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Danish Reservoir Gravel Pit

Past Producer in Millard 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. Workings at the site
  16. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. General comments
  19. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10087030
MRDS ID D004480
Record type Site
Current site name Danish Reservoir Gravel Pit
Alternate or previous names Cove Fort Gravel Pit # 13
Related records 10275709

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.70023, 38.62329 (WGS84)
Elevation 1731
Relative position 3,000 FEET NNW OF DANISH RESERVOIR

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Millard(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Cinder Crater(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Richfield(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Richfield(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Beaver Bottoms-Upper Beaver(hydrologic unit)

Escalante Desert-Sevier Lake(hydrologic accounting unit)

Escalante Desert-Sevier 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 Millard

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 025S 008W 24 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • SW 1/4, SW 1/4, NE 1/4

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Sand and Gravel, Construction Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Quartzite Ore
Clay Gangue

Host and associated rocks

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

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.70023, 38.62329
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form BLANKET
    Thickness 3.05M
    Length 3218.6M
    Width 182.88M
    Depth to top 0.3M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • River Terrace

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Black Rock Road

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface
    Area 0.644HA
    Overall length 120M
    Overall width 73.15M

Comments on the workings information

  • AVERAGE DEPTH 1 YD

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    STEGEN, R.J., 1979, UTAH GEOL. & MINERAL SURVEY: ON-SITE INVESTIGATION

  • Production

    STEGEN R, 1979

  • Reserve-Resource

    THIS REVIEW

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit SUBANGULAR TO ROUNDED, EQUANT, TABULAR AND PROLATE; INTERBEDDED SAND AND SILT

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUL-1979 Stegan, Ralph J. Bureau of Land Management
Updater 01-JUL-1985 Shubat, Michael A. U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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