Granite Mountain (Utah)

Granite Mountain is a mass of solid rock one mile up in the Wasatch range of Utah, not too far from. Despite its name, Granite Mountain is primarily composed of, an igneous rock similar to granite in appearance, physical characteristics, and chemical composition. This is the same material used to construct the and the facade of the.

Vault
The Granite Mountain Record Vault (also known simply as The Vault) is a large excavated 600 feet into the north side of the mountain, which is owned by. The Granite Mountain facilities feature a dry, environment-controlled facility used for long term record storage, as well as administration offices, shipping and receiving docks, a processing facility and restoration laboratory for microfilm.

Records stored include information in the form of over 2.4 million rolls of  and 1 million microfiche. This equals about 3 billion pages of records. The vault's library of microfilm increases by up to 40,000 rolls per year. Since 1999, the church has been digitizing the genealogical microfilms stored in the vault. The church seeks to make the records publicly available through its as well as online at its  website.