Utah Dept Highways Pit # 09057

Occurrence in Garfield 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. Land status
  14. Ownership information
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10088062
MRDS ID DB00493
Record type Site
Current site name Utah Dept Highways Pit # 09057

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -110.57128, 37.88888 (WGS84)
Elevation 1451
Relative position 1.4 MILES ESE OF MAIDENWATER SPRING

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Garfield(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Black Table(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Hite Crossing(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Escalante(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper Lake Powell(hydrologic unit)

Upper Colorado-Dirty Devil(hydrologic accounting unit)

Upper Colorado-Dirty Devil(hydrologic subregion)

Upper Colorado(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 Garfield

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 033S 012E 34 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • SEC. SUB: SE 1/4 SE 1/4 SEC. 34

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Sand and Gravel, Construction Tertiary

Analytical data

Result SIEVE ANALYSIS: 95 % ON 1 IN., ON 1/2 IN., 38 % ON NO. 4
Result LIQUID LIMIT: 19 , PLASTICITY INDEX: NP, SWELL: AASHO CLASS: A-1-A, ABR 500 REV: 21 .

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Unconsolidated Deposit > Gravel
    Rock unit name Alluvial Deposits
    Rock description Alluvial Deposits
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Holocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Holocene

Nearby scientific data

(1) -110.57128, 37.88888

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Henry Mtns Basin
Type of structure Local
Structure description Henry Mtns Lacoliths

Ore body information

  • General form WEDGE
    Thickness 6.4M
    Length 437.44M
    Width 274.32M
    Depth to top 0M
    Depth to bottom 6.4M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Paleo Stream Channels

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Ownership information

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

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Analytical Data

    SRC.REF: UTAH DEPT HIGHWAYS, MATERIAL INVENTORY

  • Deposit

    UTAH DEPT. HIGHWAYS, MATERIALS INVENTORY PIUTE, WAYNE, GARFIELD & KANE COUNTIE

  • Reserve-Resource

    UTAH DEPT HIGHWAYS, 1966

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-NOV-1978 Dollar, Robert S. Bureau of Land Management

Beyond USGS

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