasatch Mountains and the valley's other three temples: the Salt Lake Temple, Jordan River Utah Temple, and Draper Utah Temple.
		Situated on 4,126 acres of land at the base of the Oquirrh Mountains, the plan preserves 30 percent of the land for parks, trails, a lake, and natural open spaces.
	www.ldschurchtemples.com /oquirrhmountain (538 words)

	USGS Spectroscopy Lab - Preliminary AVIRIS Mapping Results, Oquirrh Mountains, Utah
		The study area (Figure 1.1), located approximately 65 miles southwest of Salt Lake City in the southern part of the Oquirrh Mountains, includes the Camp Floyd (Mercur) mining district, Rush Valley, and the southeastern portion of the Tooele Army Depot.
		The Oquirrh Mountains are composed of a Paleozoic sedimentary suite that is more that 22,000 feet thick.
		Tooker, E.W., R.J. Roberts, Upper Paleozoic Rocks in the Oquirrh Mountains and Bingham Mining District, Utah, USGS Professional Paper 629-A, 1970.
	speclab.cr.usgs.gov /earth.studies/Utah-1/Jpl_pap.wpd.html (1546 words)

	Utah Habitat: Basin and Range Province
		Utah and Salt Lake Valley are quite unique in that they provide a buffer zone between two vastly different mountain ranges--The Wasatch Range to the east and the Oquirrh Mountains to the west.
		The Wasatch Range represents the westernmost extension of the Rocky Mountains whereas the Oquirrh Mountains and Lake Mountains represent the eastern extension of the Great Basin or Basin and Range Province.
		Because these two mountain ranges come from different geological eras, their flora and fauna can be quite diverse as well.
	www.utahlepsociety.org /basinrange.html (325 words)

	Quaternary Studies - Natural Resources Map & Bookstore
		The Bingham mining district in the Oquirrh Mountains is one of the world's largest copper producers.
		The Black Rock Desert is the southern extension of the Sevier Desert between the Cricket Mountains and the Pavant Range, and lies mostly between altitudes of 4650 feet (1420 m) and 6000 feet (1800 m).
		The Scipio Valley is located in central Utah between the Canyon Mountains and Pavant Range on the west, and the Valley Mountains on the east.
	www.maps.state.ut.us /ugs/quaterny.htm (4404 words)

	Map of Utah's Gold Placers - Utah Geological Survey
		Oquirrh Mountains, Bingham Canyon - Was the largest gold placer in Utah.
		Henry Mountains - On the east flanks of Mt. Ellen in Crescent Creek and Mt. Pennell along Straight Creek.
		Tushar Mountains - In Mill Creek on the north flank of Signal Peak and near the mouth of Pine Gulch Creek in Bullion Canyon.
	geology.utah.gov /online/PI-50/pi50map2.htm (186 words)

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