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Utah Dept. Highways Pit No. 08047

Occurrence in Emery 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. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Land status
  15. Ownership information
  16. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10071437
MRDS ID W014823
Record type Site
Current site name Utah Dept. Highways Pit No. 08047

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -110.42517, 38.91941 (WGS84)
Elevation 1341
Relative position .5 MILES SOUTHEAST OF MOUTH OF SPOTTED WOLF CANYON

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Emery(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Spotted Wolf Canyon(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

San Rafael Desert(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Salina(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

San Rafael(hydrologic unit)

Lower Green(hydrologic accounting unit)

Lower Green(hydrologic subregion)

Upper Colorado(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 Emery

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 022S 014E 07 Utah

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Sand and Gravel, Construction Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chert Ore
Jasper Ore
Limestone Ore
Sandstone Ore

Analytical data

Result A.A.S.H.O. CLASSIFICATION = A-1-B, LIQUID LIMIT = 17.8, PLASTICITY INDEX = N.P., SWELL = .010, ABRASION 500 REV. = 38.0, SIEVE ANALYSIS - BEFORE CRUSHING, PERCENT RETAINED ON SCREEN: 3 INCH = 0.0% 1 INCH = 10.8%
Result AFTER CRUSHING, PERCENT PASSING SCREEN: 1 INCH = 100%, 1/2 INCH = 89.1%, NO. 4 = 64.3, NO. 10 = 53.7%, NO. 40 = 44.8%, NO. 200 = 21.6%

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Unconsolidated Deposit > Gravel
    Rock unit name Gravely Soils
    Rock description Gravely Soils
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Holocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Holocene

Nearby scientific data

(1) -110.42517, 38.91941
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description San Rafael Swell
Type of structure Local
Structure description East San Rafael Monocline

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR - BLANKET
    Thickness 3.05M
    Length 304.8M
    Width 182.88M
    Depth to top 1.52M
    Depth to bottom 4.57M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Non-metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name San Rafael Desert Area

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Utah Department Of Highways

Comments on the workings information

  • NO GRAVEL HAS BEEN REMOVED FROM DEPOSIT

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    UTAH DEPT. HIGHWAYS, 1965, MATERIALS INVENTORY

  • Deposit

    1967 DIREXPL UTAH DEPT. HIGHWAYS

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-FEB-1977 Mc Carthy, Blair M. Bureau of Land Management

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