Granite Mountain
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Granite Mountain is a mass of solid rock one mile up Little Cottonwood Canyon in the Wasatch range of Utah, not too far from Salt Lake City, Utah. Despite its name, Granite Mountain is primarily composed of quartz monzonite, an igneous rock similar to granite in appearance, physical characteristics, and chemical composition. There is a large vault excavated 600 feet into the north side of the mountain that contains over 2.4 million rolls of microfilm containing genealogical information. The vault is owned by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints for the purpose of storing records used in vicarious ordinances. The Granite Mountain facilities feature a dry, environment-controlled storage facility for microfilm as well as a processing facility and restoration labority for microfilm. It also has Administration offices as well as shipping and receiving docks for new microfilm. The vault's library of microfilm increases by up to 40,000 rolls per year.
Since 1999, the church has been digitizing the microfilms stored in the vault at Granite Mountain. The church seeks to make the records publicly available through its Family History Centers as well as online at its FamilySearch.org website.
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- http://www.lightplanet.com/mormons/daily/family_history/granite_mountain_eom.htm
- http://www.ancestry.com/learn/library/article.aspx?article=11011
