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Rush Valley No. 1 Gravel Pits

Past Producer in Tooele 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. Host and associated rocks
  8. Nearby scientific data
  9. Geologic structures
  10. Ore body information
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mining district
  13. Land status
  14. Workings at the site
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10012148
MRDS ID D007590
Record type Site
Current site name Rush Valley No. 1 Gravel Pits

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.21663, 40.22077 (WGS84)
Elevation 1577
Relative position 11,100 FT. SW OF FIVEMILE PASS

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Tooele(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Fivemile Pass(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Rush Valley(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Tooele(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Rush-Tooele Valleys(hydrologic unit)

Great Salt Lake(hydrologic accounting unit)

Great Salt 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 Tooele

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 007S 003W 07 SW OF NE OF SE Utah

Comments on the location information

  • LOCATION IS TO REPRESENTATIVE POINT

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Sand and Gravel, Construction Primary

Host and associated rocks

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

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.21663, 40.22077
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Tooele Arch

Ore body information

  • General form BLANKET

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Osceola District

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Comments on the production information

  • NO PRODUCTION FIGURES AVAILABLE

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface
    Area 0.535HA
    Overall length 320M
    Overall width 18.29M

Comments on the workings information

  • FOUR PITS: NORTH PIT 77 YDS X 29 YDS X 4 FT. DEEP, NE PIT, 21 YDS X 15 YDS X 2 FT. DEEP, CENTRAL PIT, 31 YDS X 10 YDS X 3 FT. DEEP, SOUTH PIT, 114 YDS X 31 YDS X 6 FT. DEEP.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    TRIPP, B.T., 1981. ON SITE INVESTIGATION: UTAH GEOL. AND MIN. SURV.

  • Deposit

    DISBROW, A.E., 1957. PRELIM. GEOL. MAP OF THE FIVEMILE PASS: U.S.G.S. MAP MF-131.

  • Deposit

    1957 GEOLMAP DISBROW, A.E. MF-13

  • Production

    TRIPP, B.T., 1981. ON SITE INVESTIGATION: UTAH GEOL. AND MIN. SURV.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-FEB-1981 Tripp, Bryce T. Bureau of Land Management

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