Utah Dept. Highways Pit #20044

Past Producer in Sanpete 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. 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. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10088251
MRDS ID DB01363
Record type Site
Current site name Utah Dept. Highways Pit #20044

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -111.68188, 39.22052 (WGS84)
Elevation 1670
Relative position 3/4 MILE EAST OF GUNNISON RES.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Sanpete(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Sterling(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Manti(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Price(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

San Pitch(hydrologic unit)

Escalante Desert-Sevier Lake(hydrologic accounting unit)

Escalante Desert-Sevier Lake(hydrologic subregion)

Great Basin(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Utah Sanpete

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 018S 002E 27 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • SECTION SUBDIVISION: SE 1/4 SE 1/4 NW 1/4 SEC 27

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Sand and Gravel, Construction Primary

Analytical data

Result SIEVE ANALYSIS: 60.8 % ON 1 IN., 43.1 % ON NO. 4
Result LIQUID LIMIT: 31.5
Result PLASTICITY INDEX: 6.0
Result SWELL: 1.1
Result AASHO CLASS: A-1-6 .

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Unconsolidated Deposit
    Rock unit name Talus Colluvium
    Rock description Talus Colluvium
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Holocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Holocene

Nearby scientific data

(1) -111.68188, 39.22052

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Sanpete Sevier Valley Anticline
Type of structure Local
Structure description Normal Faults, Thrust Fault

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR
    Thickness 6.4M
    Length 164.04M
    Width 91.44M
    Depth to top 0M
    Depth to bottom 6.4M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Royal B. Brown

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface
    Area 0.251HA
    Overall length 100M
    Overall width 27.43M

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Analytical Data

    SRC.REF: UTAH DEPT. HIGHWAYS 1966

  • Deposit

    UTAH DEPT. HIGHWAYS, 1966 , MATERIALS INVENTORY, SANPETE AND SEVIER COUNTIES

  • Production

    DOLLAR, R. S., 1978

Reporter information

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

Beyond USGS

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