Utah Dept. of Highways Pit 23154

Past Producer in Tooele county in Utah, United States with commodity Sand and Gravel, Construction
Sections on this page
  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. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mining district
  13. Land status
  14. Ownership information
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. General comments
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10041896
MRDS ID M057926
Record type Site
Current site name Utah Dept. of Highways Pit 23154

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -113.96974, 40.0966 (WGS84)
Elevation 1582
Relative position APPROX. 6600 FT. NORTH OF THE INTERSECTION OF THE IBAPAH ROAD AND PONY EXPRESS CANYON

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Tooele(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Ibapah(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Wildcat Mountain(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Tooele(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Southern Great Salt Lake Desert(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 008S 019W 27 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • NE SW OF SE

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Sand and Gravel, Construction Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Limestone Ore

Analytical data

Result SIEVE ANALYSIS: BEFORE CRUSHING, GREATER THAN 3 IN, 0 PERCENT
Result GREATER THAN 1 IN., 17 PERCENT. THE SAMPLE WAS A 1-3 FT. CUT.

Host and associated rocks

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

Nearby scientific data

(1) -113.96974, 40.0966

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form WEDGE
    Thickness 3.66M
    Depth to top 0.3M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Deep Creek Valley Area

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner U.S. Bureau Of Land Management

Comments on the production information

  • PRODUCTION DATA UNKNOWN

Comments on the workings information

  • TWO SMALL SAND AND GRAVEL PITS, PIT A IS APPROX. 300 FT. BY 150 FT., PIT B IS 170 FT. BY 100 FT. THE TWO PITS ARE APPROX. 500 FT. APART.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Analytical Data

    SRC.REF: UT. DEPT. OF HWYS., 1966, MATERIALS INVENTORY: TOOELE COUNTY

  • Deposit

    MESSENGER, H.M. III, 1981, ON-SITE INVESTIGATION: UTAH GEOL. AND MINERAL SURVEY

  • Deposit

    UTAH DEPT. OF HWYS., 1966, MATERIALS INVENTORY: TOOELE COUNTY

  • Deposit

    1966 DIREXPL UTAH DEPT. OF HIGHWAY

  • Production

    MESSENGER, H.M., III, 1981, ON-SITE INVESTIGATION: UTAH GEOL. AND MINERAL SURVEY.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit IN THE NORTHERN OF TWO SMALL PITS, A 15 FT. SEQVENCE OF MODERATELY TO WELL SORTED SANDS, SILTS, AND GRAVELS IS EXPOSED. IN THE SOUTHERN PIT, A TWO TO FOUR FT. THICK GRAVEL LAYER CAPS SANDS AND SILTS.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-APR-1981 Messenger, Harold M. III Bureau of Land Management

Beyond USGS

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