Puddle Valley Gravel

Past Producer 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 10012235
MRDS ID D007745
Record type Site
Current site name Puddle Valley Gravel

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.9175, 40.99854 (WGS84)
Elevation 1338
Relative position 25,500 FT NE OF BERTAGNOLE WELL

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Tooele(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Puddle Valley Knolls(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Tooele(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Tooele(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Northern Great Salt Lake Desert(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 003N;003N 010W;009W 13,16,32,19,20,29 SW OF NE OF NE Utah

Comments on the location information

  • ALSO SEC 32, T3N., R9W. AND SECS. 5, 8, 10, 17, 20, 29, T2N, R10W

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Sand and Gravel, Construction Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Limestone Ore

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) -112.9175, 40.99854

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form WEDGE, BLANKET, IRREGULAR
    Length 8046.5M
    Width 804.65M
    Depth to top 0M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Foot Of Mountains

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Puddle Valley

Land status

Ownership category Federal

Comments on the production information

  • PRODUCTION FIGURES UNKNOWN

Comments on the workings information

  • SMALL WORKING

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    DOELLING, H.H., 1964, GEOLOGY OF THE NORTHERN LAKESIDE MOUNTAINS AND THE GRASSY MOUNTAINS AND VICINITY, TOOELE AND BOX ELDER COUNTIES, UTAH: PH.D. THESIS, UNIVERSITY OF UTAH

  • Deposit

    1964 GEOLMAP UNIV. OF UTAH PH.D THESI

  • Production

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

  • Reserve-Resource

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

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit SUBROUND TO SUBANGULAR CLASTS TO BOULDER SIZES.

Reporter information

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

Beyond USGS

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