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Utah Dept. of Highways Pit No. 23094

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. 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. Workings at the site
  17. Links to other databases
  18. Bibliographic references
  19. General comments
  20. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10042124
MRDS ID M058417
Record type Site
Current site name Utah Dept. of Highways Pit No. 23094

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.25969, 40.2905 (WGS84)
Elevation 1667
Relative position 9,250 FT S 26 E OF WEST MERCUR

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Tooele(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Ophir(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 004W 23 NW OF NW OF NE Utah

Comments on the location information

  • INFO FROM LAND.ST :1975

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Sand and Gravel, Construction Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • MATERIAL IS OF CARBONATE COMPOSITION, MODERATELY WELL SORTED

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Quartz Ore
Clay Gangue

Analytical data

Result SIEVE ANALYSIS BEFORE CRUSHING: 8 PERCENT OVER, 3 IN., 33 PERCENT OVER 1 IN. AFTER CRUSHING TO 1 IN. MAXIMUM (IN PERCENT PASSING): 1 IN. - 100, .5 IN - 63, NO. 4 - 34, NO. 8 - 26, NO. 50 - 15, NO. 200 - 9.5. LIQUID LIMIT - 25.6. SWELL - .015.

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Unconsolidated Deposit > Sand and Gravel
    Rock unit name Lake Bonneville Formation
    Rock description Lake Bonneville Formation
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Holocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Holocene

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.25969, 40.2905
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Basin And Range Faults
Type of structure Local
Structure description West Mercur Fault

Ore body information

  • General form WEDGE
    Thickness 6.1M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Alluvial Fan

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Mercur District (West Dip Area)

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • UTAH STATE DEP. OF HIGHWAYS, 1966, P. 21.

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface
    Area 0.497HA
    Overall length 85M
    Overall width 64.01M

Comments on the workings information

  • AVERAGE DEPTH OF PIT 4 YD., PIT IS FLOORED BY SILT

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    UTAH DEPT. OF HIGHWAYS, 1966, MATERIALS INVENTORY, TOOELE CO.

  • Deposit

    KRUPICKA, D.C., 1980, ON SITE INVESTIGATION: UGMS.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit ANGULAR TO SUBROUNDED CARBONATE PEBBLES AND COBBLES WITH OCCASIONAL BOULDER SIZED MATERIAL. SILT AND CLAY INTERBEDDED.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-APR-1980 Krupicka, Daniel C. (Tripp, Bryce T.) Utah Geological and Mineral Survey

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