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Unidentified Occurrence

Past Producer in Salt Lake 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. 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. Mining district
  14. Land status
  15. Ownership information
  16. Workings at the site
  17. Links to other databases
  18. Bibliographic references
  19. General comments
  20. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10041952
MRDS ID M058017
Record type Site
Current site name Unidentified Occurrence

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -111.95969, 40.67383 (WGS84)
Elevation 1321
Relative position 3,000 FT SOUTH 40 DEG., EAST OF VALLEY JR. HIGH SCHOOL

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Salt Lake(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Salt Lake City South(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Salt Lake City(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Salt Lake City(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Jordan(hydrologic unit)

Jordan(hydrologic accounting unit)

Great Salt Lake(hydrologic subregion)

Great Basin(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Utah Salt Lake

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 002S 001W 04 NE OF NE OF SW Utah

Comments on the location information

  • LOCATION IS A REPRESENTATIVE POINT. ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1977)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Sand and Gravel, Construction Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Limestone Ore
Quartzite Ore
Sandstone Ore

Analytical data

Result SIEVE ANALYSIS 1 IN., 100.0%
Result 3/4 IN., 88.5%
Result 1/2 IN., 64.3%
Result NO. 4, 20.1%
Result NO. 10, 11.5%
Result NO. 200, 2.1%

Host and associated rocks

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

Nearby scientific data

(1) -111.95969, 40.67383
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form BLANKET
    Depth to bottom 2.74M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Lake Bonneville Shoreline

Comments on the geologic information

  • LAKE BONNEVILLE SHORELINE GRAVEL

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Taylorville Area

Land status

Ownership category State

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner State Of Utah
    Home office Utah

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface
    Area 1.672HA
    Overall length 200M
    Overall width 91.44M

Comments on the workings information

  • THE AREA NOTED IS ONE QUARTER OF THE ORIGINAL SIKE, OTHER THREE-QUARTERS IS DOVELOPED

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    UTAH DEPARTMENT OF HIGHWAYS, 1964, MATERIAL INVENTORY, SALT LAKE COUNTY

  • Deposit

    SOMMER, S.N. 1981, ON SITE INVESTIGATION: UTAH GEOL AND SURVEY

  • Production

    SOMMER, S.N., 1981.

  • Reserve-Resource

    UTAH STATE DEPARMENT OF HIGHWAYS, 1964, P. 13

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit THE PIT COMPRISES. THE TWO PITS NUMBERS 18074 AND 18075 OF UTAH DEPARTMENT OF HIGHWAYS ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT; 3 FIELD OBSERV
Deposit GOOD SORTED, EQUANT, SUDROURDED COBBLES WITH 40% CLASTS.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUN-1981 Sommer, Steven N. (Tripp, Bryce T.) Utah Geological and Mineral Survey

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