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Utah Dept. of Highways Pit #11025

Past Producer in Iron county in Utah, United States with commodity Sand and Gravel, Construction
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  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 10011175
MRDS ID D005477
Record type Site
Current site name Utah Dept. of Highways Pit #11025

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.84412, 37.7697 (WGS84)
Elevation 2227
Relative position 9550 FT. NE OF WHITE HILL

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Iron(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Parowan(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Panguitch(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Cedar City(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

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 Iron

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 035S 009W 11 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • SECTION SUBDIVISION: SE 1/4, NW 1/4, SW 1/4

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Sand and Gravel, Construction Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Basalt Ore
Quartzite Ore
Sandstone Ore

Analytical data

Result SIEVE ANALYSIS: BEFORE CRUSHING: GT 1"= 13.9%. AFTER CRUSHING: 1"=100%
Result 1/2"= 76.2%
Result #4=48.4%
Result #10=42.2%, #40=29.3%
Result #200=6.4%. LIQUID LIMIT=17. NOPLASTIC. SWELL=.001. A-1-A.

Host and associated rocks

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

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Hurricane Fault System

Ore body information

  • General form WEDGE
    Thickness 3.05M
    Depth to top 0.3M
    Depth to bottom 3.05M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Alluvial Fan

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Land status

Ownership category Private

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Unknown
    Area 0.008HA
    Overall length 10M
    Overall width 9.14M

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Analytical Data

    SRC.REF: UTAH DEPT. OF HIGHWAYS

  • Deposit

    UTAH DEPT. OF HIGHWAYS, MATERIALS INVENTORY, 1965, IRON COUNTY

  • Deposit

    1964 DIREXPL UTAH DEPT OF HIGHWAY

  • Production

    WILBERG, D.E., 1979.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit SUBANGULAR TO SUBROUNDED; PEBBLES, COBBLES, BOULDERS

Reporter information

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

Beyond USGS

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