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Ut. Dept. of Hwys, Gravel Pit No. 23116

Past Producer in Tooele 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. Alteration
  9. Host and associated rocks
  10. Nearby scientific data
  11. Geologic structures
  12. Ore body information
  13. Controls for ore emplacement
  14. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  15. Mining district
  16. Land status
  17. Ownership information
  18. Workings at the site
  19. Links to other databases
  20. Bibliographic references
  21. General comments
  22. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10041882
MRDS ID M057908
Record type Site
Current site name Ut. Dept. of Hwys, Gravel Pit No. 23116

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.4133, 40.29577 (WGS84)
Elevation 1539
Relative position 1.5 MILES SOUTH SOUTHWEST OF CLOVER TIE SIDING

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Tooele(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Saint John(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Rush Valley(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Tooele(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Rush-Tooele Valleys(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 006S 005W 16 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • SW NW OF SE SEC. 16.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Sand and Gravel, Construction Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • MOSTLY CARBONATE PEBBLE MATERIAL; MODERATELY SORTED. ABUNDANT SILT.

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Clay Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Water Rounding

Analytical data

Result SIEVE ANALYSIS: BEFORE CRUSHING, 0% 3 IN, 0% 1 IN/AFTER CRUSHING TO 1 IN MAX: 1 IN = 100%, 1/2 IN = 81%, NO. 4 = 39%, NO. 8 = 32%, NO. 50 = 19%, NO. 200 = 11.4%
Result LIQUID LIMIT = 28.5 SWELL = .034

Host and associated rocks

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

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.4133, 40.29577
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Basin & Range - Stansbury Mtns.

Ore body information

  • General form BLANKET
    Thickness 1.52M
    Length 546.8M
    Width 274.32M
    Depth to top 0.3M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Beach

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Rush Valley Area

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner E. A. Stookey

Comments on the production information

  • PRODUCTION FIGURES NOT KNOWN.

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface
    Area 0.134HA
    Overall length 80M
    Overall width 18.29M

Comments on the workings information

  • AV. DEPTH 2 YARDS.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Analytical Data

    SRC.REF: UT STATE DEPT HWYS, MATERIALS INVENTORY, TOOELE CO., 1966

  • Deposit

    UT. DEPT OF HWYS, 1966, MATERIALS INVENTORY; TOOELE CO, U

  • Deposit

    1966 DIREXPL UTAH STATE DEPT. OF HIGHWAY

  • Production

    KRUPICKA, D.C., 1980, ON SITE INVESTIGATION: UTAH GEOL. AND MIN. SURV.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit SUB-ANGULAR TO SUB-ROUNDED CARBONATE PEBBLE MATERIAL, WITH ABUNDANT SILT; CLAY INTERBEDDING. MARGINAL GRAVEL.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-APR-1980 Krupicka, Daniel C. Bureau of Land Management

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