Utah Dept. Highways Pit 10011

Past Producer in Grand 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. Workings at the site
  14. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10078707
MRDS ID W027229
Record type Site
Current site name Utah Dept. Highways Pit 10011

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -109.39681, 38.93915 (WGS84)
Elevation 1343
Relative position APPROX. 1.95 MILES WEST - SOUTHWEST OF CISCO, UTAH

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Grand(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

White House(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Moab(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Moab(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Westwater Canyon(hydrologic unit)

Upper Colorado-Dolores(hydrologic accounting unit)

Upper Colorado-Dolores(hydrologic subregion)

Upper Colorado(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Utah Grand

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 021S 023E 32 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • SECTION SUBDIVISIONS: NW 1/4 SW 1/4 NE 1/4 OF SEC 32

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Sand and Gravel, Construction Primary

Analytical data

Result SIEVE ANALYSIS BEFORE CRUSHING, RETAINED ON 3 INCH SIEVE 3.8
Result RETAINED ON 1 INCH 13.8 % AFTER CRUSHING 100 % PASSING 1 INCH, 52 % PASSED # 4 , 38.1 % PASSED # 10 , 30.8 % PASSED # 40 , 19.4 % PASSED # 200
Result LIQUID LIMIT 20.4
Result PLASTICITY INDEX 3.7
Result SWELL .010 %
Result A.S.H.O. CLASSIFICATION A-1-B
Result ABRASION AFTER 500 REV. 36.3

Host and associated rocks

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

Nearby scientific data

(1) -109.39681, 38.93915

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form BLANKET
    Thickness 1.22M
    Length 152.4M
    Width 91.44M
    Depth to top 0M
    Depth to bottom 1.22M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Thompson

Land status

Ownership category State

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface
    Area 0.771HA
    Overall length 134.11M
    Overall width 60.96M

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Analytical Data

    SRC.REF: UTAH DEPARTMENT HIGHWAYS, 1965

  • Deposit

    UTAH DEPARTMENT OF HIGHWAYS, 1966, MATERIALS INVENTORY OF GRAND COUNTY: UTAH DEPARTMENT OF HIGHWAYS

  • Reserve-Resource

    UTAH DEPT. HIGHWAYS, 1965

Reporter information

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

Beyond USGS

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