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Ut. Dept of Hwys Gravel Pit No. 23031

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

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10041894
MRDS ID M057924
Record type Site
Current site name Ut. Dept of Hwys Gravel Pit No. 23031

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.46387, 40.42661 (WGS84)
Elevation 1600
Relative position 4.6 MILES NORTH OF SAINT JOHN, UTAH

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Tooele(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

South Mountain(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

ST(Federal land areas administered by ST)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Utah Tooele

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 004S 006W 36 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • SE SE OF NE

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Sand and Gravel, Construction Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • MOSTLY CARBONATE MATERIAL, WITH SOME QUARTZITES; MODEVATELY SORTED, WITH ABUNDANT SILT AND CLAY INTERBEDDING.

Alteration

  • (Local) Water Rounding And Sorting

Analytical data

Result SIEVE ANALYSIS: BEFORE CRUSHING, OPERC. OVER 3 IN, 2% 1 IN/PERCENT PASSING AFTER CRUSHING TO 1 IN MAX: 1 IN=98%, 1/2 IN=-, NO. 4=95%, NO. 10=94%, NO. 40=93%, NO. 200=52.0% LIQ. LIMIT=22.0, SWELL=0.30.

Host and associated rocks

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

Nearby scientific data

(1) Alluvium and colluvium
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Economic information

Geologic structures

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

Ore body information

  • General form LINEAR
    Thickness 18.29M
    Depth to top 0.15M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Lake Spit

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Rush Valley Area

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner M. A. Russell

Comments on the production information

  • PRODUCTION FIGURES NOT KNOWN.

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface
    Area 0.293HA
    Overall length 70M
    Overall width 45.72M

Comments on the workings information

  • AV. DEPTH 2 YDS., WORKINGS ARE FLOORED BY CLAYS.

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 DIREYPL UT STATE DEPT HWY

  • Production

    KRUPICKA D.C., 1980 UT GEOL. AND MIN. SURVEY, ON-SITE INVEST.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit SUB-ANGULAR TO SUB-ROUNDED MATERIAL OF PEBBLE AND COBBLE SIZE, WITH HEAVY SILT AND CLAY PRESENT.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAR-1980 Krupicka, Daniel C. 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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