Flux Traditional Cache
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This area needed another cache, and we needed an X for the Alphabet Cities Utah Challenge (GC1D60W). So get in your trucks and head to Flux! (Utah Tribute Song)
Flux has its own little circle in the DeLorme Atlas, but is more of a rail station than a real town. It is mentioned only briefly as a rail stop in at least one Tooele County History. Flux was at one time the home of a large limestone mine and plant. The operations at Flux and nearby Dolomite were the biggest in the state of utah. They furnished the lime for Kennecott Copper’s plant in Salt Lake County. U.S. Lime had its own crushing, screening, sizing, and pulverizing facilities. The crushed limestone was used in the smelting of nonferrous metals, sugar refining, and for “sweetening up” cement. Pulverized stone was also sold as an additive in asphalt black-top road mix, as rock dust for coal mining, a water purifier for treatment plants, and at one time used for fluorine gas control at the Geneva Steel Works in Utah County. (Utah Mining Association, "Operational and Economic Review, August 1967, page 83.)
Limestone and gypsum are also used in wallboard and roofing materials as well as cement products. There is still an active quarry and processing plant at the railroad station known as Dolomite, as well as the one at Flux.
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