White Hill Stone Quarry #2

Past Producer in Sanpete county in Utah, United States with commodity Stone, Dimension
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. Workings at the site
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. General comments
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10088259
MRDS ID DB01383
Record type Site
Current site name White Hill Stone Quarry #2

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -111.54049, 39.40496 (WGS84)
Elevation 1859
Relative position 1.5 MILES SE PIGEON HOLLOW JUNCTION

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Sanpete(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Chester(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 016S 003E 24 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • SEC. SUB.: CENTER SW 1/4 SW 1/4 SEC. 24

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Stone, Dimension Primary

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone
    Rock unit name Green River Formation
    Rock description Green River Formation
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene

Nearby scientific data

(1) Alluvium and colluvium

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Wasatch Monocline

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR
    Strike N 40 DEG W
    Dip 15 DEG SW
    Thickness 5.49M
    Length 60.96M
    Depth to top 1.22M
    Depth to bottom 6.71M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Lake Basin

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Land status

Ownership category Private

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface
    Area 0.088HA
    Overall length 60.96M
    Overall width 15.24M

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Production

    DOLLAR, R. S., 1978

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit LOW TO MEDIUM QUALITY FOR DIMENSION STONE

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.