Waterfall Sand & Gravel Pit

Producer in Box Elder 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. Geologic structures
  11. Ore body information
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Land status
  15. Ownership information
  16. Workings at the site
  17. Links to other databases
  18. Bibliographic references
  19. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10011360
MRDS ID D006142
Record type Site
Current site name Waterfall Sand & Gravel Pit
Alternate or previous names Highway Dept Pit No. 02015

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -111.99414, 41.5041 (WGS84)
Elevation 1433
Relative position 14000 FT W OF MANTUA

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Box Elder(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Mount Pisgah(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Logan(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Ogden(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Lower Bear-Malad(hydrologic unit)

Lower Bear(hydrologic accounting unit)

Bear(hydrologic subregion)

Great Basin(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest(National Forest)

National Forest FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Utah Box Elder

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 009N 001W 19 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • SECTION SUBDIVISIONS NE 1/4

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Sand and Gravel, Construction Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Gravel Ore
Sand Ore

Analytical data

Result SEIVE ANALYSIS % PASSING BEFORE CRUSHING: GREATER THAN 3" 4.5 GREATER THAN 1 " 20.4 1" 100-AFTER CRUSHING: 1/2" #450.1 # 1034.4 #40 16.0 #200 2.8 LL 13.1 PI

Host and associated rocks

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

Nearby scientific data

(1) -111.99414, 41.5041

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Wasatch Mountains
Type of structure Local
Structure description Wasatch Mountains

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR
    Thickness 121.92M
    Length 762M
    Width 609.6M
    Depth to top 0M
    Depth to bottom 121.92M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Brigham City Area

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Owner-Operator
    Owner Waterfall-Jensen Sand And Gravel

Comments on the production information

  • NO PRODUCTION FIGURES AVAILABLE

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface
    Area 19.714HA
    Overall length 457.2M
    Overall width 457.2M

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    UTAH STATE DEPT. OF HIGHWAYS MATERIALS INVENTORY: BOX ELDER COUNTY, 1964

  • Production

    EVERTS, M., 1979. ON SITE INVESTIGATION: UTAH GEOL. AND MIN SURV.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAR-1979 Everts, Michael L. Bureau of Land Management

Beyond USGS

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