Utah Dept. of Highways Pit #14068

Past Producer in Millard county in Utah, United States with commodity Volcanic Materials
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. Controls for ore emplacement
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Land status
  13. Ownership information
  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 10087068
MRDS ID D004575
Record type Site
Current site name Utah Dept. of Highways Pit #14068

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.47886, 39.41384 (WGS84)
Elevation 1433
Relative position 8.2 MILES WNW OF OAK CITY

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Millard(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Strong(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)

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 016S 005W 24 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • NE 1/4, SW 1/4, NE 1/4

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Volcanic Materials Primary

Analytical data

Result SIEVE ANALYSIS: 73":0
Result 71":6.5
Result 1":93.5
Result #4:88.5
Result #10:83.1
Result #40:56.9
Result #200:24.1
Result LIQUID LIMIT: 27.0
Result PLASTICITY INDEX: N.P.
Result SWELL: 0
Result A.A.S.H.O. CLASSIFICATION: A-2-4

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Pyroclastic Rock > Tuff
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Holocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Holocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Holocene
  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Mafic Volcanic Rock > Basalt
    Rock unit name Basalt
    Rock description Basalt
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Mafic Volcanic Rock > Basalt
    Rock unit name Basalt
    Rock description Basalt

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.47886, 39.41384

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form BLANKET
    Thickness 6.1M
    Depth to top 0M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Talus

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Land status

Ownership category State

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner U.S. Bureau Of Land Management

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface
    Area 1.171HA
    Overall length 280M
    Overall width 45.72M

Comments on the workings information

  • AVG DEPTH 4 YDS

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Analytical Data

    SRC.REF: UTAH DEPT OF HIGHWAYS MATERIALS INVENTORY OF MILLARD COUNTY

  • Deposit

    UTAH DEPT OF HIGHWAYS MATERIAL & RESEARCH DIVISION-SECTION MILLARD COUNTY MATERIAL INVENTOR

  • Deposit

    1966 DIREXPL UTAH DEPT OF HIGHWAYS MATERIAL INVENTOR

  • Production

    STEGAN, 1979

  • Reserve-Resource

    UTAH DEPT. OF HIGHWAYS MATERIAL INVENTORY OF MILLARD CO.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit VERY ANGULAR TO ANGULAR-EQUANT W/SOME TABULAR - NUMEROUS BOULDERS, DEPOSIT ADJACENT TO SEMICONSOLIDATED TUFFACEOUS MATERIAL OF PROBABLE TERTIARY AGE

Reporter information

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

Beyond USGS

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