Hickman Knolls Gravel

Occurrence in Tooele 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. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. General comments
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10012156
MRDS ID D007606
Record type Site
Current site name Hickman Knolls Gravel

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.86776, 40.38855 (WGS84)
Elevation 1417
Relative position 4.6 MILES WEST OF HICKMAN KNOLLS

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Tooele(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Hickman Knolls(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Rush Valley(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Tooele(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Skull Valley(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 005S 009W 16 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • LOCATION GIVEN IS A REPRESENTATIVE POINT

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Sand and Gravel, Construction Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Quartzite Ore
Sandstone Ore
Calcite Gangue
Chert 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

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.86776, 40.38855

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form BLANKET-WEDGE
    Length 13679.05M
    Width 3218.6M
    Depth to top 0M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Flank Of Mountain Range

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Cedar Mtns

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    DOELLING, H.H., 1980, ON SITE INVESTIGATION: UTAH GEOL. AND MIN. SURVEY

  • Deposit

    UT. DEPT. OF HWYS., 1966, MATERIALS INVENTORY: TOOELE CO

  • Reserve-Resource

    DOELLING, H.H., 1980, UGMS ON SITE INVESTIGATION

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit LACUSTRINE TERRACES AND ALLUVIAL FANS.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JAN-1980 Doelling, Hellmut H. Bureau of Land Management

Beyond USGS

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