Brush Wellman Road Borrow Pit #1

Past Producer in Millard 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. Controls for ore emplacement
  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. General comments
  20. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10011524
MRDS ID D006483
Record type Site
Current site name Brush Wellman Road Borrow Pit #1

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.57108, 39.50328 (WGS84)
Elevation 1428
Relative position 5.10 MILES SSW OF CCC RESERVOIR

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Millard(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Rain Lake(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Lynndyl(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

BLM Administrative Area(land status)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Utah Millard

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 015S 006W 19 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • NE 1/4, SW 1/4, NW 1/4, SEC. 19

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Sand and Gravel, Construction Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • POOR GRAVEL MATERIAL; ABUNDANT CLAY & SILT INTERBEDDED.

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) -112.57108, 39.50328

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form BLANKET
    Depth to top 0.61M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Lake Batz

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Brush Wellman Road

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Ownership information

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

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • AREA IS MAINLY CLAY & SILT DEPOSITS.

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface
    Area 2.676HA
    Overall length 200M
    Overall width 146.3M

Comments on the workings information

  • AV. DEPTH 2 YDS.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    UTAH DEPT. OF HIGHWAYS, MATERIALS & RESEARCH DIVISION, MATERIALS INVENTORY SECTION: MILLARD COUNTY

  • Production

    STEGEN, R.J., 1979, ON SITE INVESTIGATION: UTAH GEO. AND MIN. SUR.

  • Reserve-Resource

    STEGAN R.J., 1980, ON SITE INVESTIGATION: UTAH GEOLOGICAL AND MINERAL SUR.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit SUB-ROUNDED TO WELL-ROUNDED PEBBLES. MOSTLY EQUANT & TABULAR.

Reporter information

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

Beyond USGS

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