Well, I was in SLC Friday morning and had a few hours to kill and decided to see if I could track down any utah rock for my tank. I've read the intructions on how to get to the place many times and the only thing that I could remember was that there was mention of the second Grantsville Exit. So I took it and headed toward Stansbury Island. Once I passed the evaporation ponds I arrived at Broken arrow salt road (which is clearly marked) and instead of going left out to the flats I turned right and "bajaed" my saturn coupe up the road as far as I could go. I got out and at first didn't see much so I walked up a little higher and started finding little pieces of what appeared to be aragonite spread out here and there. Some pieces where very pourous and had interesting shapes but others were not so interesting. I gathered about 200 lbs (all that would fit in my trunk) which now is washed and in my 125g tank. There may be better stuff out there but what I found I was pretty impressed with. (Especially for free)
The interesting thing was that the rock only was found at a certain elevation just above the first bench on the island. I'm not sure if other people have had luck there as well but I thought I would share my experience and findings and hopefully make it easy for other people to find as well. (definetly worth the trip!)
If anyone would like any info on where I found the rock don't hesitate to call.
Dallan
435-730-5143
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