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(Facility) Smelter Knolls South Borrow Pit

Plant 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. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Ore body information
  11. Controls for ore emplacement
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Land status
  14. Workings at the site
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. General comments
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10011291
MRDS ID D005871
Record type Site
Current site name (Facility) Smelter Knolls South Borrow Pit
Related records 10227418

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.84775, 39.40662 (WGS84)
Elevation 1411
Relative position 5,000 FEET WSW OF ABRAHAM RESERVOIR

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Millard(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Smelter Knolls East(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Delta(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Delta(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Lower Sevier(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 Millard

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 016S 009W 22 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • NW 1/4, SW 1/4, SE 1/4 SECTION 22

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Sand and Gravel, Construction Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • POOR ROAD GRAVEL, CONTAINS ABUNDANT LAKE CLAYS, WHICH FLOOR THE DEPOSIT.

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Clay Gangue

Host and associated rocks

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

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.84775, 39.40662
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form BLANKET
    Thickness 1.52M
    Depth to top 0.61M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Lake Bar

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Plant
Commodity type Non-metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Plant type Smelter

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface
    Area 0.476HA
    Overall length 125M
    Overall width 59.44M

Comments on the workings information

  • AV DEPTH 4 FEET

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    UTAH STATE DEPT OF HIGHWAYS, MATERIALS AND RESEARCH DIVISION, MATERIALS INVENTORY SECTIONS MILLARD COUNTY

  • Production

    STEGAN, R J, 1979, ON SITE INVESTIGATION: UT GEOL AND MIN SURV

  • Reserve-Resource

    STEGEN, R J, 1979, ON SITE INVESTIGATION: UT GEOL AND MIN SURV

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit SUB-ROUNDED TO WELL-ROUNDED, EQUANT HEAVILY INTERBEDDED WITH CLAY.

Reporter information

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

Beyond USGS

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