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Gravel Pit #14044

Past Producer in Millard 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. Nearby scientific data
  9. Ore body information
  10. Controls for ore emplacement
  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. General comments
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10011277
MRDS ID D005850
Record type Site
Current site name Gravel Pit #14044
Alternate or previous names Cove Fort Gravel Pit #4

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.5969, 38.67885 (WGS84)
Elevation 1768
Relative position 4.10 MILES NW OF DOG VALLEY PEAK

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Millard(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Dog Valley Peak(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Richfield(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Richfield(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Beaver Bottoms-Upper Beaver(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 Millard

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 024S 007W 36 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • SW 1/4, SW 1/4, NW 1/4

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Sand and Gravel, Construction Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Quartzite Ore
Sandstone Ore

Analytical data

Result SIEVE ANALYSIS: BEFORE: 73": 2.6
Result 71": 23.9
Result AFTER: 1": 100
Result 1/2": 78.4
Result #4:50.4
Result #10:41.5
Result #40:22.5
Result #200:13.2
Result LIQUID LIMIT: 21
Result PLASTICITY INDEX: 1.0
Result SWELL: .009
Result A.A.S.H.O. CLASSIFICATION: A-1-A

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.5969, 38.67885
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form WEDGE
    Thickness 6.1M
    Length 304.8M
    Width 243.84M
    Depth to top 1.22M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Pediment

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Land status

Ownership category Private

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface
    Area 2.115HA
    Overall length 250M
    Overall width 137.16M

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Analytical Data

    SRC.REF: UTAH DEPT. OF HIGHWAYS, 1966, MATERIALS INVENTORY MILLARD COUNTY

  • Deposit

    UTAH DEPT. OF HIGHWAYS, 1966, MATERIALS AND RESEARCH DIVISION, MATERIALS INVENTORY SECTION: MILLARD COUNT

  • Deposit

    1963 DIREXPL UTAH DEPT. OF HIGHWAY

  • Production

    STEGAN, R 1979, ON SITE INVESTIGATION: UT. GEOL. AND MIN. SUR.

  • Reserve-Resource

    UTAH DEPT. OF HIGHWAYS, 1966, MATERIALS INVENTORY OF MILLARD COUNTY

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit ANGULAR TO ROUNDED, EQUANT TO TABULAR, INTERBEDDED SAND SILT

Reporter information

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

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

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