Utah Dept. of Highways Pit #14075

Past 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. 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 10010669
MRDS ID D004543
Record type Site
Current site name Utah Dept. of Highways Pit #14075

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.71386, 39.14523 (WGS84)
Elevation 1396
Relative position 1,000 FEET EAST OF SUNSTONE KNOLL

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Millard(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Sunstone Knoll(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)

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 019S 008W 23 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • SW 1/4, NE 1/4, SE 1/4

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Sand and Gravel, Construction Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • CONTAINS INTERBEDDED CLAY

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Basalt Ore
Clay Gangue

Analytical data

Result SIEVE ANALYSIS: 1": 100
Result #4:85.5
Result #10:66.3
Result #40:26.0
Result #200:5.3
Result LIQUID LIMIT: 16.6
Result PLASTICITY INDEX: N.P.
Result SWELL: .019
Result A.A.S.H.O. CLASSIFICATION: A-1-A

Host and associated rocks

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

Nearby scientific data

(1) Basalts

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form WEDGE
    Thickness 1.52M
    Depth to top 0M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Cinder Cone

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name State Highway 257

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 1.179HA
    Overall length 240M
    Overall width 50.29M

Comments on the workings information

  • AVERAGE DEPTH 2 YDS, ADJACIENT PIT AT 80 YDS X 45YDS X 2YDS (20%),

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Analytical Data

    SRC.REF: UTAH DEPT. OF HIGHWAYS, 1966, MATERIALS INVENTORY MILLARD COUNTY

  • Deposit

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

  • Deposit

    1966 DIREXPL UTAH DEPT. OF HIGHWAYS MATERIAL INVENTOR

  • Production

    STEGEN, R.J., 1979

  • Reserve-Resource

    UTAH DEPT. OF HIGHWAYS MATERIAL INVENTORY OF MILLARD COUNTY

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit ANGULAR TO SUBROUNDED, EQUANT, THE DEPOSIT HAS INTERBEDDED CLAY, CLAY FLOORS THE DEPOSIT

Reporter information

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

Beyond USGS

Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.