Utah Dept. of Highways Gravel Pit No. 11079

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. Workings at the site
  14. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10011207
MRDS ID D005526
Record type Site
Current site name Utah Dept. of Highways Gravel Pit No. 11079

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -113.66109, 37.67247 (WGS84)
Elevation 1586
Relative position 13550 FEET SOUTH OF BERYL JUNCTION

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Iron(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Beryl Junction(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Cedar City(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)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Utah Iron

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 036S 016W 09 Utah

Comments on the location information

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

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Sand and Gravel, Construction Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Sand Ore

Analytical data

Result 1" 100, #10 91.3, #40 69.4, #200 45.6, LIQUID LIMIT 26.4, PLASTICITY INDEX 7.7 A.A.S.H.O A-4 (4)

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) -113.66109, 37.67247

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR
    Thickness 3.05M
    Length 304.8M
    Depth to top 0.3M
    Depth to bottom 3.35M

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 Surface
    Overall length 182.88M
    Overall width 45.72M

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    UTAH STATE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION, 1965, MATERIALS & RESEARCH DIVISION, MATERIALS INVENTORY OF IRON, CO

  • Deposit

    1954 DIREXPL UTAH STATE DEPT. OF TRANSPORTATIO

  • Production

    L.I. PERRY 1979

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUL-1979 Perry, Lee I. Bureau of Land Management

Beyond USGS

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