Utah Dept. of Highways Gravel Pit No. 11074

Past Producer in Iron 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. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Land status
  13. Ownership information
  14. Workings at the site
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10011046
MRDS ID D005231
Record type Site
Current site name Utah Dept. of Highways Gravel Pit No. 11074

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -113.47109, 38.0058 (WGS84)
Elevation 1582
Relative position 6700 FEET SW OF SULPHUR SPRING

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Iron(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Lund(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

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

Richfield(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Escalante Desert(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 Iron

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 032S 014W 19 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • DEPOSIT LOCATION IS REPRESENTATIVE OF A LARGER, MORE EXTENSIVE DEPOSIT

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Sand and Gravel, Construction Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Sand Ore

Analytical data

Result SIEVE ANALYSIS: BEFORE CRUSHING: GT 1" = 6.1%
Result AFTER CRUSHING: 1" = 100%
Result 1/2" = 90.3%
Result NO. 4 = 75.2%
Result NO. 10 = 54.2%
Result NO. 40 = 13.9%
Result NO. 200 = 3.8%. LIQUID LIMIT = 18.5%
Result NON-PLASTIC
Result SWELL = .006. A-1-A

Host and associated rocks

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

Nearby scientific data

(1) -113.47109, 38.0058

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form WEDGE
    Thickness 3.05M
    Length 14483.7M
    Depth to top 0M
    Depth to bottom 3.05M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Ownership information

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

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • POTENTIAL RESERVES ARE LARGE

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface
    Area 0.941HA
    Overall length 150M
    Overall width 68.58M

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    UTAH STATE DEPARTMENT OF HIGHWAYS MATERIALS INVENTORY, 1965, IRON COUNTY

  • Deposit

    1946 DIREXPL UTAH DEPT. OF HIGHWAY

  • Production

    THIS REVIEW

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUL-1979 Wilberg, Dale E. Bureau of Land Management

Beyond USGS

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