Pony Express Road Barrow Point

Past 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. Geologic structures
  10. Ore body information
  11. Controls for ore emplacement
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Land status
  15. Ownership information
  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 10087502
MRDS ID D007575
Record type Site
Current site name Pony Express Road Barrow Point

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.46941, 40.14077 (WGS84)
Elevation 1631
Relative position 26,000 FT S 55 W OF FAUST STATION

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Tooele(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Faust(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 008S 006W 12 NW OF NE OF E2 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • LOCATION GIVEN IS A REPRESENTATIVE POINT.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Sand and Gravel, Construction Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • DOLOMITE 80%, QUARTZ AND QUARTZITE 20%, SMALL COBBLES 40% PEBBLES 60%, SUBANGULAR TO SUBROUNDED, MODSORTING

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) Alluvium and colluvium

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Basin And Range-Rush Valley

Ore body information

  • General form WEDGE-LINEAR
    Thickness 1.52M
    Depth to top 0.3M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Lake Bar

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Osceola District

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Public Domain

Comments on the production information

  • PRODUCTION FIGURES NOT KNOWN

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface
    Area 1.179HA
    Overall length 218.24M
    Overall width 57.3M

Comments on the workings information

  • NO WORKINGS

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Analytical Data

    SRC.REF: 1966, UT. STATE DEPT. HWYS. MATERIALS INVENTORY TOOELE CO.

  • Deposit

    UT. DEPT. OF HWY, 1966, MATERIALS RESEARCH DIVISION: MATERIALS INVENTORY TOOELE CO.

  • Deposit

    TAFF, D.E., 1980, ON SITE INVESTIGATION: UTAH GEOL. AND MIN. SUR.

  • Deposit

    1966 DIREXPL UT STATE DEPT OF HIGHWAY

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit DOLOMITE AND QUARTZITE, 70% SILTY CLAY MATRIX, CACO3 COATINGS ON 90% OF GRAVEL, MOD. SORTING
Deposit UNDERLIES MAJOR PORTION OF QUADRANGLE, SEVERAL HORIZONS OF BRINE TO BE EXPECTED

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUN-1980 Taff, David E. Bureau of Land Management

Beyond USGS

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