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Tintic Junction Gravel Pit2

Past Producer in Juab 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. Materials information
  8. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  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. General comments
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10012629
MRDS ID D008357
Record type Site
Current site name Tintic Junction Gravel Pit2

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.13301, 39.91328 (WGS84)
Elevation 1853
Relative position 1,000 FEET WEST OF SWANSEA MINE

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Juab(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Tintic Junction(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)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Utah Juab

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 010S 003W 36 NW OF SW NW Utah

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Sand and Gravel, Construction Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • POORLY SORTED, AN OCCASSIONAL BOULDERS ALSO PRESENT

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Sand Ore

Host and associated rocks

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

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.13301, 39.91328
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form WEDGE
    Thickness 2.44M
    Length 182.88M
    Width 39.62M
    Depth to top 0M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Mai N Tintic District

Land status

Ownership category Private

Comments on the production information

  • PRODUCTION FIGURES NOT AVAILABLE

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface
    Area 0.159HA
    Overall length 60M
    Overall width 36.58M

Comments on the workings information

  • AVERAGE DEPTH 1 YD

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    STEGEN, R.J. 1979, ON SITE INVESTIGATION: UTAH GEOL. AND MINERAL SURVEY.

  • Deposit

    UTAH STATE DEPT OF HIGHWAYS, 1965, MATERIALS INVENTORY, JUAB COUNTY

  • Deposit

    1964 GEOLMAT MORRIS, H.T., BULL. 1142-

  • Production

    STEGEN, R.J. 1979, ON SITE INVESTIGATION: UT. GEOL. AND MIN. SURV.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit COMMODY IS SUBANGULAR TO SUBROUNDED, PREDOMINATELY EQUANT IN SHAPE.

Reporter information

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

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

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