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Sterling Gravel Pit

Past Producer in Sanpete 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. Geologic structures
  11. Ore body information
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  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 10015520
MRDS ID DB01352
Record type Site
Current site name Sterling Gravel Pit
Related records 10154717

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -111.70688, 39.19163 (WGS84)
Elevation 1682
Relative position 0.8 MILE WEST OF STERLING

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Sanpete(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Sterling(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Manti(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Price(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

San Pitch(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 Sanpete

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 019S 002E 05 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • SEC. SUB.: SE 1/4 NE 1/4 NE 1/4 SEC. 05

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Sand and Gravel, Construction Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Gravel Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Unconsolidated Deposit > Gravel
    Rock unit name Slope Wash Collavium
    Rock description Slope Wash Collavium
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Holocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Holocene

Nearby scientific data

(1) -111.70688, 39.19163
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Sanpete Sevier Valley Anticline
Type of structure Local
Structure description Thrust Fault, Normal Faults

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR
    Thickness 5.49M
    Length 328.08M
    Width 274.32M
    Depth to top 0.61M
    Depth to bottom 6.1M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Land status

Ownership category Private

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface
    Area 1.254HA
    Overall length 150M
    Overall width 91.44M

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Production

    DOLLAR, R. S., 1978

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUL-1978 Dollar, Robert S. 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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