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Fayette Sand Deposit

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. Host and associated rocks
  8. Nearby scientific data
  9. Geologic structures
  10. Ore body information
  11. Controls for ore emplacement
  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. General comments
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10015538
MRDS ID DB01391
Record type Site
Current site name Fayette Sand Deposit
Related records 10301213

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -111.84439, 39.22774 (WGS84)
Elevation 1561
Relative position 0.6 MILE EAST OF FAYETTE AND 30 FT. WEST OF FAYETTE SPRINGS RESERVOIR

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Sanpete(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Gunnison(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Manti(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Price(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Middle Sevier(hydrologic unit)

Escalante Desert-Sevier Lake(hydrologic accounting unit)

Escalante Desert-Sevier Lake(hydrologic subregion)

Great Basin(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

BLM Administrative Area(land status)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Utah Sanpete

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 018S 001E 19,20 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • POINT LOCATION: SW 1/4 , NE 1/4 , SE 1/4 , SEC. 19

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Sand and Gravel, Construction Primary

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Unconsolidated Deposit
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Holocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Holocene

Nearby scientific data

(1) -111.84439, 39.22774
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Gunnison Plateau Syncline
Type of structure Local
Structure description Normal Faulting

Ore body information

  • Thickness 0.91M
    Length 874.88M
    Width 548.64M
    Depth to top 0M
    Depth to bottom 0.91M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Sand Matrix From The Cretaceous Price River Formation

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface
    Area 0.075HA
    Overall length 30M
    Overall width 27.43M

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    PRATT, A. P., AND CALLAGHAN, E., 1970 , LAND AND MINERAL RESOURCES OF SANPETE COUNTY, UTAH: UTAH GEOLOGICAL AND MINERALOGICAL SURVEY, BULLETIN 85

  • Reserve-Resource

    DOLLAR, R. S., 1978

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit DEPOSIT IS NOT CONTINUOUS BUT CONSISTS OF SCATTERED POCKETS AND HILLS OF FINE GRAINED SAND

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUL-1978 Dollar, Robert S. Bureau of Land Management

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