Kanosh Gravel Pit No. 16

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

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10087038
MRDS ID D004499
Record type Site
Current site name Kanosh Gravel Pit No. 16

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.4669, 38.81163 (WGS84)
Elevation 1494
Relative position 5000 FT NE OF BLACK ROCK VOLCANO

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Millard(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Kanosh(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Richfield(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Richfield(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Lower Sevier(hydrologic unit)

Escalante Desert-Sevier Lake(hydrologic accounting unit)

Escalante Desert-Sevier Lake(hydrologic subregion)

Great Basin(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Utah Millard

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 023S 005W 13 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • SE 1/4 SE 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
    Rock description Alluvium
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Holocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Holocene

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.4669, 38.81163

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form BLANKET
    Thickness 1.83M
    Length 457.2M
    Width 106.68M
    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 Small
Significant No

Land status

Ownership category Private

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface
    Area 0.318HA
    Overall length 75M
    Overall width 54.86M

Comments on the workings information

  • AVG DEPTH 1 YD. ADJACENT PIT 20 YDS X 30 YDS X 1 YD

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    UTAH DEPT. OF HIGHWAYS, MATERIALS AND RESEARCH DIVISION, MATERIALS INVENTORY SECTION: MILLARD COUNTY 1966

  • Production

    STEGEN R. J., 1979 GEOLOGIST

  • Reserve-Resource

    STEGEN R.J. 1979 GEOLOGIST

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit ANGULAR TO WELL ROUNDED-EQUANT TO TABULAR INTERBEDDED SAND, SILT & CLAY

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUL-1979 Stegan, Ralph J. Bureau of Land Management

Beyond USGS

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