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Nephi Gravel Pit #6

Producer in Juab 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. Geologic structures
  11. Ore body information
  12. Controls for ore emplacement
  13. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  14. Mining district
  15. Land status
  16. Workings at the site
  17. Links to other databases
  18. Bibliographic references
  19. General comments
  20. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10087480
MRDS ID D007521
Record type Site
Current site name Nephi Gravel Pit #6
Related records 10227005

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -111.85522, 39.65884 (WGS84)
Elevation 1600
Relative position 19,800 FEET SSW OF NEPHI HIGH SCHOOL

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Juab(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Nephi(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Nephi(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Price(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Utah Lake(hydrologic unit)

Jordan(hydrologic accounting unit)

Great Salt Lake(hydrologic subregion)

Great Basin(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Utah Juab

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 013S 001E 29 SW OF NW OF NW Utah

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Sand and Gravel, Construction Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • POORLY SORTED, INTERBEDDED SAND, SILT

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Quartzite Ore
Sand Ore
Clay Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Host and associated rocks

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

Nearby scientific data

(1) -111.85522, 39.65884
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Sevier Orogenic Belt

Ore body information

  • General form WEDGE
    Thickness 2.13M
    Length 6437.2M
    Width 914.4M
    Depth to top 0.61M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Alluvial Fan

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Nephi

Land status

Ownership category Private

Comments on the production information

  • PRODUCTION FIGURES UNKNOWN

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface
    Area 1.212HA
    Overall length 120M
    Overall width 91.44M

Comments on the workings information

  • AVERAGE DEPTH 1.5 YDS

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    UT. DEPT. OF HWYS., 1967, MATERIALS INV., JUAB CO

  • Production

    STEGEN, R.J., 1979, ON SITE INVESTIGATION, UT. GEOL AND MINER SURVEY

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit COMMODITY IS SUBANGULAR TO ROUNDED, PREDOMINATELY EQUANT

Reporter information

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

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