Fife Sand & Gravel Pit

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

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10011152
MRDS ID D005432
Record type Site
Current site name Fife Sand & Gravel Pit

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.00137, 41.50049 (WGS84)
Elevation 1414
Relative position EAST OF BRIGHAM CITY

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Box Elder(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Brigham City(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Tremonton(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Brigham City(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Lower Bear-Malad(hydrologic unit)

Lower Bear(hydrologic accounting unit)

Bear(hydrologic subregion)

Great Basin(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest(National Forest)

National Forest FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Utah Box Elder

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 009N 001W 19 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • SECTION SUBDIVISIONS: LOCATED IN THE CENTER OF SECTION 19

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Sand and Gravel, Construction Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Gravel Unknown
Sand Unknown

Analytical data

Result SEIVE ANALYSIS, % PASSING BEFORE CRUSHING: GREATER THAN 3" GREATER THAN 1" LL 19.5 PI 1" 100 AFTER CRUSHING: 1/2", #4 57.9 #10 43.5 #40 25.2 #200 7.0

Host and associated rocks

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

Nearby scientific data

(1) Alluvium and colluvium

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Wasatch Mountains
Type of structure Local
Structure description Wellsville Mountains

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR
    Thickness 121.92M
    Length 914.4M
    Width 426.72M
    Depth to top 0M
    Depth to bottom 121.92M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Owner-Operator
    Owner Fife Rock Products

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface
    Area 10.952HA
    Overall length 457.2M
    Overall width 457.2M

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    UTAH STATE DEPT. OF HIGHWAYS MATERIALS INVENTORY: BOX ELDER COUNTY, 1964

  • Production

    M. EVERTS, 1979

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAR-1979 Everts, Michael L. Bureau of Land Management

Beyond USGS

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