Utah Dept. of Highways Pit No. 14081

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 10010692
MRDS ID D004591
Record type Site
Current site name Utah Dept. of Highways Pit No. 14081
Alternate or previous names Cat Canyon Gravel Pit #1

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.91247, 38.79163 (WGS84)
Elevation 1521
Relative position 2.0 MILES ESE OF CAT CANYON RESERVOIR

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Millard(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Cat Canyon(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Richfield(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Richfield(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Lower Beaver(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 023S 009W 30 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • NE 1/4, NW 1/4, NW 1/4, SEC 30

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Sand and Gravel, Construction Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Clay Gangue

Analytical data

Result SIEVE ANALYSIS: 1":100
Result 1/2":76.5
Result #4:39.3
Result #10:30.9
Result #40:21.9
Result #200:6.3
Result LIQUID LIMIT: 19.8
Result PLASTICITY INDEX: N.P.
Result SWELL: .008
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 Lake Bonneville Formation
    Rock description Lake Bonneville Formation
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Holocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Holocene

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.91247, 38.79163

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form BLANKET
    Thickness 3.66M
    Depth to top 0.3M

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

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 1.58HA
    Overall length 180M
    Overall width 137.16M

Comments on the workings information

  • AVG DEPTH 1 YD.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Analytical Data

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

  • Deposit

    UTAH DEPT. OF HIGHWAYS MATERIAL & RESEARCH DIVISION, SECTION MILLARD COUNTY MATERIAL INVENTORY, 196

  • 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 SUBROUNDED TO WELL ROUNDED, TABULAR TO BLADED TO EQUANT, INTERBEDDED SAND

Reporter information

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

Beyond USGS

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