Utah Dept. Highways Pit #20054

Occurrence 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. Materials information
  8. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Geologic structures
  11. Ore body information
  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 10088254
MRDS ID DB01371
Record type Site
Current site name Utah Dept. Highways Pit #20054

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -111.87884, 39.27802 (WGS84)
Elevation 1561
Relative position 4.3 MILES NW OF FAYETTE

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Sanpete(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Hells Kitchen Canyon SW(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Manti(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Price(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Middle Sevier(hydrologic unit)

Escalante Desert-Sevier Lake(hydrologic accounting unit)

Escalante Desert-Sevier 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 Sanpete

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 018S 001W 01 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • SECTION SUBDIVISION: CENTER NW 1/4 NW 1/4 SEC. 01

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Sand and Gravel, Construction Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Gravel Ore

Analytical data

Result SEIVE ANALYSIS: 100 % ON 1 IN., 73.7 % ON 1/2 IN., 43.5 % ON NO. 4
Result LIQUID LIMIT: 22.0
Result PLASTICITY INDEX: 1.0
Result SWELL: 0.008
Result ABR. 500 REV.: 34.4

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Unconsolidated Deposit > Alluvium
    Rock unit name Goldens Ranch Form
    Rock description Goldens Ranch Form
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene

Nearby scientific data

(1) -111.87884, 39.27802

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Gunnison Plateau Syncline
Type of structure Local
Structure description Normal Faulting

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR
    Thickness 4.57M
    Length 328.08M
    Width 274.32M
    Depth to top 0M
    Depth to bottom 4.57M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Non-metallic
Deposit size Medium
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. HIGHWAY, 1966

  • Deposit

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

  • Deposit

    PRATT, A. P., AND CALLAGHAN, E., 1970 , LAND AND MINERAL RESOURCES OF SANPETE COUNTY, UTAH: UTAH GEOL. AND MINERALOG. SURVEY BULL.

  • Reserve-Resource

    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.