Utah Dept. of Highways Pit No. 14015

Producer in Millard county in Utah, United States with commodity Sand and Gravel, Construction
Sections on this page
  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Public Land Survey System information
  6. Commodities
  7. Materials information
  8. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Ore body information
  11. Controls for ore emplacement
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Land status
  14. Ownership information
  15. Workings at the site
  16. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. General comments
  19. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10010629
MRDS ID D004455
Record type Site
Current site name Utah Dept. of Highways Pit No. 14015

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.13828, 39.23163 (WGS84)
Elevation 1631
Relative position 6 MILES NNE OF LOWER EBBS SPRING

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Millard(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Scipio Pass(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Delta(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Delta(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Lower Sevier(hydrologic unit)

Escalante Desert-Sevier Lake(hydrologic accounting unit)

Escalante Desert-Sevier Lake(hydrologic subregion)

Great Basin(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Utah Millard

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 018S 003W 24 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • SEC 24, SE 1/4, NE 1/4, SW 1/4

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Sand and Gravel, Construction Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • GOOD GRAVEL, CONTAINS INTERBEDDED SAND, SILT AND SOME CLAY, NUMEROUS LARGE BOULDERS

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Clay Gangue

Analytical data

Result SIEVE ANALYSIS: BEFORE: 3":0
Result 1":30.0
Result AFTER: 1":100
Result #4:46.1
Result #10:33.8
Result #40:19.0
Result #200:8.3
Result LIQUID LIMIT:21.3
Result PLASTICITY INDEX: 2.4
Result SWELL: .016
Result A.A.S.H.O. CLASSIFICATION
Result A-1-A

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Unconsolidated Deposit > Gravel
    Rock unit name Alluvium
    Rock description Alluvium
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Holocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Holocene

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.13828, 39.23163

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form WEDGE
    Depth to top 0.91M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Alluvial Fan

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Non-metallic
Deposit size Large
Significant No

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Don Propert

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • UTAH HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT 1966 RESERVES FIGURE IS EXTREMELY CONSERVATIVE, AS MORE THAN 400,000 CY HAVE ALREADY BEEN TAKEN OUT

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface
    Area 6.94HA
    Overall length 470M
    Overall width 347.47M

Comments on the workings information

  • LARGE EXTENSIVE WORKINGS, PITS AS DEEP AS 45 FEET, INTENSIVE MINING EFFORT WHILE EVALUATION WAS TAKING PLACE.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Analytical Data

    SRC.REF: UTAH DEPT. OF HIGHWAYS MATERIAL INVENTORY MILLARD CO.

  • Deposit

    UTAH STATE DEPT. OF HIGHWAYS, MATERIALS & RESEARCH DIVISION, MATERIALS INVENTORY SECTION: MILLARD COUNTY, 1966

  • Deposit

    1966 DIREXPL UTAH DEPT. OF HIGHWAYS MATERIAL INVENTOR

  • Production

    STEGEN, R.J. 1979, GEOLOGIST

  • Reserve-Resource

    UTAH DEPT. OF HIGHWAYS MATERIAL INVENTORY

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit ANGULAR TO SUBROUNDED EQUANT TO TABULAR EXTENSIVE INTERBEDDED SAND, SILT & CLAY-NUMEROUS BOULDERS

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUL-1979 Stegan, Ralph J. Bureau of Land Management

Beyond USGS

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