Utah Dept. of Highways Pit 23156

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. Host and associated rocks
  8. Nearby scientific data
  9. Ore body information
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Mining district
  12. Land status
  13. Ownership information
  14. Workings at the site
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10041903
MRDS ID M057940
Record type Site
Current site name Utah Dept. of Highways Pit 23156

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -113.97502, 40.04243 (WGS84)
Elevation 1622
Relative position AT THE INTERSECTION OF A DIRT ROAD LEADING SE, .5 MI. FROM THE IBAPAH ROAD, AND THE PONY EXPRESS-OV. STAGE RT.

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 009S 019W 15 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • NE OF NE OF SW VERY CLOSE TO THE CENTER OF THE SECTION

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Sand and Gravel, Construction Primary

Analytical data

Result SIEVE ANALYSIS: BEFORE CRUSHING, GREATER THAN 3 IN., 0 PERCENT
Result GREATER THAN 1 IN., 5 PERCENT. THE SAMPLE WAS TAKEN FROM A 6-9 FT. CUT.

Host and associated rocks

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

Nearby scientific data

(1) -113.97502, 40.04243

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form WEDGE
    Thickness 1.83M
    Depth to top 0.61M

Comments on the geologic information

  • THE GENERAL COMPOSITION OF THE SAND AND GRAVEL IS ESTIMATED AT 60 PERCENT QTZITE, 20 PERCENT PEGMATITE, 10 PERCENT LIMESTONE, AND 10 PERCENT DOLOMITE.

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

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface
    Area 0.438HA
    Overall length 60.96M
    Overall width 76.2M

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: UT. GEOL. AND MINERAL SURVEY.

Reporter information

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

Beyond USGS

Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.