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Utah Dept. Highways Pit #16002

Occurrence in Piute county in Utah, United States with commodities Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken
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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. Controls for ore emplacement
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Land status
  14. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10015722
MRDS ID DB01868
Record type Site
Current site name Utah Dept. Highways Pit #16002

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.24411, 38.47941 (WGS84)
Elevation 1798
Relative position 8000 FT. NW OF TAYLORS POND

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Piute(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Marysvale(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Beaver(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Richfield(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

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 Piute

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 027S 003W 07 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • SEC. SUB.: SE 1/4 NW 1/4 SE 1/4 SEC. 07

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Sand and Gravel, Construction Primary
Stone, Crushed/Broken Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Gravel Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Pyroclastic Rock > Tuff
    Rock unit name Mt. Bell Knap Rhyolite
    Rock description Mt. Bell Knap Rhyolite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Holocene
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Unconsolidated Deposit > Gravel

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.24411, 38.47941
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form WEDGE
    Thickness 15.54M
    Length 710.84M
    Width 594.36M
    Depth to top 0M
    Depth to bottom 15.54M
  • General form WEDGE

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Debris Slope; Stream Channel

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Land status

Ownership category Private

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    UTAH DEPT. HIGHWAYS MATERIALS INVENTORY: PIUTE COUNTY

  • Reserve-Resource

    DOLLAR, R. S., 1978 , UTAH GEOL. AND MINERALOG. SURVEY ON-SITE INVESTIGATION

Reporter information

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

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