Utah Dept. of Highways Borrow Pit #14074

Occurrence 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. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. General comments
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10010675
MRDS ID D004557
Record type Site
Current site name Utah Dept. of Highways Borrow Pit #14074

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.64691, 39.28106 (WGS84)
Elevation 1398
Relative position 2,600 FEET SE OF DESERET

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Millard(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Hinckley(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 007W 04 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • S 1/2, NW 1/4

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Sand and Gravel, Construction Tertiary

Comments on the commodity information

  • NO GRAVEL PRESENT AT SITE

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Clay Ore

Analytical data

Result SIEVE ANALYSIS: NO. 10: 100
Result NO. 40: 84.3
Result NO. 200: 4.7
Result LIQUID LIMIT: 19.8
Result PLASTICITY INDEX: N.P.
Result SWELL: 0.0
Result A.A.S.H.O. CLASSIFICATION: A-3-O

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Unconsolidated Deposit > Clay, Mud
    Rock unit name Lake Clay
    Rock description Lake Clay
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Holocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Holocene

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.64691, 39.28106

Economic information

Ore body information

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

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Lake Floor

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Marlow Cropper

Comments on the workings information

  • DEPOSIT AT POTENTIAL STAGE, NOT DEVELOPED, NO WORKINGS

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Analytical Data

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

  • 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 STATE DEPT. OF HIGHWAYS MATERIAL INVENTORY OF MILLARD COUNTY, 1966

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit DEPOSIT NOT DEVELOPED

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.