Utah Dept of Highways Gravel Pit 23122

Producer in Tooele 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. Land status
  12. Ownership information
  13. Workings at the site
  14. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10087446
MRDS ID D007377
Record type Site
Current site name Utah Dept of Highways Gravel Pit 23122

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.37413, 40.18772 (WGS84)
Elevation 1573
Relative position 5752 FT NE OF FAUST

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Tooele(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Vernon NE(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Rush Valley(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Tooele(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Rush-Tooele Valleys(hydrologic unit)

Great Salt Lake(hydrologic accounting unit)

Great Salt 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 Tooele

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 007S 005W 23,26 SW OF SW OF SE Utah

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Sand and Gravel, Construction Primary

Analytical data

Result SIEVE ANALYSIS: BEFORE CRUSHING-OPERC G.T. 3 IN, 13 PERC G.T. 1 IN. PERCENT PASSING AFTER CRUSHING TO 1 IN MAX-1 IN = 100 PERC, 1/2 IN = 92 PERC, NO. 4 = 65 PERC, NO. 8 = 45 PERC, NO. 50 = 14 PERC, NO. 200 = 81 PERC. LIQUID LIMIT = 27.7 SWELL = .006

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) -112.37413, 40.18772

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form LINNEAR/WEDGE
    Thickness 1.83M
    Depth to top 0.3M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Public Domain

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface
    Overall length 143.26M
    Overall width 102.11M

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    UT. DEPT OF HWYS 1966 MATERIALS INVENTORY; TOOELE CO

  • Deposit

    JOHNSON, E.A., 1980, ON SITE INVESTIGATION: UTAH GEOL. AND MIN. SUR.

  • Deposit

    1966 DIREXPL UT STATE DEPT HWY

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUN-1980 Johnson, Elizabeth A. Bureau of Land Management

Beyond USGS

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