Ninemile Knoll Gravel Pit #5

Past Producer in Beaver 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. Geologic structures
  11. Ore body information
  12. Controls for ore emplacement
  13. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  14. Land status
  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 10010677
MRDS ID D004560
Record type Site
Current site name Ninemile Knoll Gravel Pit #5

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -113.08302, 38.23469 (WGS84)
Elevation 1536
Relative position 2.45 MILES SW OF CACTUS POND

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Beaver(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Ninemile Knoll(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Wah Wah Mountains South(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Richfield(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Beaver Bottoms-Upper Beaver(hydrologic unit)

Escalante Desert-Sevier Lake(hydrologic accounting unit)

Escalante Desert-Sevier Lake(hydrologic subregion)

Great Basin(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

BLM Administrative Area(land status)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Utah Beaver

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 030S 011W 03 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • SECTION SUBDIVISIONS: NW 1/4, NW 1/4, NW 1/4

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Sand and Gravel, Construction Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • INTERBEDS OF SAND AND SILT.

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Quartzite Ore
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
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Unconsolidated Deposit > Alluvium

Nearby scientific data

(1) -113.08302, 38.23469

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Sevier Orgenic Belt

Ore body information

  • General form BLANKET
    Thickness 1.52M
    Depth to top 0.61M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Lake Terrace

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface
    Area 0.853HA
    Overall length 100M
    Overall width 73.15M

Comments on the workings information

  • AVERAGE DEPTH 1.5 YDS

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    STEGEN, R.J., 1979, UT. GEOL. AND MINE. SURVEY; ON SITE INVESTIGATION

  • Production

    STEGEN, R.J., 1979, GEOLOGIST

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit COMMODITY IS ROUNDED TO WELL ROUNDED, PREDOMINATELY TABULAR IN SHAPE. DEPOSIT FLOORED BY LAKE CLAYS.

Reporter information

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

Beyond USGS

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