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Red Knolls South #3 Gravel Pit

Past Producer in Millard county in Utah, United States with commodity Sand and Gravel, Construction
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  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. Mining district
  14. Land status
  15. Ownership information
  16. Workings at the site
  17. Links to other databases
  18. Bibliographic references
  19. General comments
  20. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10010661
MRDS ID D004526
Record type Site
Current site name Red Knolls South #3 Gravel Pit

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -113.07331, 39.27856 (WGS84)
Elevation 1475
Relative position 2.25 MILES NNW OF SOAP WASH RESERVOIR

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Millard(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Red Knolls(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Tule Valley(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)

Federal lands

Bureau of Land Management(Bureau of Land Management UT)

Bureau of Land Management UT BLM(Type of land area)

BLM(Federal land areas administered by BLM)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Utah Millard

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 018S 011W 03 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • SE 1/4, SE 1/4, NE 1/4, SECTION 3

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Sand and Gravel, Construction Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • LAKE CLAYS AT BASE OF DEPOSIT

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Clay Gangue

Host and associated rocks

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

Nearby scientific data

(1) Alluvium and colluvium
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form BLANKET
    Thickness 3.05M
    Depth to top 0M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Lake Terrace

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Marjum Pass Road.

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner U.S. Bureau Of Land Management

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface
    Area 0.515HA
    Overall length 120M
    Overall width 54.86M

Comments on the workings information

  • AV. DEPTH 2 YDS. NUMEROUS BULLDOZER SCRAPINGS ADJACENT TO PITS; 1 OTHER SMALL PIT AT 20X20 YDS, AV. DEPTH 1 YD.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

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

  • Production

    STEGEN, R.J., 1979

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit ROUNDED TO WELL-ROUNDED EQUANT & TABULAR PEBBLES.

Reporter information

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

Beyond USGS

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