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Utah Dept. of Highways Gravel Pits #14072

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. 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 10087042
MRDS ID D004508
Record type Site
Current site name Utah Dept. of Highways Gravel Pits #14072

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.55274, 39.38634 (WGS84)
Elevation 1417
Relative position 2.5 MILES NNE OF DELTA

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Millard(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Delta NE(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Delta(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Delta(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 016S 006W 32 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • NUMEROUS WORKINGS W 1/2 SEC. 32

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Sand and Gravel, Construction Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • GOOD TO FAIR GRAVEL

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Quartzite Ore
Sandstone Ore
Clay Gangue

Analytical data

Result SIEVE ANALYSIS:1":100
Result NO. 4:77.5
Result NO. 10:67.2
Result NO. 40:54.2
Result NO. 200:9.6
Result LIQUID LIMIT:17.1
Result PLASTICITY INDEX:N.P.
Result SWELL:.025

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) -112.55274, 39.38634
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form BLANKET
    Thickness 1.83M
    Depth to top 0.91M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • River Terrace

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Land status

Ownership category Private

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • CUMULATIVE PRODUCTION FIGURE EXCEEDS HIGHWAY DEPT. ESTIMATE OF RESERVES

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface
    Area 45.151HA
    Overall length 1000M
    Overall width 548.64M

Comments on the workings information

  • AV. DEPTH 2 YDS; WORKINGS ARE NUMEROUS; FIGURES GIVEN ARE FOR EXTENT OF DISTURBED AREA; ADJACENT DISTURBED AREA TO THE SOUTH IS 800 YDS X 200 YDS X 7 YDS

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Analytical Data

    SRC.REF: UTAH DEPT. OF HIGHWAYS 1966 MATERIALS SURVEY-MILLARD CO.

  • Deposit

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

  • Deposit

    1966 DIREXPL UTAH HIGHWAY DEPT

  • Production

    STEGEN, R.J., 1979

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit SUB-ROUNDED TO WELL-ROUNDED PEBBLES; EQUANT, TABULAR, & PROLATE SHAPES; ABUNDANT INTERBEDS OF SAND, SILT, AND CLAY.

Reporter information

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

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