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Utah Dept of Highways Pit #14087

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. 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. Ownership information
  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 10011309
MRDS ID D005906
Record type Site
Current site name Utah Dept of Highways Pit #14087

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.92303, 39.23384 (WGS84)
Elevation 1394
Relative position 4 MILES E NE OF TAMARACK RESERVOIR

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Millard(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Rocky Knoll(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 018S 010W 24 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • S 1/2, NW 1/4, SE 1/4 OF SECTION 24

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Sand and Gravel, Construction Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • GOOD GRAVEL; SOME INTERBEDDED CLAY AND SILT

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Clay Gangue

Analytical data

Result SIEVE ANALYSIS: BEFORE: 3" : 0
Result 1" : 2.9
Result AFTER: 1" : 100
Result #4 : 35.0
Result #10 : 16.3
Result #40 : 7.3
Result #200 : 1.8, LIQUID LIMIT: 18.8
Result PLASTICITY INDEX: N.P.
Result SWELL: .010
Result A.A.S.H.O. CLASSIFICATION: A-1-A

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) -112.92303, 39.23384
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form BLANKET
    Thickness 3.05M
    Depth to top 1.52M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Lake Bar

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner U.S. Bureau Of Land Management

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • CUMULATIVE PRODUCTION FIGURE GREATLY EXCEEDS RESERVES FIGURE

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface
    Area 3.779HA
    Overall length 240M
    Overall width 137.16M

Comments on the workings information

  • AVERAGE DEPTH OF 3 1/2 YDS, ANOTHER ADJACIENT PIT ACROSS HIGHWAY 200 YDS X 130 YDS X 2 YDS (30%)

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Analytical Data

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

  • Deposit

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

  • Deposit

    1966 DIREXPL UTAH DEPT OF HIGHWAYS MATERIAL INVENTOR

  • Production

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

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit SUBROUNDED TO WELL ROUNDED PEBBLES, MOSTLY OF EQUANT SHAPE WITH SOME TABULAR AND PROLUTE. SOME INTERBEDDING OF CLAY AND SILT, DEPOSIT FLOORED BY LAKE CLAY

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUN-1979 Stegan, Ralph J. U.S. Geological Survey

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